2008-10-29 - 12:22 p.m.
Mere moments ago I was mentally giving myself a high five for having trained my amazon account to come up with such good suggestions and related searches for me.
My self-congratulatory mood soured when I realized that it was, in fact, amazon who had trained me to want all this stuff.
(But whatever, I still want them. You can't tell me that the following wouldn't be really good books.)
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-The Noodle Maker: A Novel by Ma Jian
An entreprenuerial son surreally roasts his willing mother in his busy homemade crematoriam... A wealthy professional blood donor argues with his old friend, a blocked writer one book away from his entry into the Dictionary of Great Chinese Writers...
-Perpetual Motion by Graeme Gibson
A Canadian pioneer attempts to build a perpetual motion device using a dinosaur bone that he dug up on his farm...
-Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
A French-trained psychoanalyst returns to China to find his lost love who is imprisoned by a tyrannical local judge with a predilection for virgins...
-The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Oscar is a 300 pound lovesick ghetto nerd who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R. Tolkien...
