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The Best Thing We've Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« on: December 02, 2009, 12:35:39 PM »
smirnoff
Robert Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress



oneaprilday
Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It



Junior
Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World



Clovis8
Alan Weisman's The World Without Us



'Noke
David Mamet's play American Buffalo


pixote
Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident



Saltine
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian



alexarch
Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys



ferris
David McCullough's John Adams



Colleen
Kathryn Stockett's The Help



Dave the Viewer
Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself



Junior
James Joyce's Dubliners



FifthCityMuse
Niel Gaiman's The Sandman



exskiman
David Simon's Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets



edgar00
Graham Fraser's Sorry, I Don't Speak French



philip918
César Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2009, 12:36:37 PM »
What's yours? Post it and I'll add it to the list.
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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 01:39:39 PM »

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2009, 01:43:52 PM »
American Buffalo, if that counts.
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2009, 03:36:30 PM »


Looks/sounds interesting. I may try to get my hands on a copy.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2009, 03:39:27 PM »


Looks/sounds interesting. I may try to get my hands on a copy.

One of the most interesting books I have read in some time. Discovery made a series on it also which is quite good.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2009, 03:57:16 PM »
whats it about clovis?
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2009, 03:58:50 PM »
whats it about clovis?

It's a non-fiction book looking at what would happen to the earth if every human was gone.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2009, 04:00:38 PM »
whats it about clovis?

It's a non-fiction book looking at what would happen to the earth if every human was gone.

Sounds good. Ill try and check it out.
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

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Re: The Best Thing I Read All Year {2009 Edition}
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2009, 05:46:34 PM »
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