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Old 01-01-2006, 06:35 PM
Paluka Paluka is offline
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Default Re: Here are some books I\'ve liked/disliked....Recommend me some new ones

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Anything by Dan Brown
Anything by John Grisham


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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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There's a tone here that makes me think that you think stuff like Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is obscure, underground literature.

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Okay, I have a few issues with this.

1) I was actually giving honest advice. I think looking through the amazon.com top 100 list would probably be a pretty good idea for this person because his tastes seem to coincide with a lot of other people. If he told me he really liked something weird or obscure I would have given other advice.

2) I don't think Catch 22 and Cuckoo's Nest are obscure or underground or something. They happen to be classics that a lot of people don't enjoy. For example, based on the OP's description of what he likes, I don't think he would enjoy them. The movie The Seven Samurai is neither obscure or underground, but I woudl not recommend it to someone who said "Recommend some movies for me, I really enjoyed Titanic and Old School but I don't enjoy movies that are slow paced".
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