Arkham House
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Mon Aug-06-07 04:42 PM
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Name ten books you think should be better known... |
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...any books, old favorites, cult classics, out-of-prints you'd like to see back, books that made you laugh, cry, think. We all have 'em...here are ten of mine..
Fiction:
Calamity Town, by Ellery Queen E Pluribus Unicorn, Theodore Sturgeon The Red Right Hand, Joel Townsley Rogers The Fabulous Clipjoint, Fredric Brown The Dragon Waiting, John Ford
Non-Fiction:
Voltaire's Bastards, John Saul A Carnival of Buncombe, H.L. Mencken Delight, J.B. Priestly Five Days in London, John Lukacs Discriminations, Dwight MacDonald
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yellowdogintexas
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Mon Aug-06-07 10:28 PM
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The Joyous Season, Patrick Dennis Mila 18 Leon Uris Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Eight Cousins and Rose In Bloom Louisa May Alcott A Song of Ice and Fire...series, not yet completed.. guess that is five
non fiction, that is harder because I don't read much non fiction.
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Richardo
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Mon Aug-06-07 10:40 PM
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Non-fiction: Boss: Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, by Mike Royko The Story of English Blind into Baghdad, by James Farrows Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi Isaac's Storm, by Erik Larsen
Fiction The Annotated Alice, by Martin Gardner My Ten Years in a Quandry, and How They Grew, by Robert Benchley The Planets, by James Boylan Roughing It, by Mark Twain Thank You for Smoking, by Christopher Buckley
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Fire Walk With Me
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Mon Aug-06-07 11:43 PM
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3. I don't know if I can come up with ten... |
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The Collected Harlan Ellison The complete works of Theodore Sturgeon Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany The complete works of Nikolai Gogol
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