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# ''Confessions of a Mask'', Yukio [[Mishima]], on homosexuality in wartime Japan; I put the more urgent ''Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' on my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_May_reading_list:_Sade,_Nabe_and_Mishima.|May reading list]]. | # ''Confessions of a Mask'', Yukio [[Mishima]], on homosexuality in wartime Japan; I put the more urgent ''Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' on my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_May_reading_list:_Sade,_Nabe_and_Mishima.|May reading list]]. | ||
# ''Billy-Ze-Kick'', Jean Vautrin, recommended by [[Henri Guillemin]] [http://goo.gl/UY2fl2]. | # ''Billy-Ze-Kick'', Jean Vautrin, recommended by [[Henri Guillemin]] [http://goo.gl/UY2fl2]. | ||
− | # ''Le camp des Saints'', Jean Raspail. | + | # ''<s>[[Le camp des Saints]]</s>'', Jean Raspail. |
+ | #* Premonitory. | ||
# <s>Catch-22</s>, major contemporary work that sets out the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic) catch-22 fallacy]. | # <s>Catch-22</s>, major contemporary work that sets out the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic) catch-22 fallacy]. | ||
#* Disappointing. Too clever, the same trick ad nauseam quickly tired me. As compared to Slaughterhouse 5, this is mere litterature. | #* Disappointing. Too clever, the same trick ad nauseam quickly tired me. As compared to Slaughterhouse 5, this is mere litterature. | ||
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# ''Ivanhoe'', [[Walter Scott]] (made [[Ashby de la Zouche]]'s castle famous). | # ''Ivanhoe'', [[Walter Scott]] (made [[Ashby de la Zouche]]'s castle famous). | ||
# [[Kary Mullis]]' [http://www.karymullis.com/pdf/thoughts-books.pdf reading list] (itself a must-read), including Julian Barbour's "The End of Time", Max G. Gergel's "Excuse Me Sir, Would you like to buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide" or David Bohm's "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". | # [[Kary Mullis]]' [http://www.karymullis.com/pdf/thoughts-books.pdf reading list] (itself a must-read), including Julian Barbour's "The End of Time", Max G. Gergel's "Excuse Me Sir, Would you like to buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide" or David Bohm's "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". | ||
+ | # All of [[Burgess]], or almost, starting with a selection of his most-interesting looking pieces after those [[Blog:Fabrice/My_biblical_Burgess_reading_list|already read]]: | ||
+ | ## [[1985]], Burgess' take on [[1984]], can't be missed (top of the list). | ||
+ | ## [[Napoleon Symphony]], no comments necessary. | ||
+ | ## [[The End of the World News]], following [[Trotsky]], [[Freud]] and the future. | ||
+ | ## [[M/F]], unclear what this is but Burgess' own personal favourite. | ||
+ | ## [[Blog:Fabrice/My_biblical_Burgess_reading_list|Biblical trilogy]]: [[Moses]], [[Man of Nazareth]] and [[The Kingdom of the Wicked]]. | ||
+ | ## [[Any old iron]], seemingly with the same epic journey throughout history than in Earthly Powers, which was one of the highly appealing features of the novel. | ||
+ | ## [[One Hand Clapping]] on the demise of Western culture. | ||
+ | ## [[The Wanting Seed]] on overpopulation. | ||
+ | ## [[The Right to an Answer]] on returning from exile. | ||
+ | ## [[A Vision of Battlements]] his first novel, written in [[Gibraltar]] during [[WW2]]. | ||
+ | ## The "exotic novels": [[Time for a Tiger]], [[The Enemy in the Blanket]], [[Beds in the East]] and [[Devil of a State]]. | ||
+ | ## The Enderby series: [[Inside Mr Enderby]], [[Enderby Outside]], [[Enderby's End]] (aka "the Clockwork Testament") and [[No End to Enderby]] (aka "Enderby's Dark Lady"). | ||
+ | ## [[An Essay on Censorship]], as title says. | ||
+ | ## [[Homage to Qwert Yuiop]], essay on journalism. | ||
+ | ## [[One Man's Chorus]], latest pieces (essay, articles...) | ||
+ | ## [[The Doctor Is Sick]]. | ||
+ | ## [[The Pianoplayers]], a similar title to [[Vonnegut]]'s first novel. | ||
+ | ## [[Little Wilson and Big God]] and [[You've Had Your Time]], biographies. | ||
I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now. | I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now. |
in no particular order (I aggregate at the end). Entries striken through are those I finally read (maybe with a line or not commenting on my experience).
A good source of suggestions is thegreatestbooks.org that compiles various lists of "best books".
I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now.