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Sergio Saavedra
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I've just read The Turn of the Screw.Wow, such a great ghost story, but much more. I really love the way the story can be interpreted in different ways.
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John Leach
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
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Robbie Parry
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HULK HOGAN: MY LIFE OUTSIDE THE RING
I enjoyed his autobiography (released in 2002), but although there is some wrestling stuff here, it's about his personal life a lot more. Quite a few interesting tidbits in here and some interesting details about many things.
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Andrew Hess
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50) "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
Unrepentant 15-year-old thug indulges in orgy of rape, vandalism, and murder; is sent to prison to be reformed; reconditioned through chemicals and therapy; and sent back into the world.
If you've seen the movie, you've read the book; the movie is one of the most faithful adaptations of a book I've ever run in to. And as Robert says up-thread, hard to not hear Malcolm McDowell narrating.
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Andrew Hess
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I'm now half-way thru my Year of 100 Books, tho still a couple of weeks away from that point in the calendar.
Rough glance thru the list so far, I've included about 15 Banned Classics (one of my goals in this Year is to read more of these), a couple of trilogies, a handful of juvenile fiction, and only a few non-fiction. I need to include more non-fiction and less trash (tho I'm still going to work my way thru the rest of the Bond books).
Thanks again to Bradley Krawchuk for starting me on this journey!
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Derek Cavin
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Test of the Twins - Weis & Hickman
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Derek Cavin
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Again, Andrew, good luck.
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John Byrne
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ELMER GANTRY - Sinclair LewisHaving tried a while back to read the novel, but finding the opening chapters kind of hard slogging, last week after watching the movie again, I wondered if I would fare any better if I picked up the book right after the movie ends. (The movie represents about 70 pages out of the middle of the 400 page book.) This has proven successful, and I am moving along at a good pace this time. Curious note: on the paperback version I'm reading, the title and author are displayed on the cover thusly: SINCLAIR LEWIS
ELMER GANTRY …rather reversing the roles!
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Robert Kowalewski II
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The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, I'll probably follow this up with the last two books in the Tales of the Primal Land series by Brian Lumley, Tarra Khash: Hrossak! & Sorcery in Shad.
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D. Alan Allred
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The Kill Order by James Dashner.It's the prequel to The Maze Runner trilogy.
I highly recommend these books. Especially the first book, The Maze Runner. I never had so much interest in a book of which I had no idea what was happening all the way through!
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Andrew Hess
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51) "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama, read by Barack Obama
Written in 1995 while at the University of Chicago Law School (before he became a state Senator), this memoir is both a personal account of Obama growing up and a reflection on the state of being an African American in the United States. Extremely poignant.
The audio book was produced in 2005, just after Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention made him a politician to watch (the speech is included at the end). A true treat to hear him narrate such a personal account; he turns out to be a natural, and even won a Grammy for this! (How many US Presidents can say that?)
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Derek Cavin
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Shadow of a Doubt - William Coughlin
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