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Tumblr. Love Is..... By Brandi Lewis - Hello Poetry. XVII (I do not love you...). By Pablo Neruda - Hello Poetry. Worthless. By Carissa M. Wyles - Hello Poetry. None of us know what we’re doing. Confusing Words. ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your iPad, smartphone, or eBook reader. Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing.

Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com. The 16 Best Dystopian Books Of All Time. Dystopian novels—stories of the horrific future—are so common as to be almost forgettable. Here is a compilation of what I believe are the 16 greatest of the genre. I could happily list twice as many that are amazing, but these are the best. From the post-apocalyptic wasteland to deadly viruses to social malaise, all possible bad futures end here. 16. That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis Best known for his Narnia novels, CS Lewis also wrote a trilogy dealing with visiting other planets—well the first two books did. 15.

Wow, can you get more polar opposite of CS Lewis than Margaret Atwood? 14. While perhaps not as well known as some, John Christopher (the pen name of Samuel Youd) wrote a fantastic trilogy of young adult novels, set in a far future where the world has reverted to a feudal society after a global ecological disaster. 13. This novel, combined with Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide are all you need to face the inevitable zombie apocalypse. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. Top Ten - Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century - Top 10 - Top 10 List - Grapes of Wrath - Lady Chatterly's Lover Quote - Slaughterhouse Five Quote - To Kill a Mockingbird Quote - Fahrenheit 451 Quote - Catcher in the Rye Quote - Tropic of Cancer Quote. Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century #10 - The Grapes of Wrath "Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it!

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'" —The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck #09 - Lady Chatterley's Lover "Ravished! #08 - Slaughterhouse-Five "All this happened, more or less. . #07 - To Kill a Mockingbird "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. " #06 - Fahrenheit 451 "The sun burnt every day. . #05 - The Catcher in the Rye "It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. " #04 - Tropic of Cancer "I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. . #03 - Naked Lunch "The Planet drifts to random insect doom...

" #02 - Ulysses "History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. " Bookshelf Porn: Archive. "If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking ..." - Mmmhh... Suppe :D.