 | Invisible Monsters: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $5.05 A woman feeding an unsuspecting man estrogen pills. Wishing on postcards that are later thrown out from a balcony. Palahniuk at his best.
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 | The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 The main character can't walk off of curbs and goes to Kinko's to touch every corner of every copy machine. Nuff said.
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 | The Night In Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.97 Bullet in The Brain is the best story in this collection.
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 | Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.25 As if sitting across from the author himself. Honest and genuine voice.
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 | How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 For fans of Voltaire's Candide. An optomistic look at a pessimistic world.
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 | Old School by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.48 Private school. Writing contest. Growing into independence.
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 | Raymond and Hannah (Harvest Original) by Stephen Marche
Buy used from: $0.01 Uniquely written. A jumble of correspondence and people finding themselves.
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 | Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.95 Just read it. I can't even begin to explain...
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.49 Civil war re-enactor. Mental hospital. Sex addiction. Friend who collects rocks in place of boozing.
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 | Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 ANOTHER indian burial ground.
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 | Different Seasons (Signet) by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A lighter side of Stephn King, comparable to his Hearts In Atlantis. Weird stuff going on, but still ALMOST believable.
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 | Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 weird short shorts. If you saw the TV special of "Riding the Bullet", disregard it and read the story in here. Fan-tabulous.
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 | Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 GHOSTS!!! You may need to leave the light on as you fall asleep...
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 | All Fall Down
This one is about a young kid coming of age. You feel what it's like to lose your role model becuase you realize they're no better than anyone else.
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 | Shopgirl: A Novella by Steve Martin
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $0.01 Young girl meets old guy. Young girl meets young guy. Young guy is repulsive. Old guy won't commit. Young girl get's heartbroken but still salvageable in the end.It's true life with a touch of Steve M
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 | Pulp by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $5.99 Charles Bukowski. What a cantankerous old coot. This book is dedicated to bad writing. Very interesting read. Metephores galore, though I'm not sure for what...
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 | On Photography by Susan Sontag
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $5.82 reads like a textbook, one you can enjoy in small doses. She is amazingly brilliant. Goes well with Barthes.
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 | Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.83 Same as Sontag, but more of an "approachable" read.
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 | Roxaboxen by Alice Mclerran
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.15 My mother used to read this to me at bedtime. I'm 20 and my imagination is still utterly enchanted.
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 | Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.68 Lovely.
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 | Amelia Bedelia and Her Wacky World: Amelia Bedelia and the Baby, Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping, Amelia Bedelia Helps Out, Good Work Amelia Bedilia by Peggy Parish
Buy used from: $69.98 For the kid in you...what? You'll need a mental break from our good friend Susan Sontag.
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 | Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.99 His wife leaves him with a note; It says she gives him a B+ at life.
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 | Mendocino and Other Stories by Ann Packer
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Details are incredibly lyrical. Wonderful.
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 | Dance, Recover, Repeat by Alasdair Duncan
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $0.01 bret easton ellis style. Australian author. Gay culture. Well put together.
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 | The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.90 Art School. drugs. sex. and more drugs. Counter this one with a comic strip, otherwise you'll feel apathetic for a week.
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