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5 MEMORABLE BOOKS READ THIS YEAR 2011

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#5. Trout fishing in America – R. Brautigan – 1967

Brautigan loosely and in a disjointed narrative (more often poetry than prose) touches on the themes of the times (bearing the marks of your photo-typical 60s S FRAN hipitty) environmental and social decay and pollutants… but, you know, all pretty like, with language and a-typical metaphor

And then I read Brautigans “The Abortion”… it is its title, and very disappointing

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#4. Jesus son – D. Johnson – 1992

After years of coveting the film I finally cracked this book of shorts

Junky stories or scenes described from above and slightly to the left of the self.

Deeply melancholy

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#3. The Screwtape letters – C. S. Lewis – 1942

Q: Is it a sin for a catholic to study theology?

A: Better to not risk it

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#2. Valis – P. K. Dick – 1981

Not since Knut Hamsuns Pan has a book so effectively changed my work a day perspective… forget that, sucking on these pages I found myself re-evaluating foundations.

Seeing myself at this table with Fat’s motley crew saying “Why do some cats live and why do some cats die?” and Fat says “Because the universe is irrational” and I say “Is that why I feel so empty?” and he says “The universe is contracting into a unitary entity which is completing itself. Decay and disorder are seen by us in reverse as increasing” and I reply “Keep gabbing kook help me understand”

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#1. Catastrophe

It’s a foto feast of funny felines. WHAT? WHAT?