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[sadotter]

I only ever read on the subway anymore, so this list isn't as substantial as it could be.

TOP FIVE BOOKS OF 2007"Rabbit Run" - John Updike

Comments

[mandy_moon]

How did you like Valis? It was the only Philip K. Dick book I ever really got into. Kind of like how Eraserhead is the only David Lynch I ever liked all that much.

[sadotter]

"Valis" wasn't my favorite PKD book ever, but it did mesh well with a lot of the Robert Anton Wilson & Timothy Leary stuff that I read many years back, so that was kinda neat. I was also amused to watch "The Man Who Fell to Earth" a few months later, and learn that it was the movie referenced in "Valis." Funny how it's all connected...

[billetdoux]

Oh man I started Absurdistan and loved it. I wonder why I didn't finish it. I will have to pick that up.

[sadotter]

How could you not finish it??? Man, you gotta pick that back up again.

[trisloth]

I just got Red Eye/Black Eye for Christmas!

Cathy read "Surely You're Joking..." and loved it. I'll have to pick that one up soon myself.

[sadotter]

Oh yeah, you can't go wrong with either one.

[augstone]

good to see you back on here sir. how was "wake up, sir"? i always see ames when i'm looking for amis.

[sadotter]

I've read a couple of Ames' books, and they're both very breezy but fun to read. I have a feeling you might enjoy him quite a bit - I feel like he's often trying to evoke a feel of a certain era or work - reminiscent of lighthearted pokes at formal turn-of-the-century society, but all modern and neurotic-like.