lol, no...all for me?

[Guest gogoblender]

Hey guys!

 

Ayup...lol, this is one of my good friends telling me to lay off the computer and get back to reading!

 

One of my friends who's like a super literratti, super film reviewer, great artist and rugby player is gonna be takin off fer a while. And so fer a pretty cool and very clever going away present, I got a gift. Yeah...a list. It was a list of books that he'd read over his lifetime (he's 25) that he put down on nice paper as recommendations for me. This is one of those dudes who wrote an almost perfect SAT score and was accepted inta Harvard right from high school. And...my friend's funny too!

 

He wrote the list as a recommendation for me based on what he knows about me and...since he's known me fer almost ten years...I'm thinkin the list may be good.

 

Well, here's the list. Heh, I'm holding this list close to me as I'm sher it's insurance against boredom, will fuel journeys to enjoy and provide me with new worlds to visit. I'm wondering if any of you guys have read any of the stuff on it? I recognize a few of the authors and some of them are rather esosteric to me. But the collection is quite eclectic and there are some absolutley marvellous ones that I'm planning to get my hands on real quick. Just like that and in a few minutes later...he'd quickly scribed the list for me complete with authors!

 

I figger I'll just go down to the coles book store once a week, take out my list , present it to the person workin there and just say:

 

"please pick a book from this list and I'll buy it!"

 

Thanks fer the awesome gift Mike. Best of wishes on your journey friend.

 

1-Perfume: Patrick Suskind

2-The Elementary Particles: MIcheel Houelleberg

3-Galatea 2.2 : Richard Powers

4-Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the World: Haruki Murakami

5-A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami

6-The Code Book: Simon Singh

7-Nexus: Mark Buchanan

8-The Dyer's Hand: W.H. Auden

9-Lunch Poems: Frank O'Hara

10-Persuasion: Jane Austin

Fairy Tales: Oscar Wilde

11-A supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: David Foster Wallace

12-Franny and Zoey: Salinger

13-The Red Notebook: Paul Auster

14-The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster

15-Complete Fictions: Jorge Luis Borges

16-Air Guitar: Dave HIckey

17-A Hero of our Tiime: Lermontov

18-London Fields: Martin Amis

19-Mutataions: Rem Koolhaus

20-Delerious New York: Kool haus

21-A picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde

22-Brief Interviews with HIdeous Men: David Foster Wallace

23-Me Talk Pretty One Day: David Sedaris

24-How I bought Andy Warhol

25-Letters to a young POet: Rilke

26-L'etranger : Camus

27-The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon

28-Dead Souls: Gogol

29-Beowulf: (Seamus Heaney Trans.)

30-Invisible Cities: Italo Calvino

31-American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis

32-Jonathan STrange & Mr. Norrell: Susanna Clarke

 

 

 

gogo

[erialc 2]

GoGo, What an amazing present. A real gift I recognise a few of those books and I guess you've got a lot of journeying to do there, you'll really love it and I hope that you'll share this journey with us all in your great threads to come.

 

What an awesome friend you have

[WuSu 0]

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[Guest gogoblender]

hahahah!

 

I"m sorry man...I just can't stop laughin at yer avatar!

 

hahah, post more, it's hysterical!

 

And thank you fer the link Wusu...I'll check it and get back asap!

 

gogo

[Cth 0]

Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits

 

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