recommendations

[Dave Monroe]

Some personal favorites, and/or titles I've risked
foisting on others ...

Fiction

Kobo Abe, The Ark Sakura
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Italo Calvino, cosmicomics
Rene Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man
Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
Clifford Simak, City
Claude Simon, Conducting Bodies
Terry Southern, The Magic Christian

Non-fiction

Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
Jacques Le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory
Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
Simon Reynolds, Blissed Out
David Sabean, Power in the Blood
Bruce Sterling, Tomorrow Now
Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders

... largely successfully, I believe.  Trying to
mention stuff that hasn't been mentioned already, but
I can't resist seconding, and thirding, and ... that
Beckett trilogy.  And off the top of my head, so if
you've any prticular interests ... okay, MMV ...

--- Cannontoawhisper at aol.com wrote:
>
> Please recommend some books, beside those by
> Pynchon, that you think are good.

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