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briandmyers  ·  3910 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.  ·  

Off the top of my head - not always deep, just good reads :

"A Confederacy of Dunces" - John Kennedy O'Toole.

"A Prayer for Owen Meany" - John Irving.

"A Song of Ice and Fire" - George R.R. Martin. Better than the show, and the show is good.

"Slaughterhouse Five" - Kurt Vonnegut (hell, all Vonnegut, okay?)

I'm probably forgetting some really good stuff though. "Godel Escher Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter is interesting and fun, but it gets really deep in later chapters; deserves a re-read, but the first 1/2 or so is pretty accessible. I really liked "V" by Thomas Pynchon but I couldn't say exactly why, and I know a lot of the more subtle stuff in there went right over my head.