especially when it's this good.
Lots I've read but loads I haven't and want to. Pale Fire is high on the list. Hogg sounds like an interesting prospect too. I read some extracts online and it read like hardcore gay snuff porn. But better, obviously.
Anyway, it's here
and here's an improvised top 20 from me, self-important as i am. Definitely not in order of preference.
1. Infinite Jest - david foster wallace
2. Life A User's Manual - Georges Perec
3. Underworld - Don Delillo
4. Mason and Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
5. Alan Warner - the man who walks
6. Phillip K Dick - a scanner darkly
7. Phillip Roth - Sabbath's Theatre
8. Jonathan Letham - as she climbed across the table
9. Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
10. William T Vollman - The Royal Family
11. Alan Warner - these demented lands
12. Hemingway - The Sun also Rises
13. Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
14. Thomas Pynchon - V
15. Italo Calvino - if on a winter's night a traveller' - this should
actually be in the top 5 it's amazing
16. Faulkner - the sound and the fury
17. Melville - Moby Dick
18. Will Ashon - clear water - I reckon it really is actually!
19. Orwell - 1984 - obvious but it was amazing and it was the first and last
book that made me cry. What a bitch.
20. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
gosh. they're almost all yanks.
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