October 11, 2012
Tomas Boudreau’s 10 Favorite Books

theinframantics:

Limit 1 per author; listed in alphabetical order.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira
Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2666 by Roberto Bolano
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Rights of Inspection by Jacques Derrida
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
American Tabloid by James Ellroy

(Source: infraread)

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November 19, 2011
"There are infinite things on earth; any one of them may be likened to any other. Likening stars to leaves is no less arbitrary than likening them to fish or birds. However, there is no one who has not felt at some time that destiny is clumsy and powerful, that it is innocent and also inhuman."

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Avveroes’ Search”

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November 14, 2011
"He comprehended that the effort to mold the incoherent and vertiginous matter dreams are made of was the most arduous task a man could undertake, though he might penetrate all the enigmas of the upper and lower orders: much more arduous than weaving a rope of sand or coining the faceless wind."

— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Circular Ruins”

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October 22, 2011
Personal Reading This Semester

The books I’ve completed this semester/winter break, ranked in order by personal preference. I’ll update it as I go along…

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959)
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (1938)
The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1941)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
On Writing by Stephen King (2000)
Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby Jr. (1986)
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller (1941)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski (1989)
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville (1846)
Junky by William S. Burroughs (1953)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (1972)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)
Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)
The Covenant by Irving Layton (1977)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Willow Tree by Hubert Selby Jr. (1998)
Fierce Departures by Dionne Brand (2009)
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975)
The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway (1988)
Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (1996)

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