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Classic Literature Discuss the classics like Poe, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson etc. Read them at Literature Vault.

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Old 12-14-2007, 08:55 AM   #16
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A Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley

Got to be the best science fiction novel ever written

In the same way as '1984' by Orwell some of the future prediction stuff is astonishing...
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Slaughterhouse Five...and most Vonnegut works

Crime and Punishment baby (that's 20th century, right?)

1984

Doors of Perception and Brave New World....Huxley

And finally one of the best books I have ever read...
East of Eden - Steinbeck Action
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Old 12-16-2007, 02:58 AM   #18
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throw in A Clockwork Orange...so good

so damn good
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Old 01-21-2008, 09:36 AM   #19
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SALINGER (pretty much anything)

Paulo Coelho - 11 minutes (must read)

Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (LOL)

Douglas Adams - A Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (not for everyone, but pretty genius)

Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being (amazing book)

(plus mka321-s list) Have fun
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Old 01-21-2008, 09:38 AM   #20
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Oh and I see no one has put in Orwell's Animal Farm. Also a must.
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These are a few Asian writers I've enjoyed: Mahasweta Devi, Weng Ming, Yasunari Kawabata, Khushwant Singh, Kobo Abe

African writers: Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Kobo Abe's Woman of the Dunes was excellent.

I'll Offer Crash (or anything else) by JG Ballard and The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
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