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Books I should have read.
Will:
House of Leaves is indeed mindfuckery at its finest. I've read it three times now, and I still feel like I'm missing things. I'm still trying to plough through Danielewski's latest, "Only Revolutions," but it's not nearly as engaging.
Adding to Matt's list, Ender's Shadow is another good one to grab, in the Ender's Game series.
TheFuriousWombat:
You really really should read 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's amazing. The aforementioned Confederacy of Dunces is also an essential read as is Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon (brace yourself for that one though. It's not easy.) and another David Eggers book, You Shall Know Our Velocity, which I flat out loved. A relatively new book that hasn't gotten much press that I'm aware of, entitled Giraffe, is easily one of the most beautiful books I've read. The imagery is astounding and often more poetic than prose. That's by JM Ledgard and anyone reading this thread should stop and read that book instead.
mberan42:
I've read through part 3 of Gravity's Rainbow and had to put it down. I just didn't get it. It was way too complicated for me. I'll pick it up again, eventually.
Felix_:
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Misereatur:
--- Quote from: mberan42 on 25 Jun 2007, 20:16 ---The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the four subsequent novels) - Douglas Adams (surprised nobody's mentioned this one yet. brilliantly witty, smart and meaningful. short enough to read in an afternoon, but wonderful enough to reread a thousand times.)
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I fully endorse this recommendation.
There's even a version of all five novels together in one big hard cover book. I got it some time ago in english, because I read them all in hebrew, and I'm just waiting to finish the two books I'm reading now to start it.
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