Listmania!
bored of Orwell and Camus?
Foucault's PendulumFoucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
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a little long, but full of useless information. Eco is a megalomaniac data-vacuum.
"The Bald Soprano", and Other Plays"The Bald Soprano", and Other Plays by Eugaene Ionesco
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'Oh!' you will say- 'how can something which makes so little sense be so beautiful?' but that would be to miss the point.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics)If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
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Needs no introduction.
Will You Please be Quiet, Please?Will You Please be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
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I just remembered actually I meant to find that Chekov thing
The Poems of DrydenThe Poems of Dryden
Certainly the poems are good. But
The Age of Wire and String (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))The Age of Wire and String (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by B Marcus
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This will make you wish you couldnt read! Its cool.
Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics)Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
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Yes well I had to get at least one novel about a whale in here.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Vintage Classics)Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Vintage Classics) by Roland Barthes
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Moving and lucid, this is the opposite of normal critical theory.
Ecrits: A SelectionEcrits: A Selection by J Lacan
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A good translation, but this is not the opposite of normal critical theory. Read it and sneer at people.
Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Oh god... how did this get in here? they must just put it into everybody's selections as some kind of socially prescriptive excercise. Scheming modernist nerds..