Books?

[GuyByThePond]

#40 + Books I’d bring in a desert island
US :

• Cormac Mc Carthy : The road  => a very big kick in your face
  
• James Ellroy: The L.A. quartet, Underworld USA trilogy, Killer on the road => best crime fiction
  
• Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama => capturing the 80’s and 90’s zeitgeist
  
• Robert Jordan: The wheel of time saga => best fantasy
  
• Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance => blow your mind in tiny bits
  
• Philip K Dick: A scanner darkly, Ubik => holy shit !
  
• Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates, On Stranger Tides => minor books, great fun
  
• Dan Simmons: Hyperion, Illium => second best Sci Fi
  
• Frank Miller: Dark Knight, Daredevil renaissance, 300, Sin City (graphic novels) => if Elroy had been a comic book author
  

UK:

• Terry Pratchett: discworld series, Good omens (with Neil Gaiman) => LMAO !
  
• Neil Gaiman: Good omens (with Terry Pratchett), American Gods, Neverwhere, Sandman (graphic novel) => modern mythology
  
• Iain M Banks: culture series => best Sci Fi
  
• Iain Banks: The bridge => best book of one of the best UK writers
  
• JRR Tolkien: Bilbo the hobbit, Lord of the rings => a fantasy classic
  
• JK Rowling: Harry Potter Saga => a fantasy classic that does not know it’s fantasy
  
• Alan Moore: V for Vendetta, Watchmen (graphic novels) => making comic books an art form
  
• Grant Morrison: Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles (graphic novels) => Tarantino gone comics
  

France:

• Maurice G. Dantec: La sirène rouge, Les racines du mal, Babylon babies => the twilight of a millenia, the dawn of another… and another very big kick in your face
  
• Michel Houellebecq: extension du domaine de la lutte, les particules élémentaires => capturing the zeitgeist of the 00’s
  
• Antoine Buéno : le soupir de l’immortel => capturing the zeitgeist of the future
  
• Guillaume Dustan : Nicolas Pages => autofiction I liked
  
• Frédéric Beigbeder : L’amour dure 3 ans => a minor book with a major influence on me
  
• Joseph Kessel : une balle perdue => my first contact with “serious” literature
  
• Marcel Proust: à la recherche du temps perdu => so much style
  
• Albert Cohen : Belle du seigneur => best romance I ever read
  
• Albert Camus: L’étranger => ever felt alien ?
  
• Caryl Ferey: all his works => a fucking talented writer
  
• Daniel Pennac: La saga Malaussène => MDR ! (french for LMAO)
  
• Jean d’Ormesson : la douane de mer => I needed a writer from the french academy
  
• Alain Ayroles : de cape et de crocs (comic books) => Molière and Alexandre Dumas gone comics !
  

Other:

• Haruki Murakami (Japan): A Wild Sheep Chase => this guy will be nobel prize of literature
  
• Eiji Yoshikawa (Japan): Musashi => capturing what bushido is about
  
• Yukito Kishiro (Japan): Gunnm => Cyberpunk gone manga
  
• Kazuo Koike (Japan) : Lone Wolf and Cub => Bushido gone manga
  
• S.P. Somtow (Thailand) : Dragon’s fin soup and other novels => sanuk !
  
• Jose Saramago (Portugal): Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, Ensaio sobre a Lucidez => this guy is nobel prize of literature
  
• Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) : all his works ! => more than 50 writers in one guy
  
• Luis Sepulveda (Chile): Un viejo que leía novelas de amor => an easy and fun way to get in the world of south american literature
  
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia): El amor en los tiempos del cólera => another nobel prize of literature
  
• Rodrigo Fresan (Argentina): Mantra => Mexican pop culture gone big literature