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Thanks -- I'll be adding all these. Can't believe I forgot the Stephenson examples. The Calvino book looks great. And.. the Disreputable Dog. I'll always be he

• hprotagonist 8y ago
  https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino "I have quoted this line in full because it is the last example on record of a bad sentence by Italo Calvino." If you haven't yet, check out the audiobooks of the Abhorsen books. Tim Curry makes an excellent snarky cat with mysterious powers...
  • whatrocks 8y ago
    "instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the (“neo-realistic”) novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic." Chills.
• hprotagonist 8y ago
  oh, hell. Sandman. Dream of the endless has a library full of all the books their author's didnt' write. Like Marlowe's "The Merrie Comedy of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus", or Wodehouses' "Psmith and Jeeves". How'd i forget that one... http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/12/15/the-library-of-dream/ http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/12/15/the-library-of-drea...