 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.77 Brilliant in spots, tiresome in others. The humor really shines through.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $1.99 A great book on marketing and messages in general. Should be required business reading.
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 | Naked by David Sedaris
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.97 I am sorry, but I didn't care for it. When it comes to humorous stories, I have read better.
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 | The Rum Diary : A Novel by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.43 Brilliant. A truly great work. I couldn't stop reading. Makes you want to become a writer.
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 | The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 Amazing. I picked it up on a whim. A dark and disturbing look at marketing. Very deep. Highly recommended.
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 | Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel by Mil Millington
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.76 Perfect humor. This book was laugh out loud funny. Everyone who I have told about it has loved it. Very clever.
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 | Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson
Buy used from: $19.80 An interesting subject, but very dry writing. Everything seems repetitive. Reads like a science report.
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 | Big Deal by Anthony Holden
Buy used from: $0.01 Great book on poker. There have been imitators since Holden. This is the one to read.
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 | For Fucks Sake by Robert Lasner
Buy used from: $2.41 A quick read, but it makes you wonder what the point was. The story wanders and doesn't leave you in the end with any feeling for the author.
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 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.50 Brilliant. Very dark and disturbing and with the final chapter, a lesson on human nature. Highly recommended.
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 | Crash: A Novel by J. G. Ballard
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.43 I never saw the movie but it couldn't compare. You will never feel the same about your car again.
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 | The Dark Room: A Novel by Rachel Seiffert
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Amazing look at Germany and the effect of WW II. The lives of the characters really bring out your emotions.
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 | How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 A look at marriage. Leaves the reader feeling uneasy. I was unsure about the ending.
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 | I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.62 The title story is amazing. Truly great horror. An interesting look at the vampire genre.
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 | Gateway (Heechee Saga) by Frederik Pohl
Buy used from: $0.01 Took a while to get into, but once I did, it became hard to put down. No need to read the rest of the series, this is the one that matters.
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 | The Quirks & Quarks Question Book: 101 Answers to Listeners' Questions by CBC
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $3.99 Yawn!!! Anyone who took science in high school should know most of this already.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.01 Funny at times, sad at others. Thompson was on too many drugs during this one.
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 | Flinch: A Novel by Robert Ferrigno
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $0.01 Crime novel with an interesting twist. Very light and easy to read. Some plot holes.
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $0.23 Read for work book club. Long and not very interesting. Too many extra scenes that don't add much to the story.
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 | Flood by Andrew Vachss
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.95 I read the first 4 Burke novels in a row. Wonderful. Vachss is a gifted writer in this genre and Burke is a masterful "hero".
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 | Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel by Andrei Makine
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $1.33 Another book club selection at work. A look at the effect of war on the people of Russia. I enjoyed the parallels in the lives of the characters.
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 | A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.90 An interesting look at religion in the lives of its characters. A great twist at the end will make you look at the rest of the book differently.
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 | Acts of the Apostles (Mind Over Matter Series) by John F. X. Sundman
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.46 Makes you wonder if this is where we live now. Like a high tech spy novel.
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 | Getting Mother's Body: A Novel by Suzan-Lori Parks
Buy used from: $0.01 Third book club selection at work. Sounded better. Expected more humor. The ending was too abrupt. Brilliant characters though.
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 | Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 A wonderfully written book. Looks at writing and the joy and danger of its power.
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