william gibson, neal stephenson, neil gaiman, guy gavriel kay, jrr tolkien, tad williams, douglas adams, susanna clark, phillip pullman, jane austen, virginia woolf, anais nin, haruki murakami, gabriel garcia marquez, ernest hemingway, margaret attwood, goscinny & uderzo, louis de bernieres, jack kerouac, f scott fitzgerald, katherine neville (the eight), lewis carroll, nicola krauss, jonathan safran foer, iain banks (the crow road), umberto eco, giuseppe di lampedusa (the leopard), em forster, as byatt, ian mcewan, andrey kurkov, dorothy parker, truman capote, colette, alexandre dumas.
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- slouching towards bethlehem (joan didion, 1961)
- a room of one’s own (virginia woolf, 1929)
- once upon a time in the north (philip pullman)
- summer crossing (truman capote)
- revolutionary road (richard yates)
- the president’s last love (andrey kurkov)
- collected stories (dorothy parker)
- the case of the general’s thumb (andrey kurkov)
- persepolis (marjane satrapi)
- penguin lost (andrey kurkov)
- passionate minds (david bodanis)
- death and the penguin (andrey kurkov)
- the paris review interviews: vol 1 (intro. philip gourevitch)
- on the road: scroll version (jack kerouac)
- spook country (william gibson)
- mrs dalloway (virginia woolf)
- surfacing (margaret attwood)
- the golden notebook (doris lessing)
- lust, caution (eileen chang)
- breakfast at tiffany’s (truman capote)
- atonement (ian mcewan)
- the noodle maker (ma jian)
- fiesta: the sun also rises (ernest hemingway)
- kafka on the shore (haruki murakami)
- everything is illuminated (jonathan safran foer)
- the history of love (nicola krauss)
- love in the time of cholera (gabrial garcia marquez)
- extremely loud and incredibly close (jonathan safran foer)
- one hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez)
- the baroque trilogy (neal stephenson)
- cryptonomicon (neal stephenson)
- pattern recognition (william gibson)





1 response so far ↓
Vanessa Patenon // August 15, 2006 at 12:26 pm |
Thanks for lending me Alain de Botton essay in love.
What amazes me is that although millions of very different individuals experience love, the love stories themselves are extremely similar.
Our ability to experience joy, pain and sorrow is the direct result of our background, education and upbringing whereas Love somehow is experienced homogeneity by all.
The shocking outcome of the book and of life in parallel is that no matter how much we are in the known about the tragedy of love we always willingly return to it.
V.P