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Pachinko
Homegoing
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Covenant of Water
Middlesex
The Vanishing Half
The House of the Spirits
The Joy Luck Club
Weyward
East of Eden
The Bright Years
The Island of Sea Women
Black Cake
The Dutch House
A Spool of Blue Thread
Hunter S. Thompson
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant... History is hard to know...but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in ...more
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living  on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way ...more
John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

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Kickin' it Book-Style! Which to us means reading good books, talking about books, and drinking …more
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