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Here's a reading list...

This one has been making its rounds lately. The first version was, name five books that define you. Well, not define, exactly, but you know what I mean. Soon people expanded this by listing five fiction and five nonfiction. So I will begin with five fictions, with more other things later.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
George Santayana, The Last Puritan
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent

These are the ones that come first to mind; let me post this before I have second thoughts.

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I love Mann! I held a German copy of The Magic Mountain in my hot little hand when we were at the Neue Museum this weekend. I still have Kafka to read im Deutsch first.