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Lifer
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A Song of Fire and Ice - George Martin

Great series, I just finished re-reading them about 4 weeks ago, mainly because my room mate started reading them. My room mate loved it so much that he bought the board game. Now maybe one of these months A Feast for Crows will actually be published.
 

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Flashman, by George McDonald Frasier
Then you've got 7 or 8 more good ones to follow..
 

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Here's some I've read recently, maybe you'll find one or two you might like among these:::::::::

Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond, ISBN 0-393-31755-2
(Pulitzer Prize winner. Even though I'm not all that interested in the subject, its a real pleasure reading the way Diamond expresses his thoughts. I'm reading this right now.)

The Hunt for Zero Point, Inside the Classified World of Antigraviity Technology by Nick Cook, ISBN 0-7679-0627-6.

The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, ISBN 0-7167-1186-9.

The Patton Papers 1940 - 1945 by Martin Blumenson, ISBN 0-395-12706-8.
One B AAA AAA DDD dude. Germans feared him. History wrongly forgets this amazing guy. His experience showed what a terrible terrible incompetent terrible general Dwight Eisenhower was.

Patton, A Study In Command, by H. Essame, ISBN 0-684-13671-6.

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, ISBN 0-06-016381-X.

An Open Life, Joseph Campbell in Conversation With Michael Toms, ISBN 0-943914-47-7.

Sparks of Genius, the 13 thinking tools of the world's most creative people, Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein, ISBN 0-395-90771-3.

Women and Men, a Philosophical Conversation, by Francoise Giroud and Bernard-Henri Levy, ISBN 0-316-31474-9.

The Einstein Papers by Craig Dirgo, ISBN 0-671-03489-8, a thriller novel.

Wizard, the life and times of Nikola Tesla, biography of a genius, by Marc J. Seifer, ISBN 1-55972-329-7 (hc).

Transformations of Myths Through Time by Joseph Campbell, ISBN 0-06-055189-5.

The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson, ISBN 0-9635309-6-8.

Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein, ISBN 0-471-12104-5.

IF you're a student, then try to read some ORIGINAL SOURCES like Greek classics, religious literature, Willie the Shake, Emerson, THos. Jefferson, etc. etc. Familiarity with some ORIGINAL SOURCEWORKS will help you a lot. It's about the only time in life that you'll ever have any time to explore stuff like that.