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CANADA (PP) — We read every day, whether we want to or not. Advertising, directions, papers, Internet, ingredients, menus … it goes on.
Outside of engineers, writers are the most purposeful people in the world. Here are some of my favourite books below.
There’s nothing contentious about them, just pieces of literature I sincerely appreciate and have helped in spurring me on.
Enjoy.
The Authors
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hey Rube, Songs of the Doomed, The Great Shark Hunt, Fear and Loathing in America, Generation of Swine, Kingdom of Fear
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, the Secret Agent, Nostromo
Bentley Little - The Town, Dominion, The House, The Resort, The Return, The Revelation, Dispatch, The Burning
Stephen King - The Shining, The Stand, Dreamcatcher, Night Shift, Tommyknockers, Cujo
Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip, Nature Girl
Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere
H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu, Shadow Over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror
The Books
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy; The Hot Zone - Richard Preston; Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane; The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka; World War Z - Max Brooks; Watership Down - Richard Adams; Moby Dick - Herman Melville; The Lions of Tsavo; The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy; The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin