 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 When I listen to Beethoven I hear greatness. When I read Hemmingway I read greatness. No other writer can suddenly hook you deeper into a text than he.
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 | Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Heller's second book. A frightening masterpiece. I read this and walked around for weeks telling myself 'Don't get married, don't have kids. Don't get married, don't have kids.'
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 | Immortality by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 My word can this man write. Highly reflective, interesting, philosophical, funny, beautiful in places and educational, dare I say it. Look out for Professor Avenarius.
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.78 / Used from: £0.01 For me, the beauty of some of Conrad's passages are unsurpassed in modern (ish) literature. This short work is flawless and beautifully written - a magnificent tale told by a true master of language.
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 | White Jazz by James Ellroy
Buy new: £6.81 / Used from: £0.01 Dave Klein - whatta guy. This book - whatta book. If ever there was a book I've read that deserved that wonderful word 'unputdownable', this is it. Sheesh.
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Pure escapist, literate, entertaining and thought provoking sci-fi at its very very best.
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 | From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Buy used from: £2.10 A big, long, beautiful and entertaining book, filled with a modest but very funny wit and a strange sparlking quality that makes you sigh when you close it.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.40 Humour with a razor edge - if you have not read this book I yearn for you tragically (signed Washington Irving)
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 | Das Boot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Lothar Gunther Buchheim
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.01 Alarm! Alarm! Great stuff. Made me a pacifist by the 9th Chapter.
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 | Brighton Rock (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.94 This book is brutally depressing. I couldn't get up out of bed before 4pm for a few days after reading it. But so well written. Great book.
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