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flowers for algernon (daniel keyes) - fiction book club book for september

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i am the cheese (robert cormier) - lilly recommended it as one of her favorites, a young adult psychological thriller

sophie's world (jostein gaarder) - a thinly disguised philsophy 101 textbook

Saturday, September 30, 2006

contact (1997)

Contact (Carl Sagan)

i like to re-read "contact" periodically because it's filled with so many great ideas. it touches on technology, human nature, religion, science, personal relationships, everything. carl sagan was an amazing man (i've read his non-fiction stuff too and loved it, cosmos for example) and his writing ability would have been astonishing by itself, nevermind the expertise in the sciences. a top five book for me, i think.

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