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Inappropriate. Went a little to far with the butt hole tearing.

<-*is undecided on the subject*

  • 11.30.2012 5:50 PM PDT

"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"

"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."

- "Cross of Iron"

Jack Higgins

J.R. Tolkien

  • 11.30.2012 5:57 PM PDT

Every member of the Covenant shall walk the path. None will be left behind when our Great Journey begins. That is the Prophets' age-old promise, and it shall be fulfilled!

Mark
Matthew
Luke
John

  • 11.30.2012 5:58 PM PDT

It's a'me, Sesto

Stephen King
George R. R. Martin

  • 11.30.2012 5:58 PM PDT

Posted by: Alex Mac Kee
If pen­ises were planes Jimmy's mouth would be an airport


Posted by: DarkBen64
Don't punch a British kid, the queen'll come after you.

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Stephen King
George R. R. Martin
Come on now really?

  • 11.30.2012 6:03 PM PDT

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

The greats of sci-fi at least.

H.G. Wells, Issac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Frank Herbert.

I could go on.

  • 11.30.2012 6:09 PM PDT

GOAT

William Faulkner

  • 11.30.2012 6:10 PM PDT

I don't typically read based on author, and don't really care to hold authors over each other.

Although I am partial to the works of Frank Herbert.

  • 11.30.2012 6:11 PM PDT

My Brahman is ready.

Inb4 hitler

  • 11.30.2012 6:12 PM PDT
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Those guys that wrote all those religious texts. Those are far more influential than anything by Dickens, Suess, Hemingway, Tolkien, PLato, etc....

  • 11.30.2012 6:13 PM PDT

Assuming this can be non-fictional too:

Feynman's Lectures on Physics were (and still are) some of the greatest physics books published - they cover a wide array of physics topics to a fairly advanced level, providing one with a solid foundation to the basis of physics as a whole.

Also, Spivak's text on calculus is a truly brilliant book covering, nearly, all areas of calculus with clear details and explanations.

  • 11.30.2012 6:17 PM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

Michael Crichton

Easily one of the most brilliant people in the history of the human race.

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  • 11.30.2012 6:17 PM PDT

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Relax, they aren't all pony related.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

<.<

  • 11.30.2012 6:25 PM PDT

~Thread-killer~

John Grisham
Michael Crichton

  • 11.30.2012 6:29 PM PDT

Blargh!

No Poe?

No Lovecraft?

No Lord Dunsany?

You people need to start reading some books that aren't just Science Fiction!

  • 11.30.2012 6:48 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.


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Ray Bradbury

R.I.P.

*snivel*


It's a three-way tie between Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke. Science Fiction would be nowhere near as popular without them.
Also... Robert A Heinlein.

  • 11.30.2012 7:00 PM PDT

I'm not a psycho. I'm cool. Calm your nipples.

E.L. James

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  • 11.30.2012 7:03 PM PDT

"I am an enforcer man! Don't nothin' go down in my house! This 100% heart baby! Sure, I check a few fools. I give em the pain! But sometimes its about intimidation, though. It's mind games."
-Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

Ernest Hemingway.

  • 11.30.2012 7:03 PM PDT
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Ernest Hemingway

Isaac Asimov (I'm a sucker for science fiction)

Harper Lee

William Golding


and I've been really interested in Orson Scott Card's novels recently, especially Ender's Game.

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  • 11.30.2012 7:05 PM PDT

BTW Elites rule!

And I am probably just trolling you right now....especially if it is a controversial thread

Hemingway and Tolkien

  • 11.30.2012 7:06 PM PDT

Ignore my gamertag. It's actually Dragonzzilla.

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J.R.R. Tolkien
Victor Hugo
Bram Stoker
J.K. Rowling
C.S. Lewis
George R.R. Martin

  • 11.30.2012 7:07 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

  • 11.30.2012 7:08 PM PDT
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Who wrote the bible? That most likely the most influential book of all time.

  • 11.30.2012 7:09 PM PDT

Pure Insanity
The point of war is not to die for one's clan, but it's to make the other bastard die for his
Right before you die, there is always a chance to save yourself, sieze that chance and live to fight another day
The best way to kill someone is to fight them with the same weapons they use and make them know you are better than them, not because of superior weaponry, but because of superior skill.
Hidden in the shadows, Clothed in camo, Armed to the teeth. Hunting.

Leo Tolstoy

Homer

Ted Dekker

Stephen Lawhead.

I could post many others, but these are a few.

Edit: Can't forget to include Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

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  • 11.30.2012 7:11 PM PDT

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