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Unread 22 May 2006, 15:22   #34
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Re: We haven't had a book thread in a while

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Originally Posted by furball
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Out of the classics, do you have any recommendations?
Read some Tolstoy: Anna Karenin or War and Peace if you like long but rewarding reads, The Cossacks is shorter and not as good, but still very worthwhile.
And read some Shakespeare (King Lear - it really is some of the best literature ever written).

edit: Oh, and read Le Carré for pretty much the best spy-fiction you'll ever read.
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