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  1. Cowboy Jargon and Terms - Found on cowboyfrank.net

    By DonRocks,   
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  2. "Dune" (1965) Frank Herbert's Borderline-Legendary Science Fiction Novel

    By DanielK,   
    • 3 replies
    • 165 views

  3. David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), Genius American Novelist, Essayist, and Author of Short Stories

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 821 views

  4. "Ozymandias" (1818) - Romantic Poem about Hubris, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Antepenultimate Episode of Breaking Bad

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 208 views

  5. "The Brooks Robinson Story" (1967) - Biography by Sportswriter Jack Zanger

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 223 views

  6. "Red Sorghum" (1986) - 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Mo Yan's First Novel, a Family History Taking Place over Decades

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 312 views

  7. "The Tin Drum" (1959) Gunter Grass' Allegorical Masterpiece about Oskar Matzerath, and One of the Most Important Novels of the Twentieth Century

    By DIShGo,   
    • 3 replies
    • 588 views

  8. Post-Surgery Reads - Looking For Suggestions While I'm Recuperating

    By Ilaine,   
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  9. The Nobel Prize in Literature, Revisited

    By DonRocks,   
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  10. "Shipping Out" (1996) by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) Originally Published in Harper's Magazine

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views

  11. Greenberg vs. Greenburg, and Other Orthographic, Onomastic Ordeals

    By DonRocks,   
    • 4 replies
    • 365 views

  12. The New Testament Translated into Gullah

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 263 views

  13. "Patty Reed's Doll - The Story of the Donner Party" (1956), Author Rachel K. Laurgaard's Children's Story Based on the True Pioneering Tragedy

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  14. The Spanish Language - Grammar, Pronunciation, Spelling, Definitions

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 342 views

  15. "The Alchemist" (1988) - Brazilian Paulo Coelho's Portuguese-Language Novel - Bestseller Translated into Eighty Languages

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 592 views

  16. "Voices from Chernobyl" (1996) - Non-Fiction Anecdotes Arranged by Belarussian Svetana Alexievich - 2015 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 273 views

  17. Laura Lawless - Internet Pioneer of Teaching French to English Speakers

    By DonRocks,   
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    • 195 views

  18. "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

    By DaveO,   
    • 8 replies
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  19. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean Poet, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 319 views

  20. "Begging the Question" - What it Really Means, Once and for All

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 412 views

  21. Google the Word "Askew"

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 241 views

  22. "LIfe, a Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth" (1997) by Richard Fortey

    By DIShGo,   
    • 0 replies
    • 226 views

  23. "If I Was a Billionaire" (2016) by Don Rockwell

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 221 views

  24. "Short Shorts" (1982) - An Anthology of the Absolute Shortest Stories by Irving Howe and Ilana Wiener Howe

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 358 views

  25. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), Austrian Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Biographer, and One of the Greatest Writers in History

    By DonRocks,   
    • 5 replies
    • 583 views

  26. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), 1982 Nobel Prize-Winning Author From Colombia, and Author of "100 Years of Solitude"

    By DonRocks,   
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views

  27. "Missing Person" <<Rue des Boutiques Obscures>> (1978) - Existential Mystery Novel by 2014 Nobel Prize-Winning French Author Patrick Modiano

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 923 views

  28. Why Do Some Spanish Feminine Nouns Take Masculine Articles in the Singular?

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 270 views

  29. Harper Lee (1926-2016) - Legendary Southern-American Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

    By Al Dente,   
    • 0 replies
    • 433 views

  30. "Sir Patrick Spens" (Late Medieval Era) - Ancient Scottish Ballad Anthologized by Francis James Child (c1875)

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 439 views

  31. James Joyce (1882-1941), Ireland's Most Famous Novelist and Poet - Avant-Garde Modernist, and Author of Ulysses

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 375 views

  32. Using Male Pronouns - What Is Correct and Acceptable In Modern Journalism?

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 338 views

  33. Mad Magazine (1952-), Widely Influential, Satirical Comic Book and Magazine Largely Bolstered by Editor Al Feldstein (1956-1984)

    By DonRocks,   
    • 3 replies
    • 364 views

  34. "Breakfast of Champions" (1973) - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Bleak, Depressing, yet Humorous Portrait of America and Planet Earth

    By DonRocks,   
    • 20 replies
    • 1.4k views

  35. Jack and the Beans Talk (1734), aka, Giant's Quid - Fee ... Fi ... Fo ... Fum ... I Smell The Pee of An English Mum

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 305 views

  36. "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (1965), A Campy Satirical "Novel" Written by the King of Cynics, Author Kurt Vonnegut

    By The Hersch,   
    • 0 replies
    • 344 views

  37. "Ball Four" (1970) - Jim Bouton (1939-), aka "Benedict Arnold" to Some, Betrays the Inner Secrets of Major League Baseball

    By DonRocks,   
    • 6 replies
    • 469 views

  38. "Runaway" (2004) - Eight Short Stories by Alice Munro (1931-), Canadien Author and Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize For Literature 1 2

    By DonRocks,   
    • 60 replies
    • 5.6k views

  39. "Go Set A Watchman" (2015), Harper Lee's (1926-) Precursor to "To Kill A Mockingbird" - Release Date Jul 14, 2015

    By DonRocks,   
    • 15 replies
    • 1.9k views

  40. "Kipling's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) - A Parody of TS Eliot's Pre-Modernist Poem by Jim Macdonald

    By The Hersch,   
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  41. Buying Used Books On The Internet - bookfinder.com And Other Sources

    By The Hersch,   
    • 4 replies
    • 657 views

  42. "AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC" (1965) 2nd Edition (1974) 3rd Edition (1994) 4th Edition (2006) 5th Edition (2012) - Walking Guidebook to DC

    By DonRocks,   
    • 2 replies
    • 596 views

  43. Günter Grass (1927-2015), 1999 Nobel Prize-Winning Author From Germany and Author of "The Tim Drum"

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views

  44. Is It Me, Or Is It Auto-Correct? The Demise of Typing, Courtesy of Nanny Software

    By DonRocks,   
    • 0 replies
    • 283 views

  45. Respectable, Unmoderated Comments In Respectable Publications

    By DonRocks,   
    • 1 reply
    • 441 views

  46. George Will (1941-), American Newspaper Columnist, Journalist, and Author

    By DonRocks,   
    • 7 replies
    • 624 views

  47. "The Voyage Out" (1915), The First Novel Of English Modernist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

    By Ilaine,   
    • 7 replies
    • 556 views

  48. "Unbroken" (2010) - Laura Hillenbrand's Biography of Athlete and War Hero Louis Zamperini

    By DonRocks,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1.1k views

  49. Flann O'Brien (1911-1966), Irish Novelist, Playwright, and Satirist

    By The Hersch,   
    • 0 replies
    • 407 views

  50. "Endurance" (1959) - Alfred Lansing's Retelling of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Antarctic Expedition

    By DonRocks,   
    • 6 replies
    • 633 views
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