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Recent content by Bacardi Jim

  1. Bacardi Jim

    Recommend Books to a Reading Noob.

    You already know my suggestions, JMovie. ;)
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    F. Paul Wilson

    Thanks. Guess I kinda blew it. C'est la vie. Oh well, the thread will get buried quickly enough, I guess.
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    F. Paul Wilson

    I know I'm a newbie here, and I searched back and couldn't find a thread devoted to this author. Is it okay to start a new thread for one of my recent favorite authors? Or has it been done to death and I just didn't find it?
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    I picked up the five out-of-print books in the series through online purchases and spent less than $22 altogether, including shipping. But I got lucky and got a couple of them from the same seller, saving on shipping.
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    Avatars

    If you read my Top Ten Novels thread, then you should understand the avatar. Simply the funniest books I have ever read.
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    You won't have much luck finding older Wilson. Only The Tomb, a couple of his medical thrillers, and the other Repairman Jack novels are still in print. The rest of the Adversary Cycle went out of print a while back. Except.... The entire Adversary Cycle series has recently been...
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #1 Watership Down - Richard Adams I didn't discover this classic until I was in my twenties, And when I did finally read it, I was stunned and perplexed to discover that it is advertised and marketed as a children's book. While on the surface it may seem a simple and gentle adventure...
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #2 Boys and Girls Together - William Goldman Even if you think you've never heard of William Goldman, you are quite familiar with his work. He wrote the books and screenplays of The Princess Bride, Magic, and Marathon Man and the screenplays for Misery, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #3 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Again... do I need to explain? The first three books of the "trilogy" are simply the funniest novels ever written in the history of the English language.
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #4 The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov I don't really think I need to explain or justify this choice, do I? If there are any questions as to its inclusion, I'll come back and edit in comments later. But that doesn't seem likely to be necessary. I will mention that I am speaking...
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #5 Dancing Aztecs - Donald Westlake Despite almost never cracking the bestseller lists, Donald Westlake is one of the most successful American fiction authors of the last 40 years. He is primarily known for his "comic caper" novels, particularly his Dortmunder series, which tell...
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    Hi hi

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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    On that note, I think I'll leave the Top Five for a bit later. Huger pangs call. ;)
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    A Newbie's Introduction: My Top 10 Novels

    #6 Neuromancer - William Gibson If you are a sci-fi reader, it is alomost impossible not to have this book in your pantheon. Neuromancer is the novel that changed sci-fi forever, dragging the "New Wave" artistry of Ellison kicking and screaming into the computer age. It is the book that...
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