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Richard Condon

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

March 18, 1915

Died

April 09, 1996

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Richard Thomas Condon was a satirical and thriller novelist best known for conspiratorial books such as The Manchurian Candidate.

After service in the United States Merchant Marine, Condon achieved moderate success as a Hollywood publicist, ad writer and Hollywood agent. Condon turned to writing in 1957. Employed by United Artists as an ad writer, he complained that he was wasting time in Hollywood and wished to write a novel. Without Condon's knowledge, his boss, Max E. Youngstein deducted amounts from his salary then fired him after a year giving him the amount of money he had deducted in the form of a Mexican bank account and the key to a house overlooking the ocean in Mexico. Youngstein told him to write his book. His second novel, The M ...more

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	The Manchurian Candidate 4.08 avg rating — 25,001 ratings — published 1959 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prizzi's Honor 3.84 avg rating — 847 ratings — published 1982 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Kills 3.53 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1974 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prizzi's Family 3.41 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1987 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Infinity of Mirrors 3.69 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1964 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prizzi's Glory 3.40 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mile high 3.56 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1968 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manchurian Candidate / Winter Kills / Prizzi's Honor 4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whisper of the Axe 3.36 avg rating — 61 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oldest Confession 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1959 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”
― Richard Condon, Money Is Love

tags: marijuana, metaphor

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“Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.”
― Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate

tags: humor

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“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.”
― Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate

tags: humor

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Which one of these books did you gain the most "underground knowledge" from?

The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

6 votes 15.8%

The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World by David Icke

4 votes 10.5%

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan by Robert Shea

2 votes 5.3%

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent

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1984 by George Orwell

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Holy Bible: King James Version by ??

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

2 votes 5.3%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

1 vote 2.6%

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

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Classified Woman by Sibel Edmonds

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

1 vote 2.6%

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

1 vote 2.6%

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

1 vote 2.6%

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1 vote 2.6%

The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Robert Lomas

1 vote 2.6%

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

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The Camel Club (Camel Club, #1) by David Baldacci

The Camel Club by David Baldacci

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Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson

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The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black

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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century by James Bamford

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The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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The Untold History of The United States by Oliver Stone

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The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin

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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

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Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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