 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.97 Mesmerizing writer. I love his long one-sentence paragraphs. It is so rich I have to continually page back to pick up what I missed the first time.
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 | Smiley's People by John le Carre
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.35 Sequel to Tinker Tailor.
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 | Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Buy used from: $2.03 I was headed for the juvie hall until I found this book beside my mom's bed. It changed my life and turned me around before I fell off the cliff.
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 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 An unbelievably detailed world where everything is intricately connected to each other in ways that never cease to amaze me.
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 | Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles (Econo-Clad Hardcover)) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.36 Sequel to Dune.
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 | Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 3) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Herbert's writing is still going strong after this sequel to the sequel.
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 | Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.80 More amazing stories that seem just impossible to make up. My life-long dream is to meet Don Juan. If not him, then Carlos Castaneda.
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 | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $5.89 An epic story about Chuck Yeager and the Mercury program. I had to read it after seeing the movie and lo and behold, it was better.
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 | Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Buy used from: $0.01 The first WWIII techno-thriller. Inspired me to write my own.
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 | The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $0.01 Very verbose and long but the monsters and characters were riveting.
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 | The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $1.98 More strange happenings and dangerous events than my little brain could hold.
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 | The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $0.90 Of course, you're hooked at this point but Tolkien is still good.
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: $12.46 King is usually pretty sophmoric but this is his best novel. Too bad Kubrick's movie couldn't match the ending.
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 | Skeleton Crew (Signet) by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.22 King's best works are his short stories. Contains "The Mist," "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut," and "Survivor Type."
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 | Night Shift by Stephen King
Buy used from: $1.45 Contains "Battleground" and "Quitters, Inc."
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
Buy used from: $9.62 Dark, dismal picture of the future.
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 | Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 In the tradition of Ludlum.
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 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.96 Another movie first, book second purchase.
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 | 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.00 Bought the book first and it was great.
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 | Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States by Michael Mannske
Buy new: $16.95 The UN invades America and hands Minnesota to the French. I got tired of waiting for Tom Clancy to write another Red Storm Rising so I did one myself. This is it. (I still can't believe I made myself cry at the end).
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