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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights: (Penguin Classics) By AA. VV.
LA Maison De Rendez-Vous and Djinn By Alain Robbe-Grillet
Ghost at Noon By Alberto Moravia
Finished on Jul 25, 2009

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Island By Aldous Huxley
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan By Aldous Huxley
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
A Tale of Love and Darkness By Amos Oz
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) By Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk, Herman Melville
The Invisible Man: (Penguin Classics) By Andy Sawyer, Christopher Priest, Herbert Gordon Wells
Earthly Powers By Anthony Burgess
The Complete Maus By Art Spiegelman
In the Shadow of No Towers By Art Spiegelman
2001: A Space Odyssey By Arthur C. Clarke
A Social History of England: (Penguin History) By Asa Briggs
Indecision By Benjamin Kunkel
A Short History of Nearly Everything By Bill Bryson
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: (Calvin and Hobbes (Paperback)) By Bill Watterson
Dracula By Bram Stoker
American Psycho By Bret Easton Ellis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: (Narnia) By C.S. Lewis
The Chosen: (Bloom's Guides) By Chaim Potok
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China By Chang Jung
The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) By Charles Barber
Factotum By Charles Bukowski
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    Down & Out with Bukowski

    Factotum is the 2nd book by Bukowski I've read (after Post Office), and so far, they have been very much the same: Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski is a lazy alcoholic bastard without any ambitions but to drink, screw and bet on horses. Chinaski has as many jobs as the book has chapters - which i ... (continue)

    Factotum is the 2nd book by Bukowski I've read (after Post Office), and so far, they have been very much the same: Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski is a lazy alcoholic bastard without any ambitions but to drink, screw and bet on horses. Chinaski has as many jobs as the book has chapters - which is a lot. Bukowski's style seems as off-hand and nonchalant as the man himself, and that is its brilliance. He writes more directly than any other writer I've read, and is funnier than most without seeming to even try.

    If you have two or three hours to spare and don't mind reading about the life of an unambitious drunkard, this book is highly recommended.

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Post Office: A Novel By Charles Bukowski
Great Expectations: (Penguin Popular Classics) By Charles Dickens
James Joyce: The Citizen and the Artist By Charles Peake
Jane Eyre: (Penguin Classics) By Charlotte Bronte
The Crucible: (Penguin Classics) By Christopher Bigsby, Arthur H. Miller
Fight Club: A Novel By Chuck Palahniuk
The Master By Colm Tóibín
Finished on Jul 5, 2009

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All the Pretty Horses: (Vintage International) By Cormac McCarthy
The Road By Cormac McCarthy
Sons and Lovers: (Wordsworth Classics) By D. H. Lawrence
Ghost World By Daniel Clowes
Finished on Feb 27, 2009

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Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe, Avi
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: (Vintage) By Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity By Dave Eggers
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language By David Crystal
The Broom of the System By David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest: A Novel By David Foster Wallace
The Picturegoers By David Lodge
Black Swan Green: (Sceptre) By David Mitchell
Ghostwritten By David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell
Number9Dream By David Brock, David Mitchell
Finished on Apr 6, 2008

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Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics) By David Raeburn, Denis Feeney, Ovid
Jude the Obscure: (Penguin Classics) By Dennis Taylor, Thomas Hardy
White Noise: (Picador Books) By Don DeLillo
Underworld: A Novel By Don DeLillo

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