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Kelamin:
House Of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
A very strange but very awesome book
Garcin:
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Ive read OHYOS... it was difficult and quite circular and confusing. If you want to read something very similar but a little more accesible then read "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
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Really? I read it, thought it was too straightforward for all the high-falutin' "magic realism" talk I'd been hearing. Then I found out that Marquez had intended it, in part, to make Columbian and Central American history interesting to the common man. What I found confusing was Autumn of the Patriarch, half because of the enlarged testicle in the wheelbarrow, and half because either Marquez or the translator opted to extend sentences upwards of one and a half pages.
And of course, there's Marquez's mentor, Jorge Luis Borges, whose short stories cover such conventional ground as the planet of impossible physics that exists entirely in apocrypha ( Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius), the point at which everything is visible (The Aleph), and the library that contains every book that could every be written (The Library of Babel). So short stories by Borges, particularly Ficciones, are my strong recommend -- just as long as you don't feel uncomfortable occasionally not knowing what the fuck is going on.
On a completely unrelated tack, I recently finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and strongly recommend it -- particularly to anyone who went to a private school. You may need someone huggable somewhere around the last 100 pages though.
Sus3an:
--- Quote from: Moiche ---You may need someone huggable somewhere around the last 100 pages though.
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I know how that goes. I recommend Robert Asprin's Another Fine Myth. It's the first novel in a series about a young magician's apprentice, Skeeve, who is aspiring to be a thief, but his efforts are thwarted by the assassination of a close friend of his, and Skeeve's need for revenge. The need for something huggable part comes in at about book ten, The Sweet Myth-tery of Life. I cry every time I read it.
~pouts~ I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about it...
The series is written in first person, sprinkled with satire and puns.
The Cosmic Fool:
Sorry to the rest of the Chuck Palaniuk fans in here. I think that Fight Club was his best work. Also, I'd advise everybody to read the novel before you go see the horrid movie. If you've already seen the movie, read the book for sure.
I'm currently reading the Communist Manifesto. Fascinating piece of philosophical literature. Rings true on many levels.
kidgotham:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut Jr (or for that matter, anythign by Vonnegut is great)
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