crack books
at some point during a recent road trip from boston to pittsburgh, a friend and i started to discuss a catcher in the rye—fifteen minutes into the conversation we both realised that neither of us had read the book.
we then began to come clean on books that had “fallen through the cracks” for us—books that everyone else seems to have read that are talked about so often that we can believably discuss them without looking like unlettered booooobs (extra o’s added for emphasis).
here are my crack books (don’t judge me):
- a catcher in the rye
- watership down
- a tale of two cities
- heart of darkness
- 1984
what are yours? (i will be judging you)
UPDATE: this list.
Mine are:
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Ulyesses, James Joyce (somehow I feel as if this should be its own list)
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon (or V, come to that)
- Anything, anything at all by D. H. Lawrence.
There are other books I haven’t read, but these are the ones I feel most guilty about, because more likely than not I will never read them.
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