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scotty wrote:JAWS.
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Not this one then? :innocent:

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Aye, that's the one :notworthy: , and phwarrrrrrrrr :lol:
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Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March (for being really, really well-written)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov - preferably in Russian or the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation (it's hella boring, but it's great for impressing people at parties)
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin (but only in Russian)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
John Updike - The Rabbit Books (for being really, really well-written)
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater (for being really, really well-written)
Richard Powers - The Echo Maker (for being show-stoppingly smart and brilliant and christ...)
David Foster Wallace - Infinte Jest (ditto)
Thomas Hardy - ALL OF IT (for the happy endings)
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james bond and philosophy
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paint it black wrote:james bond and philosophy
You mean Ian Fleming surely :wink:
After Fleming's death, his literary executors periodically hired other authors to continue the James Bond novels. They were Kingsley Amis (writing as "Robert Markham"), John Gardner, and Raymond Benson. In observance of what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday in 2008, Ian Fleming Publications commissioned Sebastian Faulks to write a new Bond novel entitled Devil May Care. The book, released in May 2008, is credited to "Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming".
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Very possibly the finest book I've ever read.
I have to agree. It moved me in that I always had too read it with a very hefty vodka and coke.
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Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Magus - John Fowles
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
etc etc etc etc etc..........
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