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  <updated>2008-05-02T05:08:28Z</updated>
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    <title>Ok, I'll bite...</title>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Jonathan Strange &amp;amp; Mr Norrell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Anna Karenina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crime and Punishment&lt;br /&gt;Catch-22&lt;br /&gt;One Hundred Years of Solitude&lt;br /&gt;Wuthering Heights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Life of Pi : a novel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Name of the Rose&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Don Quixote&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Moby Dick&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ulysses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Madame Bovary&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Odyssey&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pride and Prejudice&lt;br /&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;br /&gt;The Tale of Two Cities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Brothers Karamazov&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War and Peace&lt;br /&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;br /&gt;The Time Traveler’s Wife&lt;br /&gt;The Iliad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Emma&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Blind Assassin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kite Runner&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Dalloway&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Great Expectations&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American Gods&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atlas Shrugged&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Memoirs of a Geisha&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Middlesex&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quicksilver&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Canterbury Tales&lt;br /&gt;The Historian : a novel&lt;br /&gt;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Love in the Time of Cholera&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brave New World&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fountainhead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Foucault’s Pendulum&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Middlemarch&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankenstein&lt;br /&gt;The Count of Monte Cristo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dracula&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;br /&gt;Anansi Boys&lt;br /&gt;The Once and Future King&lt;br /&gt;The Grapes of Wrath&lt;br /&gt;The Poisonwood Bible : a novel&lt;br /&gt;1984&lt;br /&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Inferno&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Satanic Verses&lt;br /&gt;Sense and Sensibility&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Picture of Dorian Gray&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mansfield Park&lt;br /&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest&lt;br /&gt;To the Lighthouse&lt;br /&gt;Tess of the D’Urbervilles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oliver Twist&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Gulliver’s Travels&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les Misérables&lt;br /&gt;The Corrections&lt;br /&gt;The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (or)&lt;br /&gt;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dune&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Prince&lt;br /&gt;The Sound and the Fury&lt;br /&gt;Angela’s Ashes : a memoir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;The God of Small Things&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cryptonomicon&lt;br /&gt;Neverwhere&lt;br /&gt;A Confederacy of Dunces&lt;br /&gt;A Short History of Nearly Everything&lt;br /&gt;Dubliners&lt;br /&gt;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beloved&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Slaughterhouse-five&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eats, Shoots &amp;amp; Leaves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Mists of Avalon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oryx and Crake : a novel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed&lt;br /&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;br /&gt;The Confusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lolita&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Persuasion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Northanger Abbey&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Catcher in the Rye&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Road&lt;br /&gt;The Hunchback of Notre Dame&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values&lt;br /&gt;The Aeneid&lt;br /&gt;Watership Down&lt;br /&gt;Gravity’s Rainbow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences&lt;br /&gt;White Teeth&lt;br /&gt;Treasure Island&lt;br /&gt;David Copperfield&lt;br /&gt;The Three Musketeers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;I would add a fourth category: books that made me throw up (on this list, &lt;i&gt;Memoirs of a Geisha)&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My only impressions so far are wow, I really haven't read that much, and god damn, &lt;i&gt;The Name of the Rose &lt;/i&gt;was a good book. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</content>
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