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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:45 PM
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What's the most obscure book, by a well known author, you have ever read?
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:59 PM
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1. Fine, I'll go first
Jules Verne - The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:01 PM
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2. I've read all of Salman Rushdie's books

So maybe Grimus?

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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:03 PM
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3. That definitely qualifies as obscure
Never heard of Grimus.

Though I've heard of Satanic Verses.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:25 PM
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4. "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin of Rosemary's baby fame n/t
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:28 PM
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7. Good choice!
I read Rosemary's Baby; never heard of This Perfect Day!

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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:29 PM
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8. it's a futuristic fantasy novel
out of print and I had to pay big bucks to get it for hubby for Xmas (it was one of his favorites in high school)

check your local libraries and hope they have a copy
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:26 PM
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5. several by Dickens
Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Pickwick Papers

it was some strange phase I went through.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 06:27 PM
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6. Of those I only recognize Pickwick Papers
Good choices!
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