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David’s favorite books

The Oresteia by Aeschylus Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, Translator After the Ice by Steven Mithen Dubliners by James Joyce Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie The Unvanquished by William Faulkner Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
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David David said: " This is one of the greatest books ever written, a true classic. I'm just about to finish my fourth reading of it, and know I shall read it again. Like Shakespeare, it contains just about everything. ...more "

 
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David David said: " Read this before, several times. Just re-reading it again, for that clarity of sight, that fearlessness of language. "

 
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