Favorite Book

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-A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole

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Ni han, sir.

Shut Up and Deal is surprisingly good as far as poker literature goes.

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[Bluffoon]

Hemmingway is the master.

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo is a close second.

Also

All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren

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A Suitable Boy is a Dickensian romance set in India during the 1950s.

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Dickensian in what sense? Long boring paid by the word garbage with pink politics?

[tdarko]

have you read The Things They Carried? that and Johnny Got His Gun are tough to beat IMO.

[James282]

Literature: Heart of Darkness and Catch-22

Persuasive writing: Culture Jam

Just for fun: The Wheel of Time series

-James

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i thought white noise was kinda meh, but that may be the fault of having to read it in a week for a lit class more than the book itself.

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I would also put white noise in the meh category.
-James

[OrangeHeat]

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Heart of Darkness

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I think this is an excellent choice.

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A Suitable Boy is a Dickensian romance set in India during the 1950s.

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Dickensian in what sense? Long boring paid by the word garbage with pink politics?

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I meant long with a very large cast of characters from different social classes.

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I was a big Rand fan when I was younger, but I think I've mostly grown out of that.

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Apparently not.

Unless you mean that you don't like payed by the word garbage anymore...[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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[hoyaboy1]

I'd have to think a bit to come up with my favorite books, but an author that hasn't been mentioned who I think is very underrated is Anthony Burgess (most famous for Clockwork Orange, but a lot of his other stuff, such as The Wanting Seed, is also very good).