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Originally Posted by TreeHugger
A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my all time favorite books! John Irving is probably my favorite author, well, one of them anyway, he is a brilliant character writer, for sure.
It will likely end up one of mine as well. I will finish it tonight. This is the first book of his that I've read and it was recommended to me by the guy I'm always talking books with at the bar on Friday nights. He is a voracious consumer of literature and I frustrate the hell out of him with my 15 pages per day pace and tendency to insert career oriented stuff into the queue. He mentioned Irving's Dickensian characters and I had to move it up. Dickens has always been one of my faves.
My other faves, or at least books that have had a dramatic and/or beneficial effect on my life and/or outlook, include:
"A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
"Mother Night" and "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
"1984" by George Orwell
"His Master's Voice" and "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem
"The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkein
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"Death is a Lonely Business" by Ray Bradbury
I could go on and on and on ...
What about you?
Oh, and I shouldn't leave out:
"How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food" by Mark Bittman
Impressing a woman with my culinary endeavors in the kitchen has always been a major turn on. :naughty: