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A very good book about small-town USA describing all the details and rituals of the small town Lake Wobegon.
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Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure
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Adrian, the troubled teen growing up in the England of the 1980's. Very good view of the society and the things bothering a youngster growing up.
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Dune the books are to be preferred over the film, as the film leaves out the prophecies of Muad Dhib, information on the planetary ecologist for Dune (a lot to be learned for our own planet) and the intruiging history of the Butlerian Jihad (after which Mentats came about).
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