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Friday, March 9, 2007

Books At a Loss for a Good Book?

Posted by Chas Bowie on Fri, Mar 9 at 12:00 PM

In the comments of a blog post I made yesterday, readers and Mercury writers are piling on with their lists of all time favorite books and recent enthusiams. This post, plus the gray sky outside, makes me want to do nothing more than lie on the sofa and read all day. Be sure to chime in with your favorites.

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Anything by Richard Powers. Anything by Milorad Pavic. And, no, you can't have my first edition Franny & Zooey.

Posted by b!X | March 9, 2007 12:04 PM

APATHY and other small victories by Paul Neilan. its HEEELarious!

Posted by agirl | March 9, 2007 1:50 PM

Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
Independence Day,The Sportswriter,Lay of the Land - Richard Ford
Black Gangster - Donald Goines (seriously, he writes amazing gangsta ish!)
Choke - Chuck Palanichuk

Posted by MikeLovesYou | March 9, 2007 1:56 PM

The Littlest Hitler - Ryan Boudinot is an amazing short story collection.

Posted by Orf | March 9, 2007 2:10 PM

Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Bones of the Master - George Crane

Posted by greenpeas | March 9, 2007 4:22 PM

anything by Jose Saramago
The Magus by John Fowles
Richard Brautigan
Will Self

Posted by rico | March 9, 2007 5:26 PM

Child of God and Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy
Winterwood, The Dead School, and Carn-Patrick McCabe
The White Boy Shuffle-Paul Beatty
Youth in Revolt immediately followed by Revolting Youth-C.D. Payne

McCarthy and McCabe if you want to feel depressed. Beatty and Payne if you want to laugh your ass off.

Posted by Christopher | March 10, 2007 2:34 AM

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