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Michael Stipe recommended On the Road in Books (curated)

 
On the Road
On the Road
Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
8.5 (4 Ratings)
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"“This book became my band’s template. To explore the country and do it all — having a great big time — on our terms, and no one else’s. Hooray! Followed by “The First Third” by Neal Cassady. The muse speaks, writes, smokes, drinks, seduces."

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Andy K (10821 KP) created a poll

May 5, 2019  
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Favorite movie directed by Joel Coen?

Blood Simple

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Raising Arizona

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Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink

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The Hudsucker Proxy

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Fargo
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Ladykillers
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
True Grit
Inside Llewyn Davis

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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Irvine Welsh recommended Underworld in Books (curated)

 
Underworld
Underworld
Don DeLillo | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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"This was the book that made my John Updike collection pretty much superfluous. In one big, sprawling, ambitious novel, DeLillo captures the soul of white America at its most optimistic, soaring and sad — an amazing achievement. You can read this and look at what the country is now and cry tears."

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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
1985 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To find the Jewel
Joan Wilder (turner) is on holiday with her boy friend Jack Colton (Douglas) when Omar comes along and wants Joan to write a piece all about him and she refuses so he kidnaps her and brings her back to his country and try's and force her to write how great of a guy he and his country is. Jack and his pal Ralph (Devito) go the country to rescue her to find out the country has a long lost "jewel" to be found. Jack is interested in finding Joan where as Ralph eyes become to big for his stomach wants to find this fabled jewel. During their adventure to find this "jewel" they come to realize they are now in a country that has two sides. The side that Omar wants it to be and the side it's beloved people want. Will Jack rescue Joan or will Ralph find this Jewel first.

Remember a Jewel doesn't always mean fame and fortune.