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Guns, Germs and Steel, overdue for a read. I don't get around to non-fiction much, though.
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On the Road. I can't say it was that good. There's a kind of artless fun to the writing, I guess, but it's definitely more interesting as an inside look at influential personalities in the early Beat days than it is as prose, although a few passages are exceptions.
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Madame Bovary. Sweet baby CHRIST how did it take me so long to get around to reading this amazing, amazing book? Maybe because the title sounds boring, to the English-speaking ear at least. But it is gripping and beautiful and devastating, and every other sentence is a little masterpiece unto itself. Straight into my top ten, bitches, straight in there.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I'm a complete sucker for stories with amnesiac protagonists who wake up on mysterious spaceships. I just finished Middlemarch by George Eliot. Masterful examination of naivete and experience, and the preliminary infatuation and subsequent disillusionment of marriage. It's so important that this book is long: it needs time to feel realistic in these areas, plus it's fascinating to see how the lives of the characters gradually intertwine.
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