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04-07-2008, 04:42 AM
|  | why u bullshittin' | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (jean paul i think you'll really like this?) | Someone recommended that to me, actually. Any good? All I know about it is it's meant to be really fucking looong.
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04-07-2008, 04:46 AM
|  | settle down, beavis | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Teejay's Zaymart
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Originally Posted by Ophiel Someone recommended that to me, actually. Any good? All I know about it is it's meant to be really fucking looong. | it's my favourite book (apart from Cat's Eye and God of Small Things), so yes, i think it is very very very good. |
04-08-2008, 03:26 AM
|  | the figurehead | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: evidently chickentown
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Nausea/The Wall - Sartre
The Outsider - Camus
The Trial/Amerika/The Castle - Kafka
In the Country of Last Things/The NY Trilogy/Mr Vertigo/The Brooklyn Follies - Auster
Family Dancing/Equal Loves - David Leavitt |
04-08-2008, 03:35 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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| | | How about some Coetzee? Life & Times of Michael K is a good read.
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04-08-2008, 08:44 AM
|  | Sign your reps | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by saturdays=youth You are gay. Avoid Stephen King also.
Back to the thread.
Whoever named Camus and John Waters deserved a pat on the back but the rest of their list shocked and appalled, so patting has been suspended.
Bronte, Orwell, Austen, Woolfe, Coupland, Waugh, NEIL FUCKING GAIMEN??? all shit. I think one should read him. He marked the 20th century lit, in my opinion you have to confront it. Same for Aldous Huxley.
Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby - all worthless too. I disagree.
Off the top of my head:
Camus - The Fall, The Outsider. Yes
Bukowski - ANYTHING except Pulp, that was worthless. Hell yes. I especially love love love his short stories.
Hunter S Thompson - The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing.
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
William Burroughs - Queer Yes
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Impossible for me to read this book in english.
Jack Keroac - On The Road Cliché
and as someone else said.
"Philosophy in the boudoir - Marques De Sade Yes
Notes from the underground - Dostoevsky Anything from Dostoïevski really.
Les enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau" Yes | May I add some more. don't confine yourself with The Unbearable (...) by Kundera. The Novel, The Ignorance, etc. are short but delicious. Ulysse by James Joyce. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Same with Voyage au bout de la nuit by Céline. Bonjour, tristesse by François Sagan. The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
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