GREAT BOOKS FOR BLOKES! ---> No Chicklit, here!

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High Fidelity
1.  High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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  "A masterpiece -- spot on. The first 32 pages alone are worth the price of the book."
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The Losers Club
2.  The Losers Club by Richard Perez
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  "Lonesome Bukowski fan collects rejection letters, becomes addicted to personal ads, trips out meeting nutty gals in NYC, loves a gal who won't love him back. So what else is new?..."
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
3.  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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  "Another masterpiece -- from the greatest American writer since Frederick Exley."
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A Fan's Notes (Vintage Contemporaries)
4.  A Fan's Notes (Vintage Contemporaries) by Frederick Exley
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  "Who's Frederick Exley? Just another dead writer. This is his memoir (they used call 'em novels) -- it should've been called: I'm Just A Big Fat F*cking Failure. Awesome book."
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You Shall Know Our Velocity
5.  You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
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  "Two buddies bounce around the world trying to give away a lotta money. True Americans."
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Sideways
6.  Sideways by Rex Pickett
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  "Gotta love Miles, the failed writer (as if there were any other kind). Pass the pinot!"
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin)
7.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
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  "Why can't the brutal world just leave Ignatius alone, I ask?"
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Lolita
8.  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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  "Brilliant writing, comic and melancholy at the same time. Of course, all men are perverts at heart. Yeah so."
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A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin)
9.  A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
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  "Gorgeous use of language. Of course Kubrick made a brilliant adaption of it."
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Catch-22 (Vintage Classics)
10.  Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
The list author says:
  "Hilarious and zany and absurd. Monty Python funny. Surrealistically profound."
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
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  "A non-comformist manual. McMurphy rules!"
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On the Road (Penguin Classics)
12.  On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
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  "Masculinity unbound. Hit the road, Jack!"
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
13.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
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  "Vegas, baby. Vegas!"
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Trainspotting
14.  Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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  "Oi!"
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Fight Club
15.  Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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  "Don't talk about Fight Club!"
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Choke
16.  Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
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  "Sex and nihilism -- what a combo."
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Survivor
17.  Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
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  "Testing one, two, three...."
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The Basketball Diaries
18.  The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
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  "Too bad about the Leonardo De-Crapio movie."
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Tropic of Cancer (Harperperennial Classics)
19.  Tropic of Cancer (Harperperennial Classics) by Henry Miller
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  "Henry f*cking Miller! There's only one, babe."
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Post Office: A Novel
20.  Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
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  "An account of his one and only long-term straight job -- it was port wine and sweet misery after that."
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Ham on Rye
21.  Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
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  "Bukowski's boyhood hell."
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Women
22.  Women by Charles Bukowski
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  "Buk and his lady pals...friction and more friction."
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
23.  Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The list author says:
  "A welcome change of pace...great to read as you recover from a hangover."
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Naked
24.  Naked by David Sedaris
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  "More hangover medicine."
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Holidays on Ice
25.  Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
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  "Life ain't so bad...just remember to stock up again on the booze."
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