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	Name: Jack B Drori
	City & State: Lafayette, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Avocation: neurologist/writer

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

Since age 13 I don't recall ever being without a book. Except for certain specific needs and events, nothing lured my attention more than the stories and events depicted in books. There was nothing more enticing, richer and exhilirating than the stories in books.

My List of Ten: Literature

1. Crime and Punishment
Author: Dostoyevsky
Guilt triumphs

2. War and Peace
Author: Tolstoy
Despite intentions, conflicts will follow, depending on the force of characters and circumstances.

3. The Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
The strength of the individual can triumph even in the heart of darkness.

4. Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Even evil can be conquered.

5. Life on the Missisippi
Author: Mark Twain
Home and belonging triumphs.

6. Elizabeth Costello
Author: J.M. Coetzee
The power of self-discovery through writing.

7. Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
The force of charcaters and circumstances forming life's vicissitudes and resolutions come through despite dated writing.

8. A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Passion can penetrate even the hardest heart, if...

9. The Fugitive Pieces
Neither past nor future can delete the present.

10. Ravelston
Author: Saul Bellows
Irremediable spirits can never be redeemed.

Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.

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