Every day I try to hold off on any personal (Reality?:) postings until after 4:52 p.m. when the sweeping hands of MetaxuCafe harvest member headlines. I also try to post something literary just prior to that time in the hopes that I present my better side.
There’s a great post that Bud Parr put up at Metaxu that unfortunately may end up costing me some money over at Amazon.com: Top Ten Fiction Works gives Bud’s favorites (with a different criteria than most top ten lists) and member’s comments. Here’s what I put down:
1. Blood Meridian
2. 100 Years of Solitude
3. The Borzoi Poe
4. Franny and Zoey
5. Watership Down
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Cannery Row
8. Suttree
9. The Consolation of Philosophy
10. Wuthering Heights
11. Candide…oh, that’s eleven.
Obviously, Consolation is not fiction, but I snuck it in there because of its everlasting effect on me. There were a few more I would have squeezed in:
Watchmen
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Portable Parker
Rebecca
And really, so many more. All for different reasons except they hold this in common: they will never really leave me alone.
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