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 |  The Executioner's Songby Norman Mailer Mailer wrote multiple books that can be legitimately called masterpieces. This is the greatest of them. A huge ambitious novel about the execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah in 1977. Might be closest thing we have to the Great American Novel. |
 |  Back in Blackby AC/DC Was the band's first album after the death of their original singer, Bon Scott. Was made as a tribute to him. I first heard it in 1980, when I was eleven. It absolutely rocked and I loved it. It still rocks, and I still love it. There probably hasn't been more than a month or two since I first heard it that I haven't played at least part of it. |
 |  American Psychoby Bret Easton Ellis You'll either love it or hate it. One of the most polarizing, and controversial, novels of the last 20 years. A great book that was way ahead of its time. A wonderful and brutal attack on materialism and insincerity. In 50 years it will be considered one of the best and most influential books of the late 20th century. |
 |  Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the MermaidsI have a three year-old daughter. She loves loves loves Dora. All of her friends, boys and girls, love Dora. There are a ton of Dora videos. This is my daughter's favorite. A mean octopus is throwing garbage into the Mermaid Kingdom. Princess Mariana loses her magic crown. Dora and Boots have to help her find it, stop the octopus, and save the kingdom from environmental destruction. |
 |  A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy Toole Funny funny funny funny funny. Probably the funniest book I've ever read. Toole wrote it, couldn't get it published, killed himself. His mother Thelma found the manuscript in a box in his closet years later. She got it published and it won a Pulitzer. It's set in New Orleans. The main character is named Ignatius Jacques Reilly. He's a fat slovenly mustachioed 30-year-old Medievalist who lives with his mother. He needs a job. It's unbelievably good, and it's a tragedy that Toole didn't write more. |
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