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smirnoff

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Re: Classics
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2014, 05:12:38 PM »
Very cool. re you tempted now to explore the rest of his novels? All three of them. Not too daunting. :)

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Re: Classics
« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2014, 04:22:10 AM »
Oh yeah. As for Augustus, historical biographies aren't really my thing, I don't think, but I've already ordered Butcher's Crossing from my local library, and I'm planning a Western double bill with Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian :)
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Re: Classics
« Reply #22 on: November 26, 2014, 04:50:29 AM »
Based on the mentions from you guys, I'll bump these to the top of my reading list:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Hopefully I'll also soon get to American Gods, A Wrinkle in Time, Foundation and Empire, The Gods Themselves, The Day of the Triffids and all the other recommendations  8)

First up: His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

 

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