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Misery by Stephen King
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The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
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Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard
Valdez Is Coming
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The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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This has long been one of my favorites among the Shakespeare plays that I've read (I do intend to read them all at some point). The Kenneth Branaugh movie version was to my thinking the best movie version of Shakespeare that I have seen. I had been t...more
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The Philosophy of Existentialism by Gabriel Marcel
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Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Fledgling
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This was more like a 4, but I had some real reservations. I would go higher, but the apparent age of the narrator (53 year old Ina (vampire) who looks 10 or 11) makes the sexual content really really creepy. I give this a qualified recommendation sin...more
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