Gary R

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Gary’s favorite books

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

On Writing by Stephen King

1984 by George Orwell

Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

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Joan Didion: The ...

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Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

by Melville House

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The Seven Story Mountain

by Thomas Merton

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

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