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In years deemed to have no novels worthy of the prize, no prize is given. Even in 1974, when those who nominated fictional work unanimously granted the prize to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the jury disagreed and, calling the work bloated and overwritten, gave no award that year.
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I'd recommend Camus's The Stranger for a look at how society can indict an individual for not fitting into its image. Or Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for that matter.
If their fiction list is any indication, the Modern Library only includes American novels in its lists. Which would explain the exclusion of Wild Swans.
I know usually a moderator takes care of this thread but I love it so that I can't bear its absence at the end of the month... I can wait no longer... Sorry all!
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Things Fall...
Libra -- Don DeLillo
Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
The Master and the Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Just started last night. It'll be a nice, quick read after The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, which I suppose was a rather fast-paced read for a 600-page hulk of a book.
I didn't have any problems reading The Crying of Lot 49 within a single night. I would even go so far as to say it's compulsively readable.
The others, however, are rather daunting. I've had Gravity's Rainbow on my shelf for a while.
Off the top of my head
L.A. Confidential
Pulp Fiction
Princess Mononoke
Being John Malkovich
Goodfellas
Rushmore
The Insider
Legend of Drunken Master
Fargo
Dark City
Yep, same copy I just bought two weeks ago.
I think that theoptimist, using clandestine methods, has obtained a copy of my to-read list. Seriously, every work you nominate I've bought just days before. Seriously.
I find what sociology I've read really interesting (Habermas, Mead, C. Wright Mills, Durkheim) as well as some philosophy (Marx, Foucault, Sartre). I look forward to reading some Nietzsche and Kierkegaard soon as well.
Otherwise, I don't really read non-fiction. There is, however, one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpOSgT-osHk&search=o%27reilly%20franken
That's the fullest account I could find. It is carried by a partisan media watchdog, so it's difficult to determine how much was edited out at the end and beginning (at least 35 minutes), but there you have it.
Mine has well over two hundred, but with the completion of The Sun Also Rises and Mother Night within the past two days, I suppose I just completed one percent of it. Well on my way!