 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The first the epic I read this and I wanted to go to prison and read a dictionary.
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 | In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.32 An ending that chilled my spine{}I read it in public and sat paralyzed in thought ending so perfect it connects with many ideas.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.01 "Foaming intestines" oh what a perfect way to describe diarrhea.
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 | The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.75 Bodhivissta sp? hopping around stones in mountain valleys and condoning spirtual drunkeness{} read this in eastern washington one night all in one night and smoked filterless cigarretes.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.67 Appealed to my intellectual tastes (surprise I have some) what I mean is Gray has intellectual tastes here meaning he collects great things like jewels and fabrics quite wonderful my dear.
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 | Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.79 Read this in one hour, tells everything he knows about heroin, did you know people can't control orgasms when they're in rehab?
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 | Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.74 Oh there's this great story about a murderer he uses wires in the trees to lop your head off shebow!
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 | The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Many short stories, almost all will induce you to lie back in your bed and smoke a fattie
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 | The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 Not hard to read at all, no not at all and very practical too like an engineer
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.39 Oooh I liked this one I wrote and talked like a british dandy for a week after i was done, ending weak though but climax very good
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 | Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.86 Powerful cathartic freedom like Walt Whitman but much easier to read and much shorter too
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 | The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $3.50 My Aunt gave me this for Christmas, god bless the woman ,every radical left bone in her body
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 | Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.70 Fascinating dialogue driven novel, sometimes incoherent like Subterraneans but overall a linear story with many great thoughts and sentences
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 | Candide (Bantam Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Funny imaginative stuff, kind of banal but only because it's been copied so many times {or elements of it, you'll see} great ending you can read this in an hour or two and it's worth it
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Oh yes and yes so good I laff out loud with this one over and over. I liked the silent injun who narrates it's great Nurse Ratchet ooooh I hate her! Great ending movie good too with Jackers Nicholsoners
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.98 I know so trite to add this because everybody does but I cried twice reading this book and I never do that.
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 | Last Exit to Brooklyn (An Evergreen book) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.09 Don't read this one if you're susceptible to corruptive influence because it WILL corrupt you if you aren't careful. One of the best-written books about hell on earth i've walked into and I did walk into it.
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 | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: $37.77 / Used from: $30.00 All great stories real page-flippers and perfect endings
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 | Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.00 I'm serious now out of my system what I really meant to say is the story is parallel to my own life and I'm sure many others maybe even yours? Well written and much better then that insipid Age of Innocence
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $3.47 Yes good book she becomes very desperate you see very desperate and does things you normally don't read about in 19th century books.
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 | The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: $0.01 Hmm yes not sure what to say but different and worth reading. All about mean fathers and such. Metamorphasis is a sad story about a man turned into a giant ant.
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 | Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $0.01 Okay damnit I liked this one too, it's like Tortilla Flat except better. Damnit all his books are good.
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