Jul. 21, 2009

61 'essential' postmodern reads

An LA Times list complete with cute icons to tell you if a book (for example) has an author as a character, plays with form, or ‘comments on its own bookishness,’ among other delightful postmodern tropes. As for the list itself, Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn would both make for excellent summer reading. (via)

notes
  1. illustratedmind reblogged this from closertotheocean
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  3. heylabodega reblogged this from bethlehems and added:
    I want in on a bookclub!
  4. ubiquitousamericana reblogged this from booklover
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  6. thebrowncoat reblogged this from bethlehems and added:
    Ordering my copy now too. Now I just have to READ it. Considering the massive quantities of unread books in my house,...
  7. nicolepickle reblogged this from bethlehems and added:
    remember this list, so
  8. thebrowncoat reblogged this from tsunamis and added:
    Email works (you can guess mine - take my Tumblr name and add @gmail.com - I use the same address everywhere - Twitter,...
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  10. tsunamis reblogged this from thebrowncoat and added:
    I am SO IN for the book club. Especially with House of Leaves. I swear to you, you NEED someone to talk about this book...
  11. thebrowncoat reblogged this from tsunamis and added:
    And since I only liked, but never reblogged the list…winter reading anyone? I need a Tumblr book club (tsunamis?...
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  15. an-apology reblogged this from postscryptic and added:
    I have read a number of these, and have even more on my ‘to read’ list. Excellent.
  16. bethlehems reblogged this from tsunamis and added:
    I still haven’t read House of Leaves. We may just be straight trading libraries for Christmas break.
  17. postscryptic reblogged this from booklover and added:
    libraryland:crumbler:...Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon… I’m...
  18. tsunamis reblogged this from hennypotter and added:
    House of Leaves is, almost without fail, my recommendation for anyone looking for
  19. popcornandpretty reblogged this from booklover
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  21. hennypotter reblogged this from rosalee and added:
    ginobambino:jaie:libraryland:crumbler: An LA Times list complete with cute icons to tell you if a book (for example) has...
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  24. jaie reblogged this from libraryland and added:
    Love the way this is presented.
  25. sanglots reblogged this from libraryland and added:
    must read these. must.
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