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i've tons too, ultra short list
Under the volcano by Malcolm Lowry
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul,
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

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Yeah, I have a long list too but highlights:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - a puzzle-box of a book and the best example of ergodic fiction I know of. I read it when I was about 20 and it's haunted me ever since. Both in terms of the story and the knowledge that I will never be able to write anything anywhere near as good.

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - I read this for the first time when I was 12 and I've returned to it many times over the years. The reason I think it's a great book (and I know lots of people hate it with a passion) is that every time I read it I'm different (i.e. older) and it speaks to me in a different way.

Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy - widely considered to be Hardy's least impressive novel but I love it, not least because it's set where I live but I also genuinely think the story is excellent up until the end and I find the ending humorous because Hardy clearly just got bored with it and wrapped it up in a highly unlikely paragraph.

Woof by Alan Ahlberg - a really great children's book that I read when young. I guess this may be where my love of magic realism started. I love that the premise (boy turns into a dog and then back a few times) is never explained, although the protagonists theorise over it endlessly.

Tenth of December by George Saunders - is a book of shorts. More or less anything by GS is excellent (although I didn't love his novel).

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Here's some of my fave fiction.


Villette
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Ruth
Hester
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sister Carrie
The Portrait of a Lady
Charlotte's Web
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bell Jar
L'Étranger
Possession


*Not sure which I'd pick from Thomas Hardy ^

I love Tess and she's stayed with me the longest.
I also loved Casterbridge and The Well-Beloved.
I just finished Desperate Remedies - very slow but a great ending.
Then there's Jude, etc. All brilliant.
I think Two on a Tower and Ethelberta are the only two of his I haven't read.


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The Hacienda - Peter Hook
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

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The Metamorphosis
Fahrenheit 451
The Jungle Book
Fight Club
Slaughterhouse 5
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Dune

I'm sure there's more, but these are the ones I can think of right now.

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Dune, Frank Herbert
The City and the Stars, Arthur C Clarke
The Hour of the Dragon, Robert E Howard
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - better than LOTR imo
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

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Arthur C. Clarke's "Space Odyssey" Series
Cujo, Stephen King
The Long Walk, also by Stephen King
The Time Machine, by HG Wells

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O B. Bommel -series, that one you can't find on the net anymore, search more specific?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_B._Bumble
magic-realism with current news in the (old) animal-form
not all that translatable, because the writer makes up words and expressions quite a bit




question:
- do you like comics, what is/are your favorite??

When I was a kid I used to get the Beano every week. It's something of a British institution, been going since the 1940s and is, I believe, the last remaining kids comic still being published.

The US comics, the superhero ones, never had any appeal for me. I liked jokes and nonsense.

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Ditto that. I used to get the Beano fifty years ago. I'm still into that sort of silly humour. Denis the Menace for the win!

Do you consider yourself fully grown up or still a bit childish in some ways?

Pretty childish in many ways - my videogame compulsion is just one example. I think a large part of me still lives in 1970-73.

At what age did you first travel abroad?

Childish sense of humour and come across as naive.

I was five when I first travelled abroad.

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I'm assuming that Jersey and the Isle of Man don't count, so it would have to be France at age 20.

Do you have a paid membership of any online sites?

Does deliveroo, Netflix and Disney+ count?

I want one for the New Statesman because I like reading articles by Nicholas Lezard.

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The Daily Telegraph (Torygraph) - £12.99 per month.

Do you watch any live sport on TV?

I watch a bit of Olympics, and usually put the hockey game on Saturday nights if I'm with my partner.
Playoffs of local teams, yes.


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