swannodette rated The Master of Go: 5 stars
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple …
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swannodette rated Improvisation: 5 stars
swannodette rated The Loser: 5 stars
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and …
swannodette rated Mumbo Jumbo: 5 stars
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In …
swannodette rated Go Tell It on the Mountain: 5 stars
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has …
swannodette rated Invisible Man: 5 stars
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in …
swannodette rated What the dormouse said--: 3 stars
What the dormouse said-- by John Markoff
An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the …
swannodette rated Hopscotch: 4 stars
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (Pantheon modern writers)
It's been called an antinovel. Has 155 chapters 99 of which are designated as "expendable".
swannodette rated 2666: 5 stars
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border …
swannodette rated The Recognitions (Penguin Classics): 5 stars
The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis
A novel of forgery, emotional and spiritual, as well as actual, with background ranging from New York and New England …
swannodette rated The Tombs of Atuan: 5 stars
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #2)
Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special …
swannodette rated A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1): 5 stars
swannodette rated Gravity's Rainbow: 5 stars
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb …