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Excellent. I was going to start a new thread fishing for recommendations, but this might work just as well...
Off the top of my head, in no order:
Skylark - Dezso Kosztolanyi The War with the Newts - Karel Capek Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Loser - George Konrad Arcadia - Tom Stoppard *The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
(Though Dickens and Woolf should really have been in there, I can't decide which ones...)
(edit: when I originally typed this post of yesterday, before I lost my internet connection, I had remembered to include Lenz, but it slipped my mind somewhere between yesterday and today...)
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not claiming to have an intimate knowledge of all these, but...
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White Thomas Hardy, Jude The Obscure John Milton, Paradise Lost Swift, Gulliver's Travels
or, if we're talking C20th...
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister Franz Kafka, The Trial George Orwell, 1984 Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis Dune - Frank Herbert Forge of God - Greg Bear Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami Birdsong - Ian McEwan
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Hobbes, Birdsong was Sebastian Faulkes wasn't it? An excellent book though. Your list is the closest to mine yet, what exquisite taste you have.
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Erm, yes it was. God knows how I managed that. And my salutations to you too sir. You have an excellent eye for fiction yourself.
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Picking two is easy, as they are by some distance my favourites ever:
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
After that there's a whole load to think of. I guess I would add the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and Romeo and Juliet pretty quick, but I'm hesitant to say for sure for fear of excluding many others.
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A Hazard of Hearts, Barbara Cartland Kane & Abel, Jeffrey Archer Hotel, Arthur Hailey Broken Music: Memoirs, Sting Beyond Basic Woodturning, Mark Baker
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Money, Martin Amis Nineteen eighty four, George Orwell Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut L'Etranger/The Outsider, Albert Camus The Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
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The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek The Beiderbecke Trilogy - Alan Plater Scoop - Evelyn Waugh Arcadia - Jim Crace Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
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Cheers PG. I haven't actually finished Svejk yet. I started it about three summers ago, and keep reading the odd 30 pages and moving on to something else instead. It is very very funny, but a little hard going in places. (From your list, I've only read Brideshead. Is that an awful admission?)
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Go on, recommend one to start with. (Not Wuthering Heights though...)
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Seriously, it's an excellent book. Obsessive, powerful, violent, gripping and mad. I anticipated some piece of clever-clever girly slush and was stunned by what I found.
If you really refuse to touch it then go for A Confederacy of Dunces (especially seeing as you like Scoop).
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