A Brief History of Time... Stephen Hawking
heavy duty physics written for those with a fear of science...
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The Complete Works of John Donne
the ultimate love poet... make sure it is COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED...
oh, and by the way, the interpretations they taught you in school are
wrong... e me if you need help with the proper
interpretations...
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The Complete Works of William Shakesphere
the foundation of western civilization... make sure it is COMPLETE and
UNABRIDGED... the complete works...
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Dune... Frank Herbert
this is the only self-contained sci-fi book... it also launched the
genre... forget the movie...
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Lord Foul's Bane... Stephen R. Donaldson
read this whole series... fantasy with REAL characters... the only
fantasy i can call literature...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead... Tom Stoppard
the play the movie is based on... the complete script...
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Science and Sanity... Alfred Korbzyski
the original handbook for the science of semantics...
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Ulysses... James Joyce
Joyce broke all the rules here... poor punctuation, bad grammer, even
worse spelling... multiple layers of meaning in each sentence... one
of the few you can read over and over again, and have it seem new every
time...
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