Instant canon gonna get you

[giantsloth]

Chris Nakashima-Brown posted a list of books that changed his life and tagged me to do the same. I tried to stick mostly with books I read prior to meeting Kessel and falling into the deep end of the sf pool. (Thus there are no women writers in this list, and there are problematic individuals such as Hunter Thompson, which sucks but so it goes.) So, submitted without much comment:

1. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones.
2. Donald Barthelme, City Life.
3. Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur.
4. A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.
5. Franz Kafka, The Penal Colony.
6. Damon Knight, editor, the Orbit anthologies.
7. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
8. Frank Miller and Bill Sienciewicz, Elektra: Assassin.
9. Barney Rosset, editor, The Evergreen Review Reader.

Comments

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

I'll see your Milne and raise you a Beatrix Potter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

You too with Elektra: Assassin?

Nice!

[(Anonymous)]

I was too chicken to dive into the comics vault, fearing it would end up with something involving Matter-Eater Lad. And yes, I should have included Fear and Loathing, too.

C-Nak