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\n The Death of Ivan Ilyich<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Leo Tolstoy<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n One of the most gut wrenching experiences I\'ve had in 36 years as a reader, this book is slim, deceptively uncomplicated, and a masterwork of delayed gratification. The synopsis is as simple as this: a man gets sick and dies. And we expe...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Egypt Game<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Zilpha Keatley Snyder<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a master of mood, as anyone who\'s read the evocative and sharp The Witches of Worm can tell you. The Egypt Game has mood going for it in spades; it\'s just not clear to me what else it has, I\'m afraid. This book i...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Gammage Cup<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Carol Kendall<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n HOT DAMN, do I love this book. I have since I was a kid. Above and beyond anything else, this book is an argument for the importance of resisting conformity and for thinking for oneself. It\'s not subtle or meant to be; a central plot poi...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \"Wargames\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Wargames<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by David Bischoff<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Just watch the movie.\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Ogre Downstairs<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Diana Wynne Jones<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Written by my single favorite author as a child, the Ogre Downstairs is minor Diana Wynne Jones, but that\'s still high praise. Set in a very low-magic universe, even for Jones, the book is a story about a set of kids (or, at first, a cou...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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