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    "Battlefield Earth" - L. Ron Hubbard

    I'm a Sci-Fi junkie, mostly short stories, but I fell in love with "Battlefield Earth" many years ago. My poor paperback copy gave up the ghost after many readings and moves and was relegated to the heat stove about 2-months ago much to my sadness. A few weeks later while perusing a local thrift store I found a hardback copy in pristine condition that I happily paid either 50˘ or a dollar USD for.
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    Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
    Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

    I like D.H. Lawrence, and I got a great deal on the books ($5 each).

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    "No Man is an Island" Thomas Merton -- been feelin' a little spiritual lately.
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    I bought two books recently: The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek (forgive me if I have spelled his named wrong) and The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

    I bought The Good Soldier Svejk after wanting it for a very long time, but never deciding to buy it. I first heard of it somewhere where it said that, if Joseph Heller hadn't read it, he never would've wrote Catch-22.

    The Pilgrim's Progress, on the other hand, is simply something that I have wanted to read for awhile; I have read the first few pages on the internet, and it seems good.
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    The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
    The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
    The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid




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    Quote Originally Posted by cgrillo View Post
    I bought two books recently: The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek (forgive me if I have spelled his named wrong) and The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

    I bought The Good Soldier Svejk after wanting it for a very long time, but never deciding to buy it. I first heard of it somewhere where it said that, if Joseph Heller hadn't read it, he never would've wrote Catch-22.
    Oh, The Good Soldier Švejk is great novel! I have only about 90 pages left of 760 and I'm going to write a review on my blog here.
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    Seneca's Essays and Dialogues (Oxford World Classics) - I wanted to learn more about stoicism from 'the horse's mouth'. I thought this might be a tough, boring (if worthy!) read, instead it's an easy, exciting (as well as worthy!) read.

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    Oxford Romeo and Juliet. I wanted an individual copy of R&J to read outside of my home; the RSC is a bit too big to be carrying around.
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    Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Berničres
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White
    The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer
    Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
    Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
    House of Meetings - Martin Amis
    How the Dead Live - Will Self
    Liver - Will Self
    The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
    A Death in the Sanchez Family - Oscar Lewis
    Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
    The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
    The Wasp Factory -Iain Banks
    God's Grace - Bernard Malamud
    The Quiet American - Graham Greene
    Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
    The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
    "He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
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    Love All the People - Bill Hicks
    Big fan of his comedy and it was cheap.

    The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
    Big fan of Fry as usual and I love his novels.

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    The Hunt For Red October

    The last book I bought was Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October. I read the first few chapters and got bored, but it's very well-written and anyone in the Navy would probably enjoy it. It's a widely liked book, and it is good, but it is just not my type of literature. I bought it because I thought I would enjoy it.

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    The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
    Mars by Ben Bova

    As strange as it might sound I got them for research for a short story I've had running around in my head for a while.
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    Infinite Jest, thanks to this forum. Lit Nit should abscond some type of nudge fee to Barnes & Noble, eh?
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    Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

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    'The Gathering Night' (Margaret Elphinstone)

    She ran a one-day writing course I attended a fortnight ago so I did the courteous thing and bought a signed copy of her latest book - and I'll admit it is a very good read.

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