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Originally Posted by supernothing

1. Cormac McCarthy - The Blood Meridian (finished it this year), it's the only McCarthy book i've read and it's amazing. Total bleak image of the romantic "western" idea, with no likeable characters but one of the best in any book i've read, The Judge.
2. Ryzard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War, amazing reportage from Poland's only international correspondant from the 70s to late 80s, the man was witness to a lot of wars and revolutions.
4. Ryzard kapuscinski - My African Life (i think). Similar stuff but all based in africa and quite repetitive
5. JM G Le Clezio - Terra Amata, amazing, if hard going, novel from the nobel prize winner. Snippets from the life of one boy growing up, but full of existensial-pseudo-mystical-scientific asides. Definately worth is, Le Clezio's language and style is amazing.
6. Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives, not quite finished yet but almost there, definately the best latin american novel i have ever read.

7. John Fante - The Road To Los Angeles, pretty hillarious coming of age novel about a kid thats read too much neitzsche, by the man Bukowski called "my god".

8. William Falconer - As I Lay Dying