By no means exhaustive:
Gilead -- M Robinson.
Portrait of An Artist -- J Joyce
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles -- H Murakami
2666 -- R Bolano
The Savage Detectives -- R Bolano
Dostoevsky -- everything
Pale Fire -- V Nabokov
Cryptonomicon -- N Stephenson
Ayn Rand -- everything (at the time, and I would still defend it)
East of Eden -- J Steinbeck
Disgrace -- J Coetzee
On the Road -- J Kerouac
Bhagavadgita -- Krishna
The Arrogance of Power -- A Summers
Game Control -- L Shriver
For Whom the Bell Tolls -- E Hemingway
Communist (a short story) -- R Ford
A Game of Thrones -- G Martin
Letters from Earth -- M Twain
Ezra Pound's biography
Wittgenstein's biography
Gilead -- M Robinson.
Portrait of An Artist -- J Joyce
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles -- H Murakami
2666 -- R Bolano
The Savage Detectives -- R Bolano
Dostoevsky -- everything
Pale Fire -- V Nabokov
Cryptonomicon -- N Stephenson
Ayn Rand -- everything (at the time, and I would still defend it)
East of Eden -- J Steinbeck
Disgrace -- J Coetzee
On the Road -- J Kerouac
Bhagavadgita -- Krishna
The Arrogance of Power -- A Summers
Game Control -- L Shriver
For Whom the Bell Tolls -- E Hemingway
Communist (a short story) -- R Ford
A Game of Thrones -- G Martin
Letters from Earth -- M Twain
Ezra Pound's biography
Wittgenstein's biography
I cannot even copy his manner because the manner of his prose was the manner of his thinking and that was a dazzling succession of gaps; and you cannot ape a gap because you are bound to fill it in somehow or other -- and blot it out in the process. -- Nabokov
OK, Rafonauts, name some books you loved.
- 06/11/2010 11:48:32 PM
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I can do that.
- 07/11/2010 06:14:02 AM
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We have similar taste. Haven't read HOUSE OF LEAVES yet, though. *NM*
- 07/11/2010 07:13:11 AM
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But but ... too many!
- 07/11/2010 10:07:21 PM
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Re: Jesus, I forgot Hyperion. I almost cried during Rachel's story.
- 13/11/2010 01:18:31 PM
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'm going with things I found very impressive, or that have stuck with me
- 07/11/2010 10:50:55 PM
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Otherland and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series by Tad Williams *NM*
- 08/11/2010 11:30:33 AM
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Re: loved books OK, you Rafonauts,some name
- 12/11/2010 11:00:38 PM
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