Recommendations

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Dave Monroe schrieb:

> 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

°°° His "Road to Flanders" is excellent, too.

Also I recommend "A Thousand Plateaus"
by Deleuze & Guattari.

KFL *

PS. Plus Flaubert's "L'Éducation sentimentale" -


> 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
>