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A Dirty Job: A Novel
Christopher Moore
HarperCollins, 2007
Perfection!
+ strange and funny
+ Death: Someone's Gotta Do it, Right?
+ My book group loved it
+ Sick and Twisted... Loved It!
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1998
Amazing novel by one of our greatest story tellers
+ Leaves You Stuffed but not Satisfied
+ A Fun Trip
This is one of the finest works by Murakami whose style is unsurpassed in modern literature.
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
Lamb
+ This book is great!
+ Awesome Book
Entertaining, provocative, fun to read. The story of Christ told in a very different and amusing fashion, still escaping sacrilege.
Have given several as gifts to friends who have also thoroughly enjoyed the book!
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Survivor: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2000
Great read
+ Stunning
+ Another victory for Chuck
+ Great Service
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The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
Vintage, 1991
Guaranteed to make you squirm.
+ Good enough to buy twice?
+ A classic that still packs a huge punch
+ Chilling. Great read.
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1999
Was it really an unfinished business????
+ One of the most important writers of the 20th century
+ What a wonderful nightmare!
+ great thinker, creative writer
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Roughneck
Jim Thompson
Vintage, 1998
One of the most enjoyable Thompson reads available!
+ How to become an author
+ Even Thompson couldn't make this up
+ His Life In His Own Words
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Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Frank Herbert
Ace Trade, 2005
One of my first loves!
+ Mesmerizing fantasy world created
+ The Greatest Sci-Fi Tale Ever Told
+ Gift
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North
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Dalkey Archive Press, 2007
The wildest of Celine's many wild rides
+ Chaos...punctuated by three dots
+ "A Writer For All Time"
+ The fall of Western Civilization conceived of as a journal entry...
+ Witness devastation
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Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
New Directions, 2006
The Finest Book About Humanity Ever Written
+ travel is useful
+ Bleak and yet hilarious
+ You Can't Ignore Genius
+ Razor Sharp
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The Plague
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
Find meaning in a meaningless existence / Camus is one cool cat
+ Tragically relevant
+ Camus ...interesting as always...
+ beautiful
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Picador, 2001
A world of its own
+ Comic history in the making
+ Masterful
+ The novel reads like a film
+ Well-written, but I see what many are saying . . .
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
ENJOY
+ A gripping, heart-rending read
+ The Kite Runner
+ I just came back from a trip to Afghanistan!!!
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Ask the Dust (P.S.)
John Fante
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Loved it
+ Hell with Hitler
+ Ask the Dust
+ Pretty great book; read it if you like bukowski
+ Good Read
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post office: A Novel
Charles Bukowski
Ecco, 2007
Bukowski was a funny guy!
+ Work Sucks
+ Love him or hate him... he's funny
+ Brilliant. Buy this book and borrow it to you friends.
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