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• wrycoder · May 27, 2018 · Recommends

  …Naples than Singapore. If by 'time' we mean nothing more than happening, then everything is time. There is only that which exists in time." Very influential in my teens: Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner USA by John Dos Passos Cache Lake Country by Rowlands

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• wrycoder · Mar 29, 2020 · Recommends

  Very influential in my teens: Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner USA by John Dos Passos Cache Lake Country by Rowlands First adult book I read all the way through (I was fascinated! Re-read it recently and enjoyed it.): The Mysterious Island by Verne

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• montalbano · Dec 8, 2018 · Recommends

  …'U.S.A' by John Dos Passos. It's a great read. A quote from Adam himself: "The biggest influence I’ve ever had was actually a novel my father gave me to read at the age of about 13. It was a novel called USA by John Dos Passos. At that age, it just got me. You can trace back everything I do to that novel because it’s all about grand history, individual experience, their relationship. And also collages, quotes…

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• majos · Jan 4, 2020 · Mentions

  …focus. So read books! Along the same lines, the time and mental investment required to read a book, for me, produces a unique kind of immersive return. For example, I’m currently reading John Dos Passos’ USA trilogy. It is 1000+ pages of fiction about 1900-1930 America, and it takes time. But that time has given me a rich picture of what the period was like, written by a guy who lived it. Both because I’m…

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