Buddha's Little Finger

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• mqmouse · Aug 2, 2010 · Recommends

  …find great is Sheri Tepper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper SciFi with a feminist bent. Examples are Grass / and the Margarets. If you want something more acid, anything by Victor Pelevin. Buddha's little finger is brilliant.

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• ivm · Jun 24, 2018 · Recommends

  Novels and stories by Victor Pelevin. Only a few of his works are available in English but these are also the best ones: Buddha's Little Finger – https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Little-Finger-Victor-Pelevin/... The Yellow Arrow – https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Arrow-New-Directions-Paperbook... Hermit and Sixfinger (free) – http://pelevin.nov.ru/pov/en-hermit/1.html

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• ztauras · Sep 14, 2018 · Recommends

  Buddha's Little Finger (aka Clay Machine-Gun) / Чапаев и Пустота (Chapayev and Void) (1996) by Victor Pelevin it helped me trough my mental illness, also other works by him are very strong. Also a very good translation to…

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• topologie · Dec 17, 2021 · Recommends

  …by Stanislaw Lem (Forewords to Non-Existent Books) - Imaginary Magnitude, by Stanislaw Lem - His Master's Voice, by Stanislaw Lem (Along the same lines as Sagan's Contact, but better, way better.) - Buddha's Little Finger, by Victor Pelevin Some my favorite "non-fiction" books: - The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, edited by Robert Strassler - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon…

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