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• leephillips · Jun 6, 2013 · Recommends

  Some favorites: Pale Fire by Nabokov Ulysses by Joyce Et Tu, Babe by Leyner Metamorphosis by Kafka (more a long story) Things Fall Apart by Achebe Hamlet and Coriolanus by Shakespeare The Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse The Doorbell Rang by Stout

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• leephillips · Jun 4, 2024 · Recommends

  Look into Marc Leyner, especially the novel Et Tu, Babe and anything he wrote before that. He specifically set out to create prose where each sentence could stand alone as something beautiful. I think he’s not often taken seriously because he’s simply so extremely…

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• crasshopper · Nov 9, 2010 · Mentions

  * Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban * Et Tu Babe by Mark Leyner * The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose * Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham

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