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What're your favorite books?
I could perhaps be called an artsy snob for this, but one of my absolute favorite novels is House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. I've always found the concept of labyrinths to be fascinating, as well as that of the inherent uncertainty in the image of reality presented to us by our sensory perception. This book features those two themes quite prominently, and explores them to a depth I've not seen in any other books I've yet read.
This next one might also reflect questionably on my character, but nonetheless I greatly enjoyed American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I've struggled a lot with recurrent depersonalization, feelings of dread, and a general impression of isolation from those around me. Since the book addresses all of that, it resonated with me in that regard–though, not so much with some of the other stuff it describes.
I also love tons of H. P. Lovecraft's and Jorge Luis Borges's work, but those are predominantly short stories, not novels.
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L'Amant by Duras, I read it when I was 17 and could not help reading and loving it even if I had no free time since I must prepare for university.
I can not read french but the translation is just amazing.
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My favorite books would be:
Zhuangzi
Journey to the West
The Mahabharata
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i really liked:
germinial - emil zola
confessions of the mask - mishima
stranger - camus
pharaoh - prus (although stopped in the middle, movie is nice too)
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When Marnie Was There. I didn't expect it to be that at all.
