Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (collection) by Raymond Carver
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (collection) by Raymond Carver
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
here are a couple interesting ones
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
metamorphosis
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
good titles...
This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
For Esme - With Love and Squalor
Catcher in the Rye
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Room with a View
Lolita
Hamlet
White Fang
Middlesex
The Iliad (how regal sounding this is)
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Great Expectations
The Brothers Karamazov (okay, it's the translated English, but it still sounds monumental)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe