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Postby Apakenua » 2011.11.11 (01:32)

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Postby McP3000 v2.0 » 2013.01.10 (06:07)

Equilibrium wrote:Shogun by James Clavell?
James Clavell is excellent but it takes a certain type of person to like his stuff.
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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2013.01.13 (07:44)

With the resurrection of this old thread I note I never reported back regarding the recommendations, so... the only one from this thread that I actually got and read was krusch's rec, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which is indeed fantastic and got me into Murakami. I considered Slappy's rec, Inherent Vice, but decided if I was going to read Pynchon I might as well read Gravity's Rainbow. I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow. Occasionally I do open it to a random page and have a look around and enjoy it. I might check out Inherent Vice again, though.
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Postby otters~1 » 2013.02.14 (04:15)

sxmt wrote:I considered Slappy's rec, Inherent Vice, but decided if I was going to read Pynchon I might as well read Gravity's Rainbow.
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Postby Universezero » 2013.02.14 (23:04)

Equilibrium wrote:Shogun by James Clavell?
Best book I've ever read. Highly recommend.
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Postby Scootastic » 2013.07.03 (08:53)

Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. If your library doesn't have it, try looking somewhere else. Interesting book, although
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the part where you get to Ataguitania is ridiculously confusing.

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Postby Vyacheslav » 2013.07.03 (12:38)

Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.

Also, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ ... solar-anus
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Postby Donfuy » 2013.07.16 (12:15)

The Other Side of Midnight, S.Sheldon.
Perfume, Patrick Süskind.

The second being an amazingly disgusting trip through the world of the fumes.
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