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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:47 PM
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Name a famous book you've never read:
Me?

Jack Kerouac, On the Road.

Just never got around to it, I guess.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:48 PM
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1. Warren Piece. I don't even know who that fucker is.
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unsavedtrash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:51 PM
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5. lol
:spray: :rofl:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:51 PM
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6. Or how about Richard Brautiguinea Pig?
"Trout Fisting In America" is just one book I've always shied away from. Dunno why!
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:50 PM
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2. "Moby Dick"
Eh.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 08:03 PM
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18. Me either.
:boring:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 08:04 PM
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20. I did see the film with Gregory Peck
And that's as far as I'm getting to that book.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:50 PM
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3. To Kill A Mockingbird.
Edited on Tue Feb-20-07 07:51 PM by jonnyblitz
Although I did read a bio on Harper Lee last month.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:50 PM
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4. Moby Dick
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MassLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:11 PM
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35. LOVE Moby Dick!
Don't know if I could read it again, though.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:51 PM
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7. Any of the Harry Potter books
I started the first one and got bored.

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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:52 PM
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8. Catch 22
I mean, I *sorta* read it, then decided I didn't care, then decided to *really* give it a go, then forgot about it. So I guess I should say I don't really know if I did or not.

What was the question again? :freak:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:55 PM
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11. The movie was much better anyways.
:hi:

I heard you rule; is this true?
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:56 PM
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12. It's true!
I can also crush coconuts with my thighs. :thumbsup:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:58 PM
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15. No shit? Well, I'm 7'4" and I have the strength of ten men.
And a soul patch. :cry:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:08 PM
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31. .
:cry:

It's my favorite novel of all time.
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:53 PM
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9. I haven't read "Slaughterhouse - Five"
I have heard so many great things about it. I think I'll put it on my required reading list.

If you've read it, did you like it?

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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:56 PM
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Eh...not a big Vonnegut fan.
I can understand why he's so beloved, but sometimes he strikes me as precious.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:54 PM
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10. Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." I tried, though.
No can do.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:56 PM
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13. DaVinci Code.
I sometimes feel like Elaine in that Seinfeld episode with the English Patient.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:10 PM
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33. Promise me you'll never change.
That book will suck your soul out and sell it for tricks on 3rd Street. x(
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Porcupine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 01:23 AM
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45. Hey, I'm currently not reading that too.
I have a copy, I know where it is. I know everybody else has read it. So I'm reading other books twice to avoid it.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 07:56 PM
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14. War and Peace
Although I have read Anna Karenina. War and Peace is just so, well, LOOOONG
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 12:44 AM
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43. But it's so, well, GOOOOOOOD
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itsmesgd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 08:00 PM
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16. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It's staring at me from the bookcase
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:14 PM
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21. I suggest you read that one, though it wasn't easy for me. I tried to read it after working
the graveyard shift. It took a couple of readings for it to sink in. Great book!
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Porcupine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 01:27 AM
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46. Quality. Now you've read it. nt.
.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 08:01 PM
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17. Am currently reading _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ for a book club. nt
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MassLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:09 PM
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32. How do you like it?
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:14 PM
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37. Not far into it, but so far it's interesting. Well, a little slow, but
its historical significance makes it interesting.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 08:04 PM
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19. Catch-22
Edited on Tue Feb-20-07 08:05 PM by jane_pippin
I'm embarrassed to admit.

And Our Bodies, Ourselves which I probably should read but likely won't.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:15 PM
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22. It explains about your period and something called a "g-spot"
:shrug: :hi:
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:20 PM
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25.  If God wanted me to know about that stuff He'd
have given me eyes "down there."


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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:16 PM
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23. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series... EOM
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:18 PM
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24. El Amadís de Gaula
Tough it is near the top of my reading list.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:21 PM
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26. 1984
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:27 PM
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27. Heidi Fleiss' trick book
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:31 PM
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28. Just about EVERY New York Times best-seller.
Redstone
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malmapus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:43 PM
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29. Mein Kampf
Guess it's famous and have had no desire to read it.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 09:57 PM
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30. Gravity's Rainbow
Started it a couple times.

Maybe I should try again.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 12:10 AM
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40. It's worth it, but Pynchon can be emotionally remote.
With the possible exception of "mason & Dixon," Pynchon's stuff is a touch on the cold side.
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MassLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:11 PM
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34. In Cold Blood
After I saw "Capote," I really wanted to read this book. I hear it's great.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:12 PM
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36. "Are You There God? It's Me Margaret"
:)
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:33 PM
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38. Most of Hemingway's.
I think I have read only The Old Man and The Sea and that was years ago.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-20-07 10:42 PM
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39. anything by shakespeare.
the subject never came up in high school.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 12:12 AM
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41. The bible
:P
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 12:38 AM
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42. War and Peace, and all Dicken's writings....nt
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 12:45 AM
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44. Hmmmmm.... Fear and Loathing
Couldn't get into it.
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