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Discussion on: Your favourite non-technical books?

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Zohar Peled • Edited

Short and sweet:

  • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Animals by T. Troughton

  • Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann (and the following book called Garou)

For long runners (three books or more):

  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (4 books [perhaps 5 already?])

  • InkHeart by Cornelia Funke (3 books)

  • Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn (5 books)

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Matt Curcio

Love Kurt Vonnegut. Have you read "Slaughterhouse Five", really amazing. It s about being in a POW camp during WWII, ...kinda'... lol.
Vonnegut is so funny and imaginative. Also loved, "Breakfast of Champions", funny.

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Louis

Speaking of POW camps, have you ever read Maus? It's the story of a Jew who survived Auschwitz. Was my first graphic novel and I absolutely love it! It's very metaphoric as the Nazis are drawn as cats while the Jews are represented by mice. Very engaging and heart-tearing piece of art!

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Zohar Peled • Edited

Speaking of the Holocaust, there is a lot of great literature about and around this subject. One of the books I liked about it is Markus Zusak's The Book Thief which was also adopted to a movie by the same name.

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Matt Curcio

I have seen rave reviews of Maus for a long time but have only read bits and pieces.

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Zohar Peled

Thanks, I'll try to get them.