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oh yeah...thanks for the nice list comment too.

cancer vs. capricorn I love both The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn...almost equally. However, I love the energy and almost the sensation of movement that Miller conveys in his writing and I felt that in Capricorn his philosophical ramblings kind of ruined the pace of the novel...

Just finished Crash by J. G. Ballard. The concept was original, but over the course of the novel it became pretty redundant.

Journey to the End of the Night is out.

I've read it. It was decent, but I was a bit disappointed in it since it had recieved so much hype. It was pretty high up on the Modern Libraries list of the best books of the 20th century. I read it about a week before it became one of Oprah's book picks which was pretty ironic since I always...

Oh yeah and... Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky I can't believe I forgot Dostoevsky.

Current Top 5... Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hunger - Knut Hamsun Journey to the End of the Night - Celine Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

I'd have to say that The Awakening is one of the most overrated books I have ever read. The entire book is an account of the despair of an upperclass housewife. The whole time I was reading it I was thinking, "why doesn't she just divorce her husband, escape such an oppressive society, and end...

top 3 It's too hard to pick only three. So, here are just three of my all time favorites. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Hunger - Knut Hamsun Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov