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12-15-2013, 07:03 PM
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Ten Books that Affected You
One of the new games going around Facebook is listing ten books that affected you (no particular order). Don't have to be deep, just ten books that meant something to you for one reason or another. Thought it could be fun here. I'll put up my FB list:
Black Beauty- Anna Sewell The Last Unicorn- Peter S Beagle Perfume- Patrick Suskind D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths- Ingri D'aulaire The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander Little Women- Louisa May Alcott The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams When Abortion Was a Crime- Leslie J Reagan Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry- Mildred D Taylor The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton Of course, there are oodles more, but honorable mentions to Dean Koontz's Phantoms, which is not a good book, but scared the bejesus out of my 12-year-old self, and Gone With the Wind, which has not affected my worldview or anything, but which I think I read about 50 times between ages 19-35.
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12-16-2013, 11:49 PM
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I still remember the first romance novels I ever read (given to me by my grandmother when I was 11 or 12): "This Cherished Dream" and "Domina."
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12-17-2013, 11:09 AM
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Probably more telling than a Rorschach Test
 Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi For the Love of Mike - Mike Royko Jaws The Exorcist - William Blatley Dracula - Bram Stoker All The President's Men - Bernstein and Woodward The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer Full Moon -The Rock n Roll Life of Keith Moon - Dougal Butler The Hot House - Life Inside Leavenworth Prison - Pete Earley The Enforcer - The Tony Spilotro Story - William Roemer Honorable Mention - Beyer on Speed - Andrew Beyer
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12-17-2013, 12:14 PM
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Those above and.. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - my all time fav book The Odessa File - " The Dogs of War - " The Hunt for Red October -Tom Clancy Patriot Games - " Clear and Present Danger - " Movies were made on all three Clancy books and were very good imo.. As you can see i am big fan of political thrillers..
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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12-17-2013, 12:44 PM
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The next book on my list is The Bully Pulpit.
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12-17-2013, 04:35 PM
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I read "Helter Skelter" in 9th grade, I think. Very readable- made me a sucker for true crime books (or true-ish, I guess).
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Gentlemen! We're burning daylight! Riders up! -Bill Murray
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12-17-2013, 07:34 PM
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Speaking of HS books, The Good Earth may deserve another try, when I'm in hospice.
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12-18-2013, 08:23 AM
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harold and the purple crayon
where the wild things are green eggs and ham horton hatches an egg the little engine that could mike mulligan and his steamshovel the little red hen misty of chincoteague justin morgan had a horse king of the wind
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12-18-2013, 08:47 AM
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Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
The Painted Bird (Kosinski) The Jungle (Sinclair) The Rise of David Levinsky (Cahan) Things Fall Apart (Achebe) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Richler) The Tin Drum (Grass) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarche) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) Invisible Man (Ellison) Short Story: The Secret Sharer (Conrad)
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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12-18-2013, 04:21 PM
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Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch..Great book and loved the movie, watched it at least 5 times over the years..one of the best courtroom scenes ever...movie was Robert Duvall's film debut.
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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12-18-2013, 04:59 PM
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yep, boo radley. fabulous book, fantastic movie. peck was awesome. i could relate to scout finch, i detested being a girl. just glad that thankfully i was born in a later era, and could wear pants. good lord, how can one ride a bike and make jumps if one is in a dress?
and the line from dill 'i'm little, but i'm old'. lol great, great book. also saw 'all quiet on the western front' on steve's list. fantastic book.
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12-19-2013, 01:37 PM
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2nd book i ever read was I, the jury..someone tossed it on my bunk way back..couldn't put it down and later at a used bookstore bought up most all of his works...
Mickey Spillane: I, The Jury; Vengeance Is Mine: The Big Kill; My Gun Is Quick,Kiss Me, Deadly. First book i remember reading was, of course, The Catcher in the Rye .. J. D. Salinger
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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12-19-2013, 07:56 PM
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
Ireland Frank Delaney Galway Bay Mary Pat Kelly A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry Aztec Gary Jennings Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett Centennial James A. Michenor Lord of the Rings(trilogy) J.R.R. Tolkien Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
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12-19-2013, 08:31 PM
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 'You wanna poke'.. 
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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