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    I'm assuming this thread is for the best SOUNDING Literary Title

    Kafka on the Shore.

    Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

    The Catcher in the Rye

    The Once and Future King

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    You Bright and Risen Angels - William T Vollman
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    Elective Affinities - Goethe

    La vie: mode d'emploi. Romans - George Perec (Life: a User's Manual. Novels)

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    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

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    And

    The Sun Also Rises

    and

    Tender is the Night

    I knew I'd think of a few more.

    Quote Originally Posted by Modest Proposal View Post
    A good quote is always nice. Maybe that's why I like, "Slouching Toward Bethlehem".
    I second this one.

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    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.


    a good book too.

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    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.

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    Dostoyevsky - The house of the dead.

    ps: "The Once and Future King " what an idiot title

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griffith View Post
    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?

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    I've always been partial to the titles A Clockwork Orange, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Beyond Good and Evil.

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    The Swimming-Pool Library

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    While I did not particularly like the book, I've always liked the title Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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    À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
    There is hope, but not for us.

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