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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
Signet, 2001
Bowden Demonstrates Masterful Writing
+ Horrifically good book
+ Amazing, Simply Amazing
+ Not Too Late to Read This Important Work
+ Well done
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Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Joel Osteen
FaithWords, 2007
An Absolute Must Read!
+ Great book!
+ For those of us who really believe - this is a must read!
+ A Great Deal of Value
+ Ignore The Scribes and Pharisees!
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Without Remorse
Tom Clancy
Berkley, 1994
few and far between
+ Excellent!Another splendid,mind-boggling novel from Clancy
+ Great Tom Clancy Backstory for Great Characters
+ Clancy at his best
+ John "Hannibal" Kelly
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Frighteningly Prophetic
+ Dystopia, i long for thee
+ Good Book
Brave New World / 0-06-092987-1
While "Brave New World" may lack the narrative punch of other dystopias such as "1984", I cannot help but feel that for sheer prophetic rightness, Huxley hits the nail on the head where others fail. Where Orwell sees an oppressive government that frightens and ...
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That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3)
C.S. Lewis
Scribner, 2003
Futurity Meets Creativity--The End of a Trilogy
+ Strong writing
+ A book that requires INTENSITY of THOUGHT (and time)
That Hideous Strength is the culmination of Lewis's stylized creativity and his realizable mythology. This final book (in his acclaimed "space trilogy") introduces readers to a brilliant mundaness--a setting where both nothing and everything could happen simultaneously. It is a sleepy, stubborn, ...
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Neal Stephenson
Harper Perennial, 2004
Just what I was looking for...
+ A fun way to learn some history
+ Nearly Perfect Reading!
+ Part 1 of a lengthy epic
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Avon, 2002
I would love to BS over martinis with this guy
+ Cryptonomicon
+ Funny, smart and geeky
+ Geekfest
+ This is in my top 3 books of all time
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Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2)
C.S. Lewis
Scribner, 2003
The best of the series
+ PERELANDRA
+ One of the most profound and satisfying works I've ever read
+ Lewis is a gift
+ An underappreciated classic of Science Fiction
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2007
Thoroughly Human
+ Good Book
+ lonely [and unfair] search for innerself
+ Great book for adventurous souls
+ Hacia rutas salvajes
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Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
Late Comer to a Good Book
+ Reqd reading in High School
+ One of the books I remembered most
+ Crap characters, excellent setting and premise
+ Outdated? Did we read the same book?
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Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck
Penguin, 2002
One of the most popular books in American Literature-and for good reason!
+ The Greatest 20th Century Novella?
+ Depression-era Greek Tragedy
+ easy, short, to the point
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The Testament
John Grisham
Delta, 2005
Lots of Action, Lots of Suspense in this Fine Thriller
+ Great Read
Seventy-eight-year-old, three times married, three times divorced eccentric bazillionaire Troy Phelan takes his own life by taking a flying leap from a tall building in front of witnesses, but as he considers his brood of six offspring little more than parasites, he leaves his eleven billion dollar ...
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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
"The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien
+ I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR".
+ Box set (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings)
+ Good Book
+ Great books but too descriptive
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Del Rey, 1996
Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More
+ perfect
+ Dreaming in Binary: you'll either love it or hate it
+ Valuing Fake Animals Above Fake Humans
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Shogun
James Clavell
Dell, 1976
A Classic Epic of Breathtaking Scope
+ What every Japan lover wishes for...
+ Great Read
+ Good stuff
+ Loosen the Jesses on the Falcon of Your Soul!
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