I'd say a fair bit if it was a first run hardback.

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Preludes and Nocturnes is a good one to give to people who question comics.

Good stuff there.

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Mesmerizing would be the word. My favourite was 'At World's End'. Blew me away. Still blows me away! After that I read all his novels and more of his comics. I even got to meet him at a signing here in Belfast. I would love Peter Jackson or Del Torro to get a movie license for his stuff.

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Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
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Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
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Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

What CV? no 'Guns and Ammo'?!?!?!?!? I also have a stack of those too!!

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Not my favourite author, but my favourite series of books is the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I picked up the first book, the Gunslinger and the Dark Tower, when I was 13(1985). King wrote it in the late 60's. The last book in the seven part series was released around 2005.
I've re-read the books so many times to refresh the story, prior to the next one in the series coming out, over the years. It's like their a part of me. It's all loosely inspired by Sergio Leone's "Man with no name" and Brownings poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".

The latest couple of StarWars series's of books have been decent too. Waiting patiently for the next one to be released next month.

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At first i didn't really like the ending, but after some time, and a reread or two I have to say i absolutely love how he closed it out.

I also have every issue of 'The Destroyer' by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. And the movie Remo Willliams which was based on said series. (149 issues from 1971 til it went on hiatus a year or so ago)

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Thanks guitslinger for starting a thread like this. I feel it is always time for a little culture in my life. So after the Sci-Fi years (which are not done yet), I went through reading a lot of biographies both in French and English, depending on the subject of the book. Now I am mostly reading books from Michel Onfray, French philosopher and atheist. God bless the atheists. By the way, my prefered Sci-Fi authors are Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sawyer, Jules Vernes, Jonathan Swift, H. G. Wells and a lot of others, too many to name them all. Also loved Michael Crichton. Friedrich Nietzsche is on the "To read" list. Thoreau also, so many books and great authors.
Claude.

Yeah the ending had me angry for months, all those years and waiting, just for that. I could have throttled King quite easily. After a while it sank in that there was no other way to end it.

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Here are some of my favorite books that I have read many times over the years:

Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
Christopher Moore: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, The Winter of Our Discontent and The Wayward Bus

If you guessed that my favorite author is John Steinbeck, you'd be right! We spent a year in Monterey, California, and I decided to read as many of his books as I could during that time. I absolutely love his stuff. Curiously enough, I never could get into East of Eden. Maybe I'll try again someday.

Another author I enjoy is comedy-mystery writer Carl Hiassen.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

My all-time favorite would be Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I first read it when I was pretty young, maybe 7 or 8 years old. I really bonded with that book. I've probably read it about a half dozen times in my lifetime.

I like horror, so my favorite authors would probably be Stephen King and Clive Barker. I like Mitch Albom also, definitely not horror though.

Favorite book? Probably The Ultimate Gift.

I'll go with the Bible as well.

I mostly read non-fiction.
I like reading a variety of things-theology, history, humor, music, guitars.

For fiction I really like David Baldacci.

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Hard to choose just one, however one that is always at the top of my list is

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

His only novel, in fact he died (suicide) before it was published, and it was his mother that got it published some ten years after his death. An absolute masterpiece to me, though others who read either didn't get it or plain hated it.

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