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   oppie
   

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   Besides Shakespeare, Who's your favorite Classic author. I have two. William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. I love the South and reading Faulkner I see the South thru his eyes. The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway is simply a work of genius.

   NASCAR...Everything else is just a game.

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   Mark Twain , Homer ,Alexandre Dumas , Three feels like a good number , better read your Twain first as it has already been removed from most schools .

   “There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”

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   Camus, Hugo, Boccaccio, O. Henry, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, if he counts.

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   Mark Twain, Poe, Hawthorn

   If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.

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   Homer, Sophocles: the usuals
   Michael de Montaigne: Essay; Of Cannibals Very odd work, but makes you think.

   
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   Being odd I like odd. I will have to look into that book!

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   A nice short piece is this one by Charles Lamb http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mf/elia1/pig.htm

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   One of my favorites from the classics is Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment.

   I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
   as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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   Shameful but true. Twain has become an endangered species.

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    Ian Fleming and Ernest Hemingway

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    Thanks Arthur,
    I put that in my faves.
    I love that kind of stuff.

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    the complete works of John Stienbeck. Especially once there was a war , the pearl, east of eden.

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