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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“he manages to tell these, to write a book like Slaughterhouse-Five about his World War II experience, but do it with the conceit that his main character has come unstuck in time and that he's bouncing around without any control…”
Why: He admires how Vonnegut uses complex, cross-genre structures while maintaining a simple, important morality.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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“And, you know, White Noise was sort of the first novel that came out like 84 that was talking about consumerism and pop culture. And, you know, there's a moment in that book in which, you know, the father goes in, he turns off the lights and the young girl is talking in her sleep.”
Why: It expanded his concept of what a book could be by incorporating meta-themes and pop culture.
White Noise by Don DeLillo
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Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“And, you know, my first novel, A Conspiracy of Tall Men. Such a good premise. Yeah. And I had studied, you know, sort of political science and sort of cycle of paranoia in American politics.”
A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley
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Named without an opinion attached.
“one of the first writing assignments that I remember in high school was we were reading Catch-22, the Joseph Heller book, which is, you know, he invented that phrase, Catch-22, about, you know, the irony of if you're a World War II pilot…”
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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