The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
Kafka on the Shore.
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Once and Future King
Look Back in Anger
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Idiot
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
You Bright and Risen Angels - William T Vollman
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
Elective Affinities - Goethe
La vie: mode d'emploi. Romans - George Perec (Life: a User's Manual. Novels)
Funny, was just in a bookshop thinking about this. In no particular order:
A Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Flies
Naked Lunch
A Handful of Dust
Nausea
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Airtight Garage
Roadside Picnic
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Whatever Happened to the Happy Laughing Girl in the Red Gingham Dress?
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flames
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills
Vanity Fair
To the Lighthouse
Heart of Darkness
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
The Rape of the Lock
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Grapes of Wrath
And
The Sun Also Rises
and
Tender is the Night
I knew I'd think of a few more.
I second this one.Originally Posted by Modest Proposal
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
a good book too.
Corrigendum: One of those above should be
What Happened to the Laughing and Loving Girl in the Gingham Dress?
I kind of prefer my wrong version, though.
Dostoyevsky - The house of the dead.
ps: "The Once and Future King " what an idiot title
I hope you are joking. You know what it means?
I've always been partial to the titles A Clockwork Orange, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Beyond Good and Evil.
The Swimming-Pool Library
While I did not particularly like the book, I've always liked the title Their Eyes Were Watching God.
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
There is hope, but not for us.
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