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The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown: It was called “The book that ate the world” a few years ago and I admit that it was good. However it was good in the way a whippit is good: a few minutes later you got a headache and a jones for something more.
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Great book, page turner...Movie decent but not close..
Few oldies i would add to the list:
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
and this one, given to me by my Babtist Minister father-in-law some 30 years ago...
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938)
When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets.
Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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