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Old 09-22-2016, 11:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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A friend asked me today to recommend him ten books I think are required reading. (I only included fiction, so essential stuff like "The Myth of Sisyphus" or "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" got omitted.)

My list would be:

Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi
Gustav Meyrink: The Golem
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Lautreamont: Les Chants de Maldoror
Stanislav Lem: Solaris
Strugatsky Brothers: The Doomed City
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Voltaire: Candide
William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch

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Including all books/plays in this.

W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings (this changed the way that I see the world)
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
Elie Weisel: Night (for the historic elements)
William Shakespeare: Hamlet (granted that you have the time and will for some in-depth analysis)
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
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William Shakespeare: Hamlet (granted that you have the time and will for some in-depth analysis)
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Is this just a bunch of blank pages?
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Is this just a bunch of blank pages?
At least it has pages.
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Is this just a bunch of blank pages?
It's an empty space on a bookshelf, actually.
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Including all books/plays in this.

W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings (this changed the way that I see the world)
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
Elie Weisel: Night (for the historic elements)
William Shakespeare: Hamlet (granted that you have the time and will for some in-depth analysis)
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
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Have you read a lot of Virginia Woolf? I have to read To The Lighthouse next month for school.
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Have you read a lot of Virginia Woolf? I have to read To The Lighthouse next month for school.
Only To the Lighthouse and The Waves. If you're prepared for TTL's style, it won't be as boring as your classmates will make it out to be. The Waves is similar but the base content (not the subtext) is interesting and the weaving of seven lives together was executed brilliantly.
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