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Post by msdemos on Jan 11, 2021 16:20:23 GMT
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Post by cooly44 on Jan 12, 2021 1:26:39 GMT
Andersonville by McKinlay Kantor.
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Post by Morgana on Jan 12, 2021 8:57:49 GMT
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
All have stayed with me for different reasons - The Road for the message of hope among the dystopian horror.
Salem's Lot because I read it when I was young and I can't forget how scared I was or forget the scene where the vampire is scratching at the boy's window - it scared me to death.
The Persian Boy for it's scope and grasp of history. It also gave me a crush on Alexander the Great which I have to this day.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 12, 2021 16:26:11 GMT
"Love in the Times of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the one that comes immediately to mind.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Jan 12, 2021 17:04:43 GMT
'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks.
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Post by Marv on Jan 12, 2021 19:32:37 GMT
  Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King because of the overall vibe of the thing. The way it follows the baby boomer generation from the 50's thru Vietnam and until they start dying off of old age. Not being of that generation myself i still felt it spoke to anyone. I am Legend by Richard Matheson because of several great quotes, and the way that we follow our protagonist to the point when he realizes he is this worlds antagonist...without really having done anything wrong. It's quite a moment when Robert Neville realizes he is the stuff of nightmares in this new world.
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Post by gw on Jan 13, 2021 4:06:41 GMT
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson has stuck in my head for a long time since it had a very interesting plot and was what got me into reading sci fi novels as an adult.
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Post by mmexis on Jan 13, 2021 5:04:56 GMT
Salem's lot because I read it as a teen and it scared the crap out of me. Re-read, not so much.
The Talisman - same reason as above, but have not reread it.
The 5 people you meet in heaven - I read it on a student recommendation and have since recommended it to reluctant student readers because of length and its message of "you never know what impact your actions will have".
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2021 17:43:42 GMT
Fight Club
The Westing Game
Fahrenheit
Indian in a cupboard
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Post by mrdanwest on Jan 17, 2021 14:00:34 GMT
Libra by Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian by Conrad McCarthy
American Pastoral but Philip Roth
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Post by pippinmaniac on Jan 19, 2021 3:37:46 GMT
It is still "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I first read it in 1981 when I was a junior in high school.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jan 22, 2021 21:54:12 GMT
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 22, 2021 23:07:08 GMT
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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