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If you insist... Larry Send a noteboard - 20/06/2010 11:05:30 PM
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Brian Evenson, The Wavering Knife (collection)

Franz Kafka, The Trial

Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley

Ma Jian, Beijing Coma

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

Stepan Chapman, The Troika

Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Milorad Pavi?, Second Body


Something tells me that the majority of people reading this will not have read the majority of the works mentioned, so hopefully this will inspire further exploration.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Amazing books you think people must read - 20/06/2010 08:35:22 PM 1384 Views
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. - 20/06/2010 08:39:11 PM 773 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. *NM* - 20/06/2010 09:05:40 PM 392 Views
A few - 20/06/2010 10:06:38 PM 779 Views
Ehrm. Do you mean fantasy? - 20/06/2010 10:24:34 PM 1181 Views
If you insist... - 20/06/2010 11:05:30 PM 847 Views
sadly I have not been wowed by a book in a while - 21/06/2010 12:07:33 AM 873 Views
Julian Comstock was good? - 22/06/2010 05:13:37 PM 707 Views
I love the style it was written in - 22/06/2010 06:13:48 PM 765 Views
Catch 22 - 21/06/2010 02:03:18 AM 762 Views
It's that good? I have it on my shelf here but haven't read it. *NM* - 21/06/2010 05:13:55 PM 331 Views
Let's just say it makes an impact. - 21/06/2010 06:22:10 PM 738 Views
It honestly had very little impact on me one way or another. - 22/06/2010 12:13:24 AM 754 Views
I really don't think it's that you're stupid. - 22/06/2010 02:23:50 AM 769 Views
I enjoyed it. The absurdism--not all that unlike Vonnegut in many instances--made for a lot of fun. - 22/06/2010 02:50:49 AM 780 Views
<3 Vonnegut - 22/06/2010 03:24:23 AM 1018 Views
Same here - 22/06/2010 12:25:29 PM 777 Views
I'd say... - 21/06/2010 03:11:24 AM 758 Views
Baxter's book The Raft was an interesting book - 21/06/2010 02:35:32 PM 728 Views
Some suggestions - 21/06/2010 03:40:06 PM 771 Views
Thanks for all the kind suggestions! *NM* - 21/06/2010 05:56:37 PM 445 Views
Pale Fire by Nabakov. Or Lolita for that matter. *NM* - 21/06/2010 08:22:56 PM 368 Views
Pale Fire was excellent. Especially for people who enjoy when Frost is mocked. - 22/06/2010 12:49:38 AM 762 Views
It's truly an amazing work. I should revisit it. - 26/06/2010 05:57:20 AM 726 Views
i beg you, do not read silverthorn or darkness at the whatever - 29/06/2010 12:12:33 AM 739 Views

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