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I actually prefer my favorite short story than my favorite book.
- colin_s0
tough but probably
- BuddhaHat0
Tough call, but I'm gonna go with
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Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Colour of Magic - Terry PratchettBuddhaHat - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Colour of Magic - Terry PratchettBuddhaHat - i didn't know it was a book first. i saw the movie and loved it. this must be great!jaylarson
- fyi, this was written by a ku klux klan member. look it up. i'm still shocked (shouldn't've been by the noble savagery therein tho)jaylarson
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- boat0
- hey damn fine choicekillthefish
- Going to pick up the comic version now too.boat
- detritus0
Big fan of Bret.t* Easton Ellis and Iain M Banks, and my favourite ‘reads’ will be somewhere therein.
It's Margaret Atwood who's stolen my heart though, with
I don't know why.
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* oh ffs, QBN, take this bret.t filter out already, it's fucking stupid.
- scruffics0
"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut
- ********0
I haven't read many books but I'm half way into
and I really like it.
- alicetheblue0
WeaveWorld - Clive Barker
Brilliant Dark Fantasy - Never wanted it to end!
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- johnny_wobble0
'cause it's a great, quick read.
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The novel fictionalizes Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is troubled by dreams as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905. The book consists of 30 chapters, each exploring one dream about time that Einstein had during this period. The framework of the book consists of a prelude, three interludes, and an epilogue. Einstein's friend, Michele Besso, appears in these sections. Each dream involves a conception of time. Some scenarios may involve exaggerations of true phenomena related to relativity, and some may be entirely fantastical. The book demonstrates the relationship each human being has to time, and thus spiritually affirms Einstein's theory of relativity.
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- I freaked when I saw the movie after reading the book. The ending of the movie is totally different.CyBrainX
- Pixter0
- Pretty sure my dad had this...skwiotsmith
- i have a copy of thisjaylarson
- johnny_wobble0
The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. The results are Arturo ("Arty"), a boy with flippers for hands and feet; Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy"), Siamese Twins; Olympia ("Oly"), a hunchbacked albino dwarf; and Fortunato ("Chick"), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers.
Oly tells the story of her family in the form of a novel written for her daughter Miranda.
