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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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An honest, un-ironic list of some of my favourite booksThe sort of books that give you tingles on the back of your neck, and leave you walking round in a bittersweet haze for a few days:
The History of Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Nausea - Jean-Paul Satre
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Demian - Hermann Hesse
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Little Prince - Antoine de saint Exupery
La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
In no particular order, except Rasselas which deserves to be at the top of every list.
"Ye who would listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia."
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 16:43, Reply)
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