books every intelligent person should read

[malignd at aol.com]

I agree with both and DOTS raises the point that most of the suggestions so far are about books that themselves are sort of brainy.  Whereas you could say that if one is intelligent one should read Wodehouse or Ross MacDonald or Terry Southern or Ring Lardner of Flann O'Brien and many others because they're really good at what they do and a smart guy should know about them.


That said, if you're looking for brainy, there's the stuff written by Oulipo --  Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, et al. 



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From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us>
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Subject: Re: Re: books every intelligent person should read


mine would include _J R_ and _The Dog of the South_

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:
> Per Jacob
>
> ---Infinite Jest needs to be on here. That book made me love writing.---
>
>
> - OK but what are your other nine (-:
>
> (Mine is already at 10 & although I liked ij, I'm disinclined to bump any to
> make room --- maybe put IJ as Alice's #9 but need to go ask alice....but ms
> malice I think was looking for a bouquet of top tens which is always fun,
> why not add one?)
>
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