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[icarus]

I got my books for school today. My World Literature professor looks to be a twisted sort, reading list:

Heart of Darkness
God of Small Things
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Bone People
... and one other I can't recall.

This is gonna be cheery.

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[puella-deville.livejournal.com]

Except for God of Small Things, which I've not yet read, those are some of my favorite works -- the Hulme is absolutely amazing. It's the kind of thing you give people when they're deeply depressed and there's no use trying to cheer them up. And if that sounds like a bad rec, I mean it as the highest form of compliment (i.e., it's compelling and evocative reading even for the despairing and spiritually dead -- not to be confused, mind you, with the normally superficial).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Definitely reassuring, though I'd feel better if at least one of the books on the list was... comedic? Just to balance out the angst. We'll see soon enough. I always loved the books my librarian friend Mrs Cosgrove picked out for me. ;)

Icarus