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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Kafka and Vonnegut are sublime. If you like those, should definitely check out a good translation of Patrick Suskind, starting with Parfum, and the Pigeon, The Death OF Mr Somner, these books are perfect in that self-reflective film noir kind of fiction that is realistic surrealism with a kind of biting sarcasm that is not quite bitter or nihilistic or even pessimistic, more like the true artistic sense of melancholy and melodrama, or even more particularly the ideal Greek comedy (which is not quite funny by modern tastes)

I have an ecclectic taste in literature, I prefer non-fiction and history and theology texts, but I do enjoy my certain flavors of fiction. I also liked Julius Caesar and Hamlet and a Midsummer Night's Dream.. I like classics like Alexander Dumas or Gabriel Garcia-Marquez or even Homer. I have ready absolutely every single thing written by Clive Barker, and I will continue to do so in the future. Ray Bradbury fascinates me but he sort of gets a bit redundant with that whole Mars thing, but a lot of it is a gem. Huxley of course, but Brave New World is perfect whereas Ape and Essence is sort of lame actually. Chuck Palahniuk would be better if he knew any adverbs or impressive dialogue, but I enjoy the kind of free-associative style it has with a bit of grit, it just could be SOOOO much better. Surprisingly I really enjoyed these two Anne Rice novels this cool homeless lady I kick it with gave me, The Violen and the Angel, and they are both really good because they are not about vampires, but vampirish musicians, but I like anything not overtly Churchy but written from a rather religious perspective so I like Anne Rice in that regard, she nails it in the less vampire novels. Arturo Perez Reverte is also the shit, it mixes my two favorite subjects, deep religious lore and drug running, absolutely pure genius!
I don't care what you say, Carlos Castaneda is remarkable. I wish I had read some Jules Verne and I just got my first collection of short stories by Rohl Daal today. ..

Thanx, I will check out Suskind, hope there is Finnish translations available (i´m not very fast reader and in english I could read maybe a book in a year!). I read also a many years a ago some of the Shakepears´s plays and liked them quite a lot. From the classics I liked also Rabellais. I have thought I read Cervantes Don Quiote sometime in the future. I have read some Marquez books, he´s ok but not my favourite. If I remembered correct, I have also read Bradbyry and Parker´s book and Bradbury was ok, but Parker wasn´t. Huxley´s Brand new world is great! Somebody mentioned also Poe, he´s also one of my favourite!!! If I understand correct, you haven´t read any Russian literature. I think you will like Dostoevsky: the Brothers Karamazov or Bulgakov: Master and Margarita.