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[electric_jesus]

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what books (or novellas or poets or whatever) were groundbreaking for you? made you understand darkness or light, made you see the world differently than ever before? i am concerned with the epic.

& do you have an lj recomendations? i've been on a new lj friends search as of late.

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[boatmusic]

j.d. salinger's stuff on one end of the spectrum. gabriel garcia marquez at the other.

with poetry, brautigan on one end. perhaps... c.k. williams on the other.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/stormybrain

[glasdraad]

ishmael by daniel quinn
and... wow. when i was 13 i read the celestine prophecy. very embarrassing in hindsight, but i was 13, ok?

[accentuating]

hm.

i like chopin's The Awakening, even though most don't. I also love Frank McCourt and j.d. salinger, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was pretty interesting when I read it at 13.

I like Pablo Neruda, but the translations in english don't do justice to his words in spanish.

demedulce

[bloodoranges]

books: the.powerbook by jeanette winterson; sophie's choice by william styron (not to be confused with sophie's world by someone else); and if this is a man by primo levi affected me hugely, perhaps more so as a non-practising jew, brought up to be orthodox. it expains entirely why i am not religious.

livejournals: housesonthesea is gorgeous, and so is the_sea_the_sea.

i've missed you!!

[kittiemyst]

(mo's helping me, i haven't read all of them)
-the road less traveled (but you read it)
-the celestine prophecy
-jonathan livingston seagull
-dancing wuly(sp?) masters

[electric_jesus]

wu li :) i've read it before, and road less travelled but not the other two