Pimp: The Story Of My Life By Iceberg Slim by a young author who really knew what she was writing about--she based it partly on the experiences of her friends. It’s like people say-”Write what you know.” And S.E. Hinton did just that, and did an excellent job. The book does have some corny parts, and is one of very few books that actually made me cry. But it’s really fantastic, and I think everyone in the whole world should read it!
Counter-Clock World One Hundred Years of Solitude By Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez uses the surreal, magical realism, and the smudging of time and space to fix 100 years of Columbian history to the overall Hispanic experience. Bloody great book!
The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton
I LOVE this book. I don’t know why I find it so good. The whole thing just seems so real. It’s really exciting, and the characters are all really believable. I like how the story was written
By Philip K. Dick
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase–a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, “Good-bye,” and part with, “Hello,” and underneath the world’s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent oldborn is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world.
Robert (Iceberg Slim) Beck’s first book is told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing. It is the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs in the world of the street pimp.
To Sir, with Love (1967) Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he’s hopeful that he won’t be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students’ personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through? Starring Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray
You Only Live Twice (1967) When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war. Starring Sean Connery as James Bond (Of Course)
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