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    Quote Originally Posted by CantDog
    The Prize by Daniel Yergin.
    that will last the trip and terrify you (truth is scarier than fiction)

    and abbey and more abbey

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    I really enjoyed Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile.

    How the United States funded the muj in Afghanistan.

    You will weep for our government - keystone cops is an understatement.
    Falafel!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pink
    Davinici Code, Angels & Demons (Read A & D before D Code)
    And easily the worst prose ever to hit the masses. The guy is a great story weaver but his writing sucks.
    "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

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    Quote Originally Posted by bagtagley
    After American Psycho, I've vowed never to pick up another one of his books.
    That book took the description of violence to the extreme, but there are plenty of other aspects about that book that are more interesting. His last book, Lunar Park, gives some more insight into his earlier books even though it is some kind of mix between an autobiography and fiction (and it is hard to tell what part is more prominent).
    You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

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    2 weeks at sea? I guess The Perfect Storm might be a poor choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Gus
    I really enjoyed Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile.
    This was an amazing book, and partly inspired my choices for this trip so far.

    Taliban - Ahmed Rashid (written pre 9/11)
    The World's Most Dangerous Places - Robert Young Pelton

    (Killing Pablo is out, Whitewash is in)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pink
    I have to totally disagree. I was totally able to lose myself in his writings. I found myself trying to decypher between fact and fiction. What is about his style that you do not like?
    Nigga, please.

    Get in to Hemmingway, Blake, Milton Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Beckett, Conrad, Joyce, Kafka, Mann... translations of Homer, Tolstoy... even Michner. Then get back to Dan Brown and see why he's numbing the minds of an already undereducated generation with bad "literature."
    It's idomatic, beatch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pink
    I have to totally disagree. I was totally able to lose myself in his writings. I found myself trying to decypher between fact and fiction. What is about his style that you do not like?
    I alternated between cringing and laughing out loud at the dialogue. Just really, really horrible stuff.

    The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stash
    I alternated between cringing and laughing out loud at the dialogue. Just really, really horrible stuff.

    The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.
    Ding ding ding!

    Again, it's not the content nor the story itself that is so painful. It's his inability to "write" or to carry the story through the words themselves above a college freshman level that I found to be painful. Not to discount your opinion, of course. I just found it dreadful myself. As my fellow Cornholio said, "nigga, please," to which I'd add a "you gots to be whack to be diggin' this shit, dawg".
    "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

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    I would also recommend Youth in Revolt by CD Payne.

    What Huckleberry Finn would have been if Hunter S. Thompson had written it.
    Falafel!

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    I will not trust the reccomendations by someone with the username "Pink".

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    Kafka by the Shore - Mirikami
    Haunted - Chuck Palanchuk
    Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater
    And easily the worst prose ever to hit the masses. The guy is a great story weaver but his writing sucks.
    God, are people still recommending this book? DaVinci Code reads like a Nancy Drew novel - quick read, good page turner (who can help but turn the page when the chapters end with "He knows the answer, but can't tell yet" - just like Nancy's mysteries), but, ultimately, it's just bad.

    It has transformed a whole group of non-readers into readers, though, and that's a good thing.
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    I agree that the writing in Da Vinci code is not that great but any book that gives the masses a different perspective on their religion, such as, just because I have been told this my whole life, is it true?

    is ultimately a good book as far as I am concerned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yogachik
    God, are people still recommending this book? DaVinci Code reads like a Nancy Drew novel - quick read, good page turner (who can help but turn the page when the chapters end with "He knows the answer, but can't tell yet" - just like Nancy's mysteries), but, ultimately, it's just bad.

    It has transformed a whole group of non-readers into readers, though, and that's a good thing.
    So did J.K. Rowling's books, and I know which I prefer....

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