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Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Little

Top Ten List Contributor

Complete Fiction Bruno Schulz

1. The Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz
As close to a dream as writing can get.

2. Cages by Dave McKean
The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium.

3. Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac
Kerouac´s highest high.

4. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Moved me in many ways. Still does, always will.

5. Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
(ditto)

6. What Is Time?: The Classic Account of the Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
Phenomenal!

7. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Louis Borges
“I can’t see Borges anywhere!” (Donald Cammell)

8. Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film by Jack Shadoian
The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.

9. London Fields by Martin Amis
Flawless, perfect!

10. Panegyric by Guy Debord
The society of the spectacle couldn’t make it here!

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Top Ten List Contributor

Author: Top Ten List Contributor Tags: iu, top ten Category: On Literature, Your Top Ten Books May 22, 2013

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