 | Prey by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not the best by Chrichton, but it was a Xmas gift so I can't complain
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 | The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 A decent book about the dysfunctional family - I loved that it took down the Oprah book club at least for a little while.
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 | Bombardiers by Po Bronson
Buy used from: $0.01 Good book - like Catch 22 meets Liar's Poker - but almost too true life to qualify as fiction
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.10 Defintiely worth your time - you don't need to be in the industry but it helps if you are
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 | Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin by Mark Singer
Buy used from: $0.01 Kind of pointless - about a drug dealers that supposedly sold drugs to Dan Quayle - I picked it up for about a dollar and I still feel like I got cheated
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 | The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic by Wade Davis
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $5.50 A very cool book - good intro into voodoun from both a sociological and biological point of view
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 | How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.81 I would say this has to be one of the more misleading titles of all time - should be called "Books I Think You Should Read: the Ramblings of a Book Snob" - do not waste your time
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 | Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 A great story, even if you are not into poker
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 | 44: Dublin Made Me by Peter Sheridan
Buy used from: $0.01 A well told story about a young boy growing up in Dublin - but not as heartwrenching as Angela's Ashes
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 | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.86 Amazing book considering the fact that it was written in the 1800's
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 | Thursday Night Poker: How to Understand, Enjoy and Win by Peter O. Steiner
Buy used from: $0.01 A decent book for beginner poker players
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 | Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.18 A classic - highly recommended
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 | Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman by Richard Adams Carey
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $0.01 Skip it - painfully boring and I am from New England
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 | Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country by Andy Bellin
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $0.01 Highly recommended - a smart look at the dirty world of poker from a literate insider
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 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Chuck Barris
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 A good time - fact, fiction or a little bit of both? who cares? read it
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 | The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.72 Not a bad attempt - tries to explain things like charity and cooperation from an evolutionary biologist's perspective
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Classic Sci-fi - the first book about cyberspace - amazing that it was written over 20 years ago
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 | The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.98 Well written - better than the movie
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 | The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Thom Jones
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $1.92 One of the better collections of short stories that I have read
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 | Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time by Brian W. Aldiss
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $2.00 The book from which A.I. was made - I really hated that movie but the book is substantially different - much darker - makes you wish that Kubrick had lived to complete the film
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 | Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Another novel that is superior to the film
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 | The Art Of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $5.95 A very random book but worth the effort
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