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Old 08-27-2017, 12:31 AM   #28
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If you don't mind allegorical deconstructions of academia, and none of them light reading, there are:
  1. Magister Ludi/The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
  2. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
  3. Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Like Vonnegut, Barth was first recommended to me by someone who could easily have been a character from one of his books.
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