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Ben’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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Ben’s Quotes

Ronald Wright

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck

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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller

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