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Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point 2 12.50%
John Gittings - The Changing Face Of China 1 6.25%
James McGregor - One Billion Customers 0 0%
Geert Mak - Amsterdam 1 6.25%
Ted C. Fishman - China Inc. 0 0%
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 18.75%
Alister McGrath - The Twilight Of Atheism 0 0%
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist 0 0%
Anthony Burges - A Clockwork Orange 6 37.50%
Jung Chang - Mao 2 12.50%
Karl Popper - Conjectures And Refutations 1 6.25%
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Old Sep 28, 06
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What book shall I read next? YOU DECIDE!

PLEASE VOTE NOW! :)



OPTION 01 - Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point

(English edition)

OPTION 02 - John Gittings - The Changing Face Of China

(English edition)

OPTION 03 - James McGregor - One Billion Customers

(English edition)

OPTION 04 - Geert Mak - Amsterdam

(German edition)

OPTION 05 - Ted C. Fishman - China Inc.

(English edition)

OPTION 06 - George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four

(English edition)

OPTION 07 - Alister McGrath - The Twilight Of Atheism

(English edition)

OPTION 08 - Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

(English edition)

OPTION 09 - Anthony Burges - A Clockwork Orange

(English edition)

OPTION 10 - Jung Chang - Mao

(English edition)

OPTION 11 - Karl Popper - Conjectures And Refutations

(English edition)

And now...VOTE THE FUCK OUTTA YOURSELVES MY BELOVED FNKAS!! :)
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Clockwork Orange.

Then Mao.
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Hmmmm..... :)

Sorry prozac I was superdistracted here and then I made this post...

Work done for you soon? Well have a nice evening!! 5.15 am here o.O
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^ I have another 45 mins. :(
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Aww, you'll survive!! *hug* :)
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lol...out of the selected choices of books i would suggest the mao book.

but what you should really read is 'true hallucinations' by terrence mckenna.
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1984 is an amazing read.
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I vote for an option you didn't provide...

'Darkness be my friend by john marsden'

http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Be-My...e=UTF8&s=books

(sorry im not all spiffy with the links like you are.)

one of the best books I ever read!
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What does spiffy mean?

So much to read...uhhhhh....checking that link now...
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votefor Mao.

clockwork orange if you want to have some 'fun' reading.
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Man..it's been so long since I've read 1984..
but the Tipping point...any idea if it's what inspired the title for The Roots last album?..
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I read the tipping point, it's a very easy read and you'll likely finish it in a few days.

A lot of very interesting ideas that will make you think about how the little things can make such a huge impact on the world.

The only bad part about it is Malcolm Gladwell is a horrible writer with incredible ideas often jumping all over the place on tangents, still a good read regardless though.
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A Good Short Story Novel is

The dude in the Purple Jacket. Its good because its about a dude that plays on a sports team and wears and purple sports jacket and gets shanked by the guys in the green jacket kinda like cripts and bloods. and nobody helps him because they are too old, scared, not knowing, or too late.
all he wnated to do was die who he was, not the gangster kid in the purple jacket. anyway i liked that book even though i dont read very much.
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I read the tipping point, it's a very easy read and you'll likely finish it in a few days.
Souns pretty similar to Freakonomics then! :D
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Vote guys, vote! Still some time left! ;)
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read some Douglas Coupland
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read some Douglas Coupland
So you will send me a book of him? Thanks, that's very nice of you...
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no.

but if you go to chapters and purches say "girlfriend in acoma" or "elenor rigby"....u might like........or just read what his books are about and might find it interesting.

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Gonna read 1984 first (my other German community voted for it) and then A Clockwork Orange. I already started with ACO once but then I forgot about it somehow altho I liked the start and the movie...pretty lame... o.O

Anyway, thanks for voting! :D

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FOR TEH ULTIMATE READING EXPERIENCE!1

IT WILL PWN YOU!

PS - Also "Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time" Will blow your mind through time and space into another dimension(even though its not a fiction nor into the future:P time freezes and stands still, almost going backwards), - makes other books seem like paper weight ;) [4000 pages]
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Lost-Ti...286502?ie=UTF8
(supposedly a far-superior modern translation of the first 2 volumes is about to come out)

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