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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I'll admit, I only just made it through Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas, and never finished Fierce Invalids In Hot Climates, though I did thoroughly enjoy the three books I earlier mentioned.
(Sincere question) In light of the OPs original post, do you have suggestions of other authors, hidari? There is self-interest here - I'm interested for my own TBR list too.
Cheers,
Marc
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Well, Cheers for the question. I think Pynchon is a bit of his own style...A la Tom Waits in Music.... but... for Difficult or unusual lit master pieces...
I think Michael Bulgakov's
Master and Margarita is excellent. I lived in Russia for many years and many a Fellow Russian told me that that was the best book ever written in Russian.
A few other Lit books I would recoment:
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
Silence by Shusako Endo
Both of the above being historical....
Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man is a beauty as well and gets a bit pychonesque at times..
Nadine Gordimer is a great writer but I find her slow in bits...
A great book that won the Booker in the 70's is
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee ....short sweet and deep......
Faulkner's
The Sound and the Fury classic lit...but start with the 4th part otherwise it will drive you crazy..
so read Part IV, Then I, II, and III
just a few...but not sure if that helps....