The Ender's Game books, although some of the later ones are a little weird and messed up.
The Wheel of Time series. Only if you don't mind taking a long time. The longest of the 10 books is 1000 pages, and the rest border around 600 and up.
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Some of it is funny, most drives home a point, which varies given the reader. Notably Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Player Piano.
If you haven't, read the Silmarillion, its long and semi-boring, but it puts the Lord of the Rings in context very neatly.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.
Garth Nix's series, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen. It's a relatively dark series.
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, it's a semi-children's series, but the world is pretty cool and its funny at times.
Terry Pratchet has been given rave reviews to me by a friend, along with Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss.

There are a bunch of classics that I'm forgetting though...

ummm...

Grapes of Wrath
Fahrenheit 451

I'm done.

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Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

*Looks at bookcase*
That Hideous Strength

Excellent trilogy, although, like his other works, heavily influenced by Christianity. So if you're not Christian, you probably won't enjoy them as much.

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"I sound like angry chickens, or maybe a space robot."
-Les Claypool of Primus

yay! someone else knows about her

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

"An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales", and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks. They're non-fiction, and they're fascinating.

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MadQuack has a signature.

Lots and lots of MAD magazines.

And The Godfather.

You might try:

The Cure

It's soemwhat like the Giver, set in a world that's 'perfect'. Really, really interesting, the main character has to go back in time...Sort of. You'll see.

The Theif's Fortune
The Swordsman's Oath
The Theif's Gamble
All three by Juliet E. McKenna

Set in a fantasy land similiar to that of, say, Middle Earth, or the Forgotten Realms, she is a veyr good Author, and all three books are excellent reads.

Also, you might want to check out 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Very awesome book, as well.
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Ugh, how could i forget Dune, the Giver, and F451.. bad mouse.

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman [*uberheart Door*]

The Sparrow [and the sequel] - Mary Doria Russel [brilliant work of speculative science fiction involving a Jesuit mission to a newly discovered planet with sentient beings, huge exploration of the philosophy thereof and whether alien races are outside of the catechism and so forth].

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"If I said anything which implies that I think that we didn't do what we should have done given the choices we faced at the time, I shouldn't have said that." -William Jefferson Clinton
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Well. This has been a near complete waste of time. I'm at the library, I rode my bike here through the rain... blah. List of books I wanted:

Candid
Leviathan blah blah
Darwin Among the Machines
Electric Ant - Philip K. Dick
Idoru
Catch 22
Lies my teacher told me

What they had:
Maybe Candid. I haven't checked yet, though they say they have one copy.
..
..
Nothing else.

Dispicable. I'm so dissapointed.

Bahahahahaha!

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I have a signature.

That's too bad. Stupid Public Library system...

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

I'm to lazy to read every post. But if you like WWII, this suited my just fine.

Soldier Boys - Dean Hughes

Poor, poor Spence.
'Nuff said

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Titan A.E.

"The least they could do is kill my food before I eat it." - Cale

Although my name represents one of my favorite songs, in a way it also explains my actual person, a Cosmic Castaway!

That and the Madeline Lengle books are great.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

The Bible beotch

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If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

But seriously

1984
Dune (only the first one)
The Silmarillion
Napalm and Silly Puddy

that should keep you busy.

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If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

God: Read, read, started-to-read-but-hated-it. (Though maybe I just couldn't concentrate due to the pneumonia I had at the time..), and.. Waah?

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[19:59] Happy "Liar liar" dud: This is arguably one of the lowest points in my life.
[20:00] Happy "Liar liar" dud: I'm sitting here infront of my two computers wearing shorts and with no shirt, eating potato salad and orange juice, debating the existance of pants.

The Giver.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

I'm with Dud. what's 'Napalm and Silly Putty'?

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW
A Knight's Tail

Its by George Carlin, pretty funny book, I got it for my dad one year for his birthday, and then i ended up reading it too.

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"I like my women how I like my coffee, in a plastic cup." - Eddie Izzard

My recomendations would have to include

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

8.4 - Peter Hernon

Quicksilver, The Confusion, The Big U, Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon, all by Neal Stephenson

The Zero Game, First Council, The Millionaires, and The Tenth Justice, all by Brad Meltzer

Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined - Drew Carey

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"I like my women how I like my coffee, in a plastic cup." - Eddie Izzard

Listen to the wise spoon/fork combination man.

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Classic: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Modern: Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Sci-Fi: I, Jedi by Micheal Stackpole
Non-Fiction: The Battle for Truth by David A. Noebel

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Yen is but one part of a larger problem in japan's bumbling attempts to pull out of a seemingly endless stagnation -Googlism