Hello! Newbie here. I just finished reading William Burroughs - Junky for the umpteenth time. The book never lets me down. I got the 50th anniversary issue of Naked Lunch for my birthday yesterday (from my ex-wife) so that will likely be next.

I definitely dig that book. We have a little thing every year with our Big Read event in my city where we celebrate Jack Kerouac; he mentions my city in On the Road...he says he was sitting in front of an old movie theatre in Ashland, KY, looking at the Ohio River. That building? The Paramount.

I didn't even know that until I read the book in high school. Then I was like, :cool:

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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Great book that I keep having a hard time putting down. I've never read any of Chandler's stuff before but I may have to after this. I had certainly been hoping the book would be entertaining but I had no idea how funny it would be too!

I loved it too. I bought a copy of it from overseas. I would also like to read more dystopian books.

I'm getting sucked into this book.
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i'm a big fan of Chandler

my fave is The Long Goodbye - you won't see the twist coming

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this guy is good. i've heard of him before but discovered him recently. i'm now a fan

The doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
really good book!

The Birth of the Beat Generation - Visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960 by Steven Watson

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I just started this last night.