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Timidity's Canon My ventricles cacophony indecision at the interlopers ontological phenomenology. Franz Joseph the Second of Austria composes intricate calligraphies on the quietude of my id. Hark! Causality segregates the withering proletariat Spahi vicariously upon a figurative spear...

They Were I'm carrying the blood of Napoleon from when Way back he sailed the Atlantic it seems; He and his boat full of slaves on their route from Africa, nowhere particular on the whole continent, to The Miramachi. And while there, so says my Grandmother, In her kitchen table talk this...

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Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red Jeff Collins - Introducing Derrida

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka(Dover Thrift Editions) "Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka’s most perfect work), plus "The...

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Margaret Atwood - Surfacing 5.5/10 W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe 8/10 Timothy Findley - The Wars 9/10 Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History Doctor Faustus 8.5/10

The Arcade Fire - In the Back Seat

Controversy! Seconding Charles Bukowski. Al Purdy Jonathan Safran Foer

Not really beautiful within the context of what the words themselves mean, but "Slaughterhouse Five" is very beautiful to the ear.

Read "Testament" by Nino Ricci. Great humanist version of the life of Jesus.

if I were to start a Paul Verlaine thread, do you think it would shoot this thread in a drunken rage?

Well, it's not actually a destruction of the fourth wall, but the destruction of one while another is erected. Both Fifth Business and Midnight's Children have an altered first person narration. Midnight's children is written from the standpoint of a man who is writing his memoirs before he...

About 4/5th's of the time I get books at used bookstores, there are about ten of them within walking distance, and I like going into a store with no preconceptions of what I want to buy, and having something old and obscure just jump out at me. Occasionally when I want something specific, I'll...

I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Maybe Franz Kafka, or Kate Chopin?

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk and a book about the legend of the Wandering Jew.

First person stream of consciousness, when well done, is most likely my favorite. I also really like it when a book successfully breaks down the fourth wall (ex. Midnight's Children, Fifth Business, etc.)

I've never read any of her stuff, it definitely DIDN'T seem like my thing. Can anyone tell me though, is she any relation to W.P. Kinsella?

There was a sale going on in the atrium of a mall today, with the proceeds going to the Provincial Women's Conservatory Society or somesuch. For $3, I got James Joyce - Portrait of the artist as a young man & Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out