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Thom Jones - Cold Snap: Stories

Thom Jones is one of the best fiction writers of America. Raw stuff!

John Cornwell - Hitlers's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII Audiocassette - Unabridged

Cornwell tells a gripping story, aiming for the jugular.

John Cornwell - Hitlers's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

Devastating account of the evils of pro-Nazism.

Cryptonomicon - by Neal Stephenson

Brain candy for bitheads.
Lawrence Waterhouse, brilliant mathematician and cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe, are part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702...

All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes - inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe - team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties. A 900+ page SF-masterpiece!

Cowboy - A Love Story by Sara Davidson

Cowboy is a passionate reminder that true love can sometimes pass us by because of our preconceived ideas of what true love really entails. A down-to-earth, charming, and shameless novel.

Michael Crichton - Timeline

Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. Timeline opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. This novel carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.

About the Author
Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure. He is also the creator of the television series ER.

Tom Clancy - The Bear and the Dragon

Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best - and there is none better.

Michael Connelly - Angels Flight

"A first-class detective story." (L.A. Times)
Other Michael Connelly's crime novels: The Poet, Void Moon, The Black Echo, The Black Ice

Consciousness and Human Identity Editor: John Cornwell

Great song poets / novelists

Leonard Cohen:

Beautiful Losers - A novel

Books by L. Cohen at Amazon.com

Best of Leonard Cohen "Susanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "So Long, Marianne"...

Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs

Leonard Cohen continues to be one the greatest poets/philosophers in the music industry today. If you are expecting a lot from Cohen, Recent Songs is the album to buy. It's Cohen's "forgotten" album. Songs like "The Gipsy Wife" or "The Guests" are simply fine works. "Un Canadian Errant" and "Our Lady Of Solitude" are awsome pieces of poetry. Raffi Hakopian's violin twists and turns through some of the best moments, and Luis Briseno's mariachi band lends the concluding "Ballad Of An Absent Mare" both grace and humour.

Cohen's 3rd Millennium's work: Ten New Songs

Best books of the 20th Century
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever

Leafy suburbs, summer houses, commuter trains, boarding schools and the cocktail hour among WASPs: welcome to the world of John Cheever. But Cheever isn't merely some sort of anthropologist documenting the customs of an obscure and vanishing tribe. Nostalgia and class issues aside, his true subject is the darkness hidden beneath the surface of postwar American life.

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a tragedy, and a reflection on the difficulties of writing. In another, it is a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to..."

The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess (4 books in 1)

Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
: Clockwork Universe of Anthony Burgess A critical essay by Richard Mathews
Paperback at Amazon.com

franc'O'brain & Transputer Qasar. 2005.
Email: francobrain@angelfire.com.
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