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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
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This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your ...more
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For those with a love/hate relationship to seeing their favorite books on film.
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