Books Ive Read in 2004 (cont.)

The Trail of the Serpent

By Mary Braddon

Starting in the riverside town of Slopperton-on-the-Sloshy, Jabez North commits a series of atrocious criminal acts as he is pursued by Detective Peters.

The American Language

By Henry Louis Mencken

A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

By Mitch Albom

Eddie dies on his eighty-third birthday in a tragic accident - He awakens in the afterlife where he learns that heaven is where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it.

Lamb

By Christopher Moore

A bold, hilarious, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus life, told from the perspective of Biff, Christ's childhood best buddy. By the author of The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

Lonesome Dove

By Larry McMurtry

Tells of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and shows how one man's dream to create an empire affects others.

Cat's Cradle

By Kurt Vonnegut

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine “Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

Books Ive Read in 2004 (cont.)

The Trail of the Serpent

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The American Language

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Lamb

The Da Vinci Code

Lonesome Dove

Cat's Cradle