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  1. 01-13-2009, 10:37 PM #91
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    Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. His best, I think, nice long book.
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  2. 01-13-2009, 10:40 PM #92
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    Quote Originally Posted by wron View Post
    Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. His best, I think, nice long book.
    Is it better than A Soldier of the Great War? That novel was godawfully bad, yet highly praised - is his style in that one better? I hear he is interested in magical realism in that text, yet his style in A Soldier was so bad, that I am skeptical about getting Winter's Tale.
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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald
    Looking for something funny Lamb or The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
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  4. 01-23-2009, 10:12 PM #94
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    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...one of the funniest books out there

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    A Separate Peace by John Knowles...though I'm not sure it hits the 300-page mark
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    Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.
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  6. 01-29-2009, 04:31 PM #96
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    John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
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  7. 01-29-2009, 04:56 PM #97
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    mark twain's "The adventureds of huckleberry finn" was pretty good.

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  8. 01-29-2009, 06:33 PM #98
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    Cool American novel over 300 pages ....

    V. by Thomas Pynchon. It's about alligators in the New York sewers. You'll love it!
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