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I had $115 to spare so I went on a little spree.

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton- $15.95

The Trial by Franz Kafka l- $14.95

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick- $14.95

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche- $9.95

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson- $15

Scanners Blu-ray Criterion Edition- $21
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7/10, could have done better, but could have done a whole lot worse.

Bump. Only one I've already read is Zarathustra. Pretty excited to start Fear and Loathing.
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Michael Crichton
Philip K. Dick

This man has good taste.

MC has probably the very best expository writing style I've ever seen in fiction, and I greatly appreciate that he doesn't wadte pages and pages on descriptive garbage.

I've read somewhere around 60 PKD short stories, and most of them have been amazing. Check out The Last of the Masters, Upon the Dull Earth, If There Were No Benny Cemoli, Breakfast at Twilight, Foster, You're Dead, The Variable Man and Time Pawn for sure.
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DevsBro posted...

Michael Crichton
Philip K. Dick

This man has good taste.

MC has probably the very best expository writing style I've ever seen in fiction, and I greatly appreciate that he doesn't wadte pages and pages on descriptive garbage.

I've read somewhere around 60 PKD short stories, and most of them have been amazing. Check out The Last of the Masters, Upon the Dull Earth, If There Were No Benny Cemoli, Breakfast at Twilight, Foster, You're Dead, The Variable Man and Time Pawn for sure.

I've never read any of his short stories, I'll have to check them out. I've read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly and they were fantastic.

And yeah, Crichton is amazing. He always did so much research to give his books authenticity. You end up actually learning something from most of his work.
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