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11-22-2011, 01:50 PM #76
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Don De Lillo. James Ellroy. Cormac McCarthy.
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11-22-2011, 03:25 PM #77
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Man I really dislike DeLillo. So full of himself and so convinced he's writing something "important" all the time.
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11-22-2011, 03:33 PM #78
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I'm less of a fan of his more recent stuff for that reason. He didn't come off that way back when he wrote White Noise, Libra, etc.
Originally Posted by iceman
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11-22-2011, 04:31 PM #79
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Just read Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Amazing. I could not put it down. I read all 600 pages over the course of a Sunday. Anyone read anything else by him?
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11-22-2011, 09:56 PM #80
it is 4:48
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Like a boss,
check my post earlier in this thread - he is my favorite author. If you liked The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle try Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Love that book.
South of the Border, West of the Sun is a beautiful story. Read it several times.
Hated, absolutely hated the ending of Kafka on the Shore. Threw it across the room. Bollocks.
Dance Dance Dance and A Wild Sheep Chase are brilliant I think.
*edit* I realized I only mentioned him, but none of his books that I like.パウダーバカ！！
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11-23-2011, 04:42 PM #81
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dead henry d. t.
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11-25-2011, 11:01 PM #82
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Thanks, I will definitely check those out. Originally Posted by satori
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11-27-2011, 05:03 PM #83
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Joseph Campbell
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this thread has reminded me of some of the messengers that have molded my life
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11-27-2011, 06:09 PM #84
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Two great authors and four books that had paradigm altering effects for me.
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11-30-2011, 01:24 AM #85
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Ivan Doig
My reading list just got much longer, lots of great suggestions!
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11-30-2011, 06:36 AM #86
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I think that my favorite author is Dan Brown. All of his books that I read were real good.
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