I am a lifetime avid reader but there are very few books I come back to and re-read. I guess the books which impact you the most aren't the ones you'd expect. Here are some that come to mind: *Novels in Three Lines* - Felix Feneon; like clever sarcastic haiku *Riddley Walker* - Russell Hoban; It's written in an imagined language making it completely and utterly immersive *Waiting for Nothing* - Tom Kromer; Great depression era destitution, and travel *Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon* - William Saroyan; In an era of great writers, Saroyan remains wildly under appreciated. *Really the Blues* - Mezz Mezzrow; Written in 1920s jive slang, it's emblematic of an era *The KLF* - John Higgs; The book is subtitled "Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds" All those things are true and Higgs brilliantly tells the tale.
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