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Enraged American Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:44 PM
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5 favorite fiction writers. 5 favorite fiction novels
1. Fyodor Dosteovsky
2. Joseph Conrad
3. Graham Greene
4. E.M. Forster
5. William S. Burroughs

1. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
2. "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky
3. "Lord Jim" by Conrad
4. "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
5. "The Wild Ass's Skin" by Honore de Balzac
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:46 PM
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1. Dang..I don't read alot of fiction....so I'll say
I tried to think of this...but all I read is biographies, social commentary, and history related books....sorry! All I can think of id "A star Called Henry" And "Micro serfs"
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:47 PM
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2. oh wait
Catcher in the rye and Misswyoming too!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:48 PM
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3. my my
george Orwell 1984 and Animal Farm (Ok so the former is suposed
to be fiction not prophecy)

Isaac Asimor, I Robot

Brothers Karamazov, Fiodr Dostoyevsky

Men of Corn, Miguel Angel Asturias

Ben Bova, Jupiter

Weiss and Hickman the first Dragonlance trilogy, yes the whole trilogy
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dobak Donating Member (808 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:49 PM
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4. ok
1. George Orwell
2. Michael Chabon
3. Chuck Palahniuk
4. Jim Thompson
5. Ernest Hemingway


1. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon)
2. Fight Club (Palahniuk)
3. 1984 (Orwell)
4. Survivor (Palahniuk)
5. Killer Inside Me (Thompson)
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theemu Donating Member (531 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:51 PM
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5. yikes
1. William Faulkner
2. Flannery O'Connor
3. Vladimir Nabokov
4. Haruki Murakami
5. Zadie Smith

1. Absalom Absalom by Faulkner
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Wise Blood by O'Connor
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami
5. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 07:53 PM
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6. okay!
Edited on Mon Sep-29-03 07:54 PM by curse10
1. Kurt Vonnegut
2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Charles Dickens
4. William Faulkner
5. Vikram Seth

1. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
2. Wuthering Heights, Bronte
3. David Copperfield, Dickens
4. Player Piano, Vonnegut
5. An Equal Music, Seth
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Enraged American Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:00 PM
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7. good choices everyone
we probably have better taste than freepers. congrats!
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TheReligiousLeft Donating Member (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:09 PM
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8. READ DAWN BY ELI WEISEL!!!!!
Authors
1. Eli Weisel
2. Voltaire
3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Toni Morrison
5. Dan Simmons

Books
1. Dawn (Eli Weisel) (Best book ever)
2. Candide (short story “The World as it is) (Voltaire)
3. The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
4. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
5. Endymion (Dan Simmons)
Extras
6. The Brothers Karamazov (Big D)
7. 1984
8. A Handmaiden’s Tale
9. Dune
10. Heart of Darkness
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Enraged American Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:09 PM
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9. kick n/t
.
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Seneca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:10 PM
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10. here goes
1. James Joyce
2. Jonathan Swift
3. John Updike
4. Willa Cather
5. Umberto Eco

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Gulliver's Travels
3. Rabbit Redux
4. My Antonia
5. The Name of the Rose
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:11 PM
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11. Okay...mine...
1. Thomas Pynchon
2. William S. Burroughs
3. Anthony Burgess
4. Vladimir Nabokov
5. Umberto Eco

1. Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
2. The Red Night Trilogy, Burroughs (I count them as one since they go together. Hope that's okay.)
3. The Name of the Rose, Eco
4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
5. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
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mndemocrat_29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:47 PM
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12. Here's Mine (In no particular order)
1. Charles Dickens
2. Jane Austen
3. Edith Wharton
4. The Bronte Sisters
5. J. K. Rowling (I know they're children's books, but I don't care)

1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
2. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
4. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 08:55 PM
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13. Good thing you didn't ask for 6.
Five I can do.
Dostoevsky, Dumas, Conrad, Stevenson, Twain.

Crime & Punishment, Gone With The Wind, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Scarlet Pimpernel, Wuthering Heights.
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dwckabal Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 09:08 PM
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14. let's see....
Authors (in no particular order):

Neil Gaiman
Frank Herbert
Isaac Asimov
Kurt Vonnegut
Anne Rice/Tom Robbins (tie--OK, not really, but I couldn't get rid of anyone else)

Books (again, in no particular order):

Dune (series)
Fast Sofa - Bruce Craven
Jitterbug Perfune - Tom Robbins
Choke - Chuck Palahuiak
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
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