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To Kill A Mockingbird. Very strong influence on how my views on race relations, racism, civil rights were formed. My childhood and adolescence were spent growing up in a rural Virginia community where school integration and Martin Luther King were anathema to most people there(or to be more...

Obviously, vampire lore has changed a lot since the era of Dracula to the present time of Buffy and Angel, Twilight, and Sookie Stackhouse. Its interesting to note that as far back as the 1930s some people were taking issue with depiction of vampires that deviated from the Stoker motif. It...

Read this several years ago, enjoyed it . But was not impressed with the movie. Now if someonr would write a sequel that has him teaming up with Buffy,,.

Surprised no mention. of J.A. Jance and her long series featuring Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady. Or her newer Ali Reynolds series. Not sure of the distinction in this thread between mysteries and thrillers but I recommend the Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters( pen name of Edith...

Have started reading The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K.Chesterton, the excellent Wordsworth Classics edition with an interesting introduction by David Stuart Davies. It contains all 5 of the Father Brown story collections that commenced with The Innocence of Father Brown, published. in...

Robert E. Howard- and he wrote a lot of other stuff besides fantasy. Tolkien of course anything in the old Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, some great classics from William Morris, Lord Dunsany, E.R. Eddison, James Branch Cabell,etc as you see, I favor older authors. Still, there is some more...

Beatles- Sgt Pepper Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited Grateful Dead- American Beauty