Books make up my life in the states and here in Peace Corps... TOP 5 1) Carl Sagan's "Varieties of the Scientific Experience, My personal view on the search for God" - note I loved this book so much that i am giving it to my parents to tenderly take it back to the states to sit on a shelf waiting for the next person I am going to lend it to. I now want my future house in the states to have NASA posters all over it. He was an amazing open person. This book was put together from his lectures at the Glifford Lectures, by a friend, many years after his death. 2) John Toole "Confederacy of Dunces". Either the best book ive read or the second best in peace corps. Funny and witty but nothing you would expect. Takes place in New Orleans, please book me a ticket when i get back to the states. The author sadly only wrote two books in his life before he commited sucide in his early 30s. His mom brought this book to a professor after his death. It won the pulizer prize. 3) ...
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