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Old 09-12-2013, 12:17 PM   #405
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I think I choose unwisely in doing too much suspect science fiction in the 1980s.

James Dickey's Deliverance was probably the highlight. When I was finding my list of books this one just popped out. Some years were easy to find a book and some were hard. My birth year was easy because this book just screamed at me to be read. I was highly anticipating it and it lived up to all my expectations. Just great stuff.

Highlights (very high in some cases):
1970 James Dickey - Deliverance
1993 Lewis Shiner - Glimpses
1996 Roddy Doyle - The Woman Who Walked into Doors
1998 Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform you...: Stories From Rwanda
2002 Michael Frayn - Spies
2008 Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
2012 Blaine Harden - Escape from Camp 14
2013 Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Book choices were much easier in later years than earlier years. I just know more about the authors and choices these days. I know I got a good list of potentials started if I was to do this again, but I think I would add more current event non-fiction into the mix.
Nice one . I've only read Deliverance and White Tiger from that list, and agree they were both great reads. A fun idea, which I may consider myself some time.
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