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1) Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
2) 1984 - Orwell
3) Naked Lunch - Burroughs
4) Hitchhiker's Guide (I've got the compendium, so I'm counting the whole series as one book) - Adams
5) Any of Terry Pratchett's <i>Discworld</i> novels
6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
7) Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Miller
8) On the Road and/or Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
9) The Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
10) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
so, maybe I tend toward the cynical...is anyone surprised?
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
---Friedrich Nietzsche
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