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  1. unKeMPt

    Which Pulitzer winning novels have you read?

    In years deemed to have no novels worthy of the prize, no prize is given. Even in 1974, when those who nominated fictional work unanimously granted the prize to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the jury disagreed and, calling the work bloated and overwritten, gave no award that year. The...
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    Help! Book Recommendation

    I'd recommend Camus's The Stranger for a look at how society can indict an individual for not fitting into its image. Or Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for that matter.
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    100 Best Non Fiction

    If their fiction list is any indication, the Modern Library only includes American novels in its lists. Which would explain the exclusion of Wild Swans.
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    Suggestions: October 2006 Book of the Month

    I nominate: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Maybe this will finally get me to pick it off my book pile.
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    July Reads

    I know usually a moderator takes care of this thread but I love it so that I can't bear its absence at the end of the month... I can wait no longer... Sorry all! The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Things Fall...
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    Hellsing???

    The villain in the anime is just so nondescript...
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    top five on your TBR list?

    Libra -- Don DeLillo Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole The Master and the Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
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    Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

    Just started last night. It'll be a nice, quick read after The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, which I suppose was a rather fast-paced read for a 600-page hulk of a book.
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    New Pynchon novel!!!

    I didn't have any problems reading The Crying of Lot 49 within a single night. I would even go so far as to say it's compulsively readable. The others, however, are rather daunting. I've had Gravity's Rainbow on my shelf for a while.
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    Your Favorite 10 Films of the 90's?

    Off the top of my head L.A. Confidential Pulp Fiction Princess Mononoke Being John Malkovich Goodfellas Rushmore The Insider Legend of Drunken Master Fargo Dark City
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    Suggestions: September 2006 Book of the Month **"Banned Books" Only**

    Yep, same copy I just bought two weeks ago. I think that theoptimist, using clandestine methods, has obtained a copy of my to-read list. Seriously, every work you nominate I've bought just days before. Seriously.
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    Do you read much non-fiction?

    I find what sociology I've read really interesting (Habermas, Mead, C. Wright Mills, Durkheim) as well as some philosophy (Marx, Foucault, Sartre). I look forward to reading some Nietzsche and Kierkegaard soon as well. Otherwise, I don't really read non-fiction. There is, however, one...
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    Bill O'Reilly; The No Spin Zone

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpOSgT-osHk&search=o%27reilly%20franken That's the fullest account I could find. It is carried by a partisan media watchdog, so it's difficult to determine how much was edited out at the end and beginning (at least 35 minutes), but there you have it.
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    Bill O'Reilly; The No Spin Zone

    If you're looking for a fair, rather hard-hitting television journalist on this side of the Atlantic, the closest you'll probably come is Tim Russert.
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    Books of Book Lists

    I've read 28 of the books on the list, although I'd say roughly 150 more are on my to-read list.
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    Shocking poems & short stories

    Ooh, that's definitely on my to-read list.
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    I'm going to be crushed

    Mine has well over two hundred, but with the completion of The Sun Also Rises and Mother Night within the past two days, I suppose I just completed one percent of it. Well on my way!
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    The Best Character in Fiction?

    Mickey Sabbath of Sabbath's Theater
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    Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood

    I want to read it badly. In fact, I voted for it in last month's book discussion poll.
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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