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ooli  ·  1599 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What Book (or Books) Changed Your Life, and Why?

13 year old: Dune, Herbert, the institutions are bad, but you can trick them

16 : The stranger, Camus, you dont have to care about the world

17 : Les fleurs du mal, Baudelaire, women and cities are beautiful

18 : The golem, Meyrink.. cities are dreamlike at night

19 : Les nuits de Paris, Restif de la Bretonne, Paris in medieval time at night, was almost like it is in modern time, some things never changes

20 : The world according to Garp, Irving , there is so many randomness in the live of a guy, you should accept it

21 : A History of Eternity, Borges ; reality can be enhanced by fiction, or the other way around, or they just are the same (still my favorite)

22 : Less than zero, Ellis (it tickle the same spot as The Stranger, with more energy)

24 : La recherche du temps Perdu, Proust (funnier writer ever, just a lot to skip in between funny bits)

25 : Whatever , Houellebeck (same itch as The stanger, with a gloomer but somehow funnier approach)

  Beside Houellebeck, I read all of them twice. More for Herbert. And Way more for Borges

Nothing since then.. So it mean, I'm brain dead





darlinareyousleepy  ·  1599 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A Collection of Short Stories comprised of Jorge Luis Borges would be one of my first choices as well.

Labyrinths in particular was what impacted me the most.

user-inactivated  ·  1599 days ago  ·  link  ·  

as always, i find your sparse comments incredibly fun/valuable