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A Listmania! list by Mr. Ian P. Scott "Tom Fairfax" (Cambridge UK)
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Snow Crash
1.  Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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  "The best of the cyberpunk genre. By turns fascinating, thrilling, amusing and satirical, it starts with problems at a Mafia pizza franchise and just gets better."
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The Little Sister (Vintage Crime)
2.  The Little Sister (Vintage Crime) by Raymond Chandler
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  "Bleak and vicious. Marlowe as complete outsider. 'California. The department store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.... You're not human tonight, Marlowe.'"
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The Long Good-bye
3.  The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
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  "Slow, thoughtful, the complete portrait of Marlowe. - ''I'm a romantic...'' ''And you don't make a dime at it.'' ... ''But I can always tell a cop to go to hell. Go to hell, Bernie.''"
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
4.  'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
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  "I read this until it fell apart. Always amusing, occasionally horrifying. War from the South London level."
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American Tabloid
5.  American Tabloid by James Ellroy
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  "Brutal, gripping, complex, amoral. Ellroy once stated that he initially started writing the way he thought crime books should be written, then realised he had to write with his own voice.  This is it."
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Adventures In The Screen Trade
6.  Adventures In The Screen Trade by William Goldman
The list author says:
  "Great read for anyone interested in how Hollywood works. He talks a lot of sense."
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A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "A beautiful portrait of drifting, useless people. Bleak and vicious at times."
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Ragtime (Picador Books)
8.  Ragtime (Picador Books) by E L Doctorow
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  "Fascinating subject matter, a flowing interlinking tapestry of a work."
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Catch-22
9.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "I'll let everyone else rave over this one...."
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Success
10.  Success by Martin Amis
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  "Not everybody's cup of tea. A good intro to the works of Martin Amis (themes, locales, style...) and less intimidating than the similar but thicker ''London Fields'' or ''Money''."
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The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
11.  The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco by John Birmingham
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  "Funny and slightly poignant. Some great characters and cinematic moments."
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Ambient
12.  Ambient by Jack Womack
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  "Womack's books present an absolute nightmare vision of the near future. This is the opening one in a loosely connected series. Disturbing stuff."
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