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bintshaqra  ·  4106 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

All of these books have some kind of a magical realism, or post-modernism element. So if you're not into it I would skip over this list. 1) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 2) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 3) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 4) The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie 5) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez





jkim57  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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user-inactivated  ·  4105 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner at his best IMO.

bintshaqra  ·  4105 days ago  ·  link  ·  

100%. His ability to write perspectives and characters in that book, besides an incredibly evolving plot, wowed me.