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[brightenyourday]

There are a number of books in my life that have become good-feeling books, that from time to time and situation to situation I will randomly remember parts of them and they will correlate perfectly.
Each book evokes very different and un-related feelings from me but each feel equally terrific to read again and again.
Among these books are The

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[trainedseal]

my favorite book of all time is Pale Fire by Nabokov, but it's totally odd and most people probably wouldn't like it. Then again, you're so much cooler than most people.
also, if you haven't read The Sound and the Fury or Ulysses, DO SO! But read them with notes. It's not a mark of failure. It's totally necessary with these two books. Such great stuff, though.
one really terrific book i read recently was Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. It's so much fun.
also, how do you feel about Hemingway.

[brightenyourday]

oh Andrew! as you are reading this I am probably in the middle of Pale Fire. It is odd, but very engrossing. I read Lolita some time ago and also I discovered a very old and out of print Nabokov called Transparent Things. It isn't quite as abstract as the other two but if you are a Nabokov fan you should definitely find it and read it, because it is simple and good.
The Sound and the Fury was my first Faulkner, which I did without notes, but when I read Ulysses I had the annotated open and next to me the entire time.
Hemingway and I never got along until I found The Sun Also Rises, which features only one bull fight. I begrudgingly got through For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms. His subject matter is not at all enticing to me. If I were a man who liked guns I might be more interested. I personally love the way the fellow wrote, and wish he had written more passive works. Do you get along with Hemingway?

[anonymous]

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius