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28 Dec 2021, 3:45 am

Hot Water Music, by Charles Bukowski.
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, by Charles Bukowski.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy.
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs.
My Education: A Book Of Dreams, by William Burroughs.
Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard.
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti.
Breakfast Of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales Of Horror, by H.P. Lovecraft.
'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King.
The Night Ocean, by Paul La Farge.

I'm sure there are far more I'm just not remembering at the moment.


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28 Dec 2021, 5:18 am

a house for mr biswas - naipaul
a fine balance - r mistry
under the volcano - lowry
riding the red rooster - theroux
wild swans three daughters of china - jung chang
the general in his labyrinth -gm marquez
the prague cemetary -eco
the fall - camus
voyage au bout de la nuit -celine
notes from underground -dostojevsky
de waanzinnige veertiende eeuw - barbara tuchman > A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century.
very impressed with helene nothenius; toscany in middle ages
anna karenina - tolstoy
enemies - ib singer

(Fredriksson, Marianne is translated but not in english??)
i go more by writers, eg; ib singer, gm marquez, vs naipaul, f dostojevski, l tolstoy, m toonder, r van gullik, wf hermans, charles dickens, etc & lots more dutch writers too
this is not a book but still a favorit read :mrgreen: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/job

and lots of ; nature, atlasses, cook- and gardening books, art & architecture, spy and dectective, comics, dictionaries
children books, fairy tales (around the world) for young and old
oh "the flounder", a mix of history, feminism, cooking and fairy tales
rofl with ; The Manipulated Man - Esther Vilar



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28 Dec 2021, 5:39 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Hot Water Music, by Charles Bukowski.
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, by Charles Bukowski.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy.
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs.
My Education: A Book Of Dreams, by William Burroughs.
Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard.
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti.
Breakfast Of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales Of Horror, by H.P. Lovecraft.
'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King.
The Night Ocean, by Paul La Farge.

I'm sure there are far more I'm just not remembering at the moment.


How could I have forgotten:

The Metamorphosis And Other Stories, by Franz Kafka.


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30 Dec 2021, 6:45 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Hot Water Music, by Charles Bukowski.
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, by Charles Bukowski.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy.
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs.
My Education: A Book Of Dreams, by William Burroughs.
Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard.
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti.
Breakfast Of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales Of Horror, by H.P. Lovecraft.
'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King.
The Night Ocean, by Paul La Farge.

I'm sure there are far more I'm just not remembering at the moment.


How could I have forgotten:

The Metamorphosis And Other Stories, by Franz Kafka.


It's totally okay, Sir Kraichgauer! :wink:

IMO, Kafka will always be in the same ranks as Lovecraft, Poe, Stephen King, and many more!


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30 Dec 2021, 7:19 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Hot Water Music, by Charles Bukowski.
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, by Charles Bukowski.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy.
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs.
My Education: A Book Of Dreams, by William Burroughs.
Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard.
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti.
Breakfast Of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales Of Horror, by H.P. Lovecraft.
'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King.
The Night Ocean, by Paul La Farge.

I'm sure there are far more I'm just not remembering at the moment.


How could I have forgotten:

The Metamorphosis And Other Stories, by Franz Kafka.


It's totally okay, Sir Kraichgauer! :wink:

IMO, Kafka will always be in the same ranks as Lovecraft, Poe, Stephen King, and many more!


Indeed!


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01 Jan 2022, 4:07 pm

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Samuel Beckett - Nohow On

Comfort in rhythm.



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01 Jan 2022, 4:24 pm

The Voynich manuscript.

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02 Jan 2022, 3:43 am

^My dad also has this. Its one of his special interests.



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02 Jan 2022, 3:46 am

^ Also a favorite of bibliophile , and mind-expanding proponent, Terrence Mckenna.


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