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This is probably the absolute worst place to post this, but given this is my home here at 2+2 I'm not about to post this anywhere else. I just finished a book and need a new one to read. It should preferably be a good one. Much love.

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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series

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be more specific, what kind of books do u like to read?

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On the Road (50th anni Original Scroll edition)- Jack Kerouac

holla

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Hell's Angels by that crazy dead dude.

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the Dirt by Motley Crue and Neil Strauss

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Non-fiction: Super Crunchers.
Fiction: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (the Showtime show based on this sort of sucks but the book and the sequel are both v good)

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ur a DFW fan i think right? have u read markson or saunders or antrim

raymond chandler is alwasy a good fallback

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I recommend any of the books in the Piers Anthony series "Incarnations of immortality"

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The Bible

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QF†

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Mike's Corner by Mike Gordon.

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Or take one of the books from my reading list:
-To Hell and Back: The Audie Murphy Autobiography
-Cobra II: The inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
-Tactics of the Crescent Moon
-Militant Tactics
-The Last Ridge: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division

Hopefully soon I can add "It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden"

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Or take one of the books from my reading list:
-To Hell and Back: The Audie Murphy Autobiography
-Cobra II: The inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
-Tactics of the Crescent Moon
-Militant Tactics
-The Last Ridge: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division

Hopefully soon I can add "It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden"

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Or take one of the books from my reading list:
-To Hell and Back: The Audie Murphy Autobiography
-Cobra II: The inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
-Tactics of the Crescent Moon
-Militant Tactics
-The Last Ridge: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division

Hopefully soon I can add "It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden"

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no pouting, he won the internet, he will win you too

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Oprah's book club!!!

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Go to the Classics section and find something that interests you.

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house of leaves by mark danielewski

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

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why so picky?

i recommend "the life and times of the thunderbolt kid" by Bill Bryson

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Memoirs of a Mangy Lover: Letters to and from Groucho Marx

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SciFi:
The Forge of God, Greg Bear
Ring World, Larry Niven

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ender's game orson scott card

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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
It is the best $5 I've ever spent on a book.

If that isn't your cuppa, then the Cussler books mentioned are great casual reading.

Or George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series.

Or... well it depends on taste.


edit: wow Rothko nailed it. It's been so long since I read it that it didn't leap to mind.

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moby dick

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ender's game orson scott card

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or maybe american gods or w/e

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Ender's Game is pretty great. Limesparks, could you possibly be more specific? I'm not familiar with any of those names you listed or their best works, but I'm interested. I can do some work on my own, but I need first names at least.

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The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe

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himself, if you've read ender's game then let me take you to the next level:

his dark materials philip pullman

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I suggest The Dark Tower series starting with <u>The Gunslinger</u>.. Or maybe <u>The Art of War </u>..

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I read that too rothko.

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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series

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My mom likes these books, she is always telling me that Id prolly be into them and Im like ya well Ill wait for the movie. Then that dude from texas starred in one of the movies and it sucked so hard.

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The Bible

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business data networks and telecommunications

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Ender's Game is pretty great. Limesparks, could you possibly be more specific? I'm not familiar with any of those names you listed or their best works, but I'm interested. I can do some work on my own, but I need first names at least.

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george saunders
he has a couple short story collections that are just phenomenal. lots of sad/absurd magic realism and black humor. he'd probably be my first recommendation for you if you've never read him. pynchon basically came out of hiding to write the blurb for this book so u really cant go wrong

donald antrim
the hundred brothers
jesus christ i wish i could read this book for the first time again. a hundred brothers together in one room for an insane violent family reunion. clever chaotic hilarity.

david markson
wittgensteins mistress
i think i heard about this from a DFW interview, its experimental fiction, short segments of an interior monologue from a woman who may be insane or may be the last person alive on earth. really beautiful and heartbreaking

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im reading "another day in the frontal lobe" right now about a female brain surgeon. pretty good so far... talks about the fraternity of surgeons, their tools, interesting cases. all that stuff.

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the Dirt by Motley Crue and Neil Strauss

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damn you, himself,

foucault's pendulum umberto eco

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Ender's Game is pretty great. Limesparks, could you possibly be more specific? I'm not familiar with any of those names you listed or their best works, but I'm interested. I can do some work on my own, but I need first names at least.

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The whole series is really good. The 3rd and 4th books are a little hard to slog through but the "Shadow" books more than make up for it.