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It seems like my shelf is pointlessly cramped with a variety of dust-collecting volumes, although recently I made a good choice with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". What are some of your favorite literature?
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The Devil is Dead
___________________R A LaffertyGo ahead, punish yourself, and not read it. 
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Books that I have enjoyed but which you may not:
1. Flann O'Brien. 1939/40 [1967]. The Third Policeman.
2. Aldous Huxley. 1944. Time Must Have a Stop.
3. Anthony Burgess. 1960. The Doctor Is Sick.
4. Gabriel García Márquez. 1967. Cien años de soledad; published in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude.
5. Lawrence Durrell. 1968/70. The Revolt of Aphrodite: Tunc and Nunquam.
6. Heinrich Böll. 1971. Gruppenbild mit Dame; published in English as Group Portrait with Lady.
7. Thomas Pynchon. 1973. Gravity's Rainbow.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Laverne says Nakoa's Woman by Gayle Rogers
A fierce Indian warrior, a beautiful white captive--an enthralling love story
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"The Adventures of Hiram Holiday" by Paul Gallico.
"The Chest with a Secret" or anything else translated into English by Yvonne de Bremond d"Ars. I have even started reading her works in French and using a dictionary 16 times per page certaily prolongs the pleasure (grrrr).
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1. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
2. Code of the Lifemaker, by James Hogan.
3. The Complete Bolo, by Keith Laumer.
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John Crowley:
Engine Summer
Little, Big
AEgypt/Love and Sleep/Daemonomania
Italo Calvino:
The Baron in the Trees (trans. by Archibald Colquhoun)
Invisible Cities (trans. by Wiliam Weaver)
Salman Rushdie:
Midnight's Children
and yes, Cryptonomicon by Stephenson
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I also liked:
1. Neal Stephenson. 1984. The Big U.
2. Neal Stephenson. 1992. Snow Crash.
3. Italo Calvino. 1979. Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, (published in English as If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
4. Don DeLillo. 1976. Ratner's Star.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Favorite Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton (Dover)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
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