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I want to take a break from playing [insert gambling card game here], I'm looking for some good fiction reccomendations (contemporary or "old"). I don't like fantasy and I don't like mass produced writers like that Dan Brown fellow. Come on OOT, let's hear it. TY in advance.

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The Quincunx by Charles Palliser

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i am in the middle of Pillars of the Earth. it is excellent so far.

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A book I got for Christmas last year was Kite Runner. Very good read, especially since it educated me - in part - about a culture of which I was pretty ignorant.

I know you asked for fiction recommendations, but in any reading suggestions thread I'll throw this one in: Sperm Wars by Dr. Robin Baker. Evolutionary biology for the layman.

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Collected Fictions - Jose Luis Borges

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A book I got for Christmas last year was Kite Runner. Very good read, especially since it educated me - in part - about a culture of which I was pretty ignorant.

I know you asked for fiction recommendations, but in any reading suggestions thread I'll throw this one in: Sperm Wars by Dr. Robin Baker. Evolutionary biology for the layman.

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FWIW, Kite Runner is my favorite book of all time if any of you have read this and can think of similar suggestions. Absolutely amazing. ZZzzZZzzZZzz.

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This just occurred to me, and I haven't thought about it much, but if you enjoyed Kite Runner, I think you'd like Cormac McCarthy's stuff, specifically The Crossing, although all of his stuff is very good.

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Whenever I take a break from pinochle I like to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Love in the Time of Cholera is his best IMO.

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Whenever I take a break from pinochle I like to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Love in the Time of Cholera is his best IMO.

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read it in high school. writing = too flowery, not enough action for MM.

ty for the reccomendation though.

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Hmmm...well about some Thomas Pynchon or Don Delillo then?