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My tastes are all over the place.
I'm a big fan of the works of Jim Thompson. Awesomely gritty crime drama.
The Getaway is one of his best, along with The Killing.
I dig Umberto Eco as well. The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum are excellent, heady reads.
And John Kennedy Toole's modern classic A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all-time favorite books. Absurdist humor there.
The Beat's really knock me out too, especially William S Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Junky and Queer . Kerouac's On the Road changed my life when I read it (I was 15)
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
Francis Bacon
Last edited by Roderick Usher; 02-27-2009 at 07:58 AM.
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