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A Confederate General from Big Sur:  ("Rebel Inc." Classics S.)
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Lee Mellon believes he is the descendent of the only Confederate General to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker after truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo and the state of the Union. This novel is set in 1957, and was the late Richard Brautigan's first to be published.

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A Confederate General from Big Sur:  ("Rebel Inc." Classics S.)

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

A Confederate General from Big Sur: ("Rebel Inc." Classics S.)
Richard Brautigan

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

This fantastic short novel about two vagrant stoner beatniks is possibly Brautigan's finest work. Straddling the beat and hippy eras, Brautigan was in neither camp and his writing exceeds both. Full of nostalgia, humour and unforgettably endearing characters and situations, this novel is reminiscent of lazy, hazy school holiday adventures of youth tinged with an undercurrent of melancholy. Vastly ...

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Filled with sex and violence - in and out of time and space - the three books in this trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle the cover-ups of our time - from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill - and suggest a mind-blowing truth.

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The Illuminatus!: Trilogy

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

The Illuminatus!: Trilogy
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

This classic of 1970's counter-cultural science fantasy is an irreverent romp through conspiracy and counter-conspiracy, secret agents, sinister organisations, demons, 50ft goddesses, explicit eroticism, deviant sexual rituals and the iconography of the dollar bill. A recommendation is to use a dollar bill as a bookmark, because you will want to study one while reading this hugely entertaining ...

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Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel
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A satire by the author of The Master and Margarita on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre.

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Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel
Mikhail Bulgakov

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Black Snow is Bulgakov's undisguised and savage satirical indictment of Moscow's theatrical and artistic communities. Mercilessly lampooning the great Stanislavski and other icons of Russian theatre, Bulgakov exposes the frivolous and sycophantic nature of the artistic elite with rapier wit, verve and panache.

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Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation.

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The Crying of Lot 49

14:04, 04 Apr 2008

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

5 out of 5 (0 agreements, disagreements)

Part espionage/crime thriller, part historical drama, part jacobean revenge tragedy, this deceptively slim novel is Pynchon at his most mischevious. Reading the dense textual content can sometimes feel as though you are wading through literary treacle as Pynchon intentionally unravels even the suggestion of a linear plot or narrative. This serves to make the reader dig for meaning and thus become ...

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