Recommendations

[Dave Monroe]

Pardon duplications, but ...

Kobo Abe, The Ark Sakura
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pecuchet
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man
Vladimir Nabovkov, Pale Fire
Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
Claude Simon, Conducting Bodies
Terry Southern, The Magic Christian
Nathanael West, Cool Million

Stuff I've given successfully as gifts, mostly ...

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
> Here are some books that are very good and should
> make you laugh to boot.  Well; they made me laugh.
> 
> Terry Southern: Flash & Filligree, Blue Movie, The
> Magic Christian
> Flann O'Brien: The Poor Mouth, The Third Policeman
> Nathanael West: A Cool Million, Miss Lonelyhearts
> Vladimir Nabokov: Laughter in the Dark
> Jorge Amado: Home is the Sailor
> Charles Portis: The Dog of the South, Masters of
> Atlantis
> Kingsley Amis: One Fat Englishman, Lucky Jim
> Thomas McGuane: The Sporting Club
> Samuel Beckett: Murphy
> Thomas Berger: Neighbors, Who Is Teddy Villanova
> William Faulkner: The Hamlet
> Ernest Hemingway:  The Torrents of Spring
> Joseph Heller: Good as Gold; Something Happened
> Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One, Handful of Dust
> Tom Sharpe: The Throwback
> Aldous Huxley: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan;
> Antic Hay

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