"If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from!" -Sei Shonagon.

[knockabout]

So I've been reading at a fairly steady pace this summer; a habit I'm working to hold onto.

My recent reading list (in no particular order):

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

(reread) The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

A Confederacy of Dunces by John

Comments

[nex0s]

You just read a number of my favorite books! Here are some more:

Neil Gaiman: American Gods
Susannah Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr.Norrell
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age
Dan Simmonds: Illium, followed by Olympos

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[la_directora]

Waiter Rant was awesome. You'd find it hysterical for many of the same painfully personal reasons I did, I suspect. :)

If you haven't read Omnivore's Dilemma or In Defense of Food yet, I highly recommend both.

[hangingfire]

Some Iain M. Banks, perhaps? Player of Games is a good starting point.

Re Murakami: I'd also recommend Kafka on the Shore.

I'm currently re-reading Mother London by Michael Moorcock and being amazed at what a brilliant book it is, and how poorly I appreciated that when I first read it (to be fair, that was something like eighteen years ago, and I was much stupider then). You might also enjoy his Dancers at the End of Time books, for which see: An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, The End of All Songs, and Legends from the End of Time. The first three can be found in a single-volume omnibus, if you're lucky.