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Ryan’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein On Writing by Stephen King 1984 by George Orwell The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations by Simon Rich The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Calypso by David Sedaris
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Honestly, though, does choice even come into it? Is it my fault that the good times fade to nothing while the bad ones burn forever bright? Memory aside, the negative just makes for a better story: the plane was delayed, an infection set ...more
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