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Brian’s favorite books

The Book by Alan W. Watts

The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press

Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin

Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Guacamole airlines and other drawings by Ed Ruscha

Lying by Sam Harris

Free Will by Sam Harris

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

by Stephen Greenblatt

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The American Language

by H.L. Mencken

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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

by Jack Lynch

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