Party Going by Marcel Proust

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• 3 August 2009 at 12:58pm
  Jenny Diski says:
  My Family and Other Animals by William Jennings Bryan
  On The Road by Xavier de Maistre
  A Voyage Round My Room by Jack Kerouac
  White Teeth by Martin Amis
  The Colour Purple by John Milton
  The Man Without Qualities co-authored by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, translated into Italian by Berlusconi
  Journal of the Plague Year by Hugh Pennington
  
  Can we have movies?
  
  Speed by Robert Bresson
  Speed 2 by Tarkovsky

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• 3 August 2009 at 5:24pm
  ikp says:
  The Nice and the Good by Marquis de Sade
  The Waves by Vidal Sassoon
  Dubliners by Hugh MacDiarmid
  I Am a Camera by Jackson Pollock
  Ash-Wednesday by Tuesday Weld
  The Maximus Poems by Basho
  Under the Volcano by Mary Beard
  Living by Edgar Allan Poe

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• 3 August 2009 at 9:22pm
  Martin says:
  Diary of a Nobody by Salman Rushdie

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• 3 August 2009 at 9:43pm
  Martin says:
  One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by George Bush
  Green Eggs and Ham by Heston Blumenthal
  Where the Wild Things Are by Beatrix Potter
  Naked Lunch by Barbara Pym
  The Rules by Lord Byron
  120 Days of Sodom by John Major

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• 3 August 2009 at 9:54pm
  Martin says:
  The Rough Guide to Cape Town by Jenny Diski

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• 3 August 2009 at 9:58pm
  Phil Edwards says:
  Loving by Jackie Collins
  Women in Love by Sarah Waters
  Great Expectations by Samuel Beckett
  The Selfish Gene by Betsy Blair

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• 4 August 2009 at 2:13am
  pat.rosier says:
  Everybody's Autobiography by Montaigne
  Don Quixote by Dick Francis
  Apology for the Woman Writing by A S Byatt

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• 4 August 2009 at 7:41am
  Martin says:
  Long Walk to Freedom by Jeffrey Archer
  The Jungle Book by David Attenborough
  I Write What I Like by Peter Hitchens
  Tales of the City by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Fat Chance by Stephen Fry
  Portrait of a Lady by Jade Goody

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• 4 August 2009 at 11:52am
  JWA says:
  Little Women - Henry Miller
  The Good Soldier - Andy McNab
  Goodbye Mr Chips - Joseph Conrad

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• 4 August 2009 at 12:46pm
  Jim Holt says:
  Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
  Say that health and wealth have missed me,
  Say I'm growing old but add--
  Jenny Diski.

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• 4 August 2009 at 4:57pm
  mundodeclaudia says:
  Peter Pan by Vladimir Nabokov
  Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Italo Calvino
  2666 by Dan Brown
  The Taming of the Shrew by Henry James
  Sex for Dummies by Benedict XVI
  The Discovery of France bt Julian Barnes

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• 5 August 2009 at 7:53am
  martincj says:
  The Wind in the Willows by Ian Rankin

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• 6 August 2009 at 6:43am
  Martin says:
  101 Uses for a Dead Cat by Christopher Smart

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• 6 August 2009 at 11:40am
  Moonrakerbooks says:
  King Solomon's Mines by Frantz Fanon

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• 6 August 2009 at 11:42am
  Moonrakerbooks says:
  Goodbye to All That by Marcel Proust

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• 6 August 2009 at 10:41pm
  Martin says:
  The 39 Steps by Tim Robbins and Deepak Chopra

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• 6 August 2009 at 10:42pm
  Martin says:
  Sorry, that should be Anthony Robbins

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• 7 August 2009 at 2:33pm
  Splinno says:
  I'm confused and stupid. I really can't work out whether Proust might, or could never, have written Party Going. Likewise Flaubert's Catch-22.
  
  I'd like to read All The Pretty Horses by Katie Price.

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• 8 August 2009 at 7:52pm
  Jim Holt says:
  I think the idea is that Proust's extensive experience as a party-goer/social-climber/fop-about-Paris might have been deployed in the writing of a more vulgar and racy (and entertaining?) novel than the one he actually produced.
  (Yes, I know--an explained joke is a failed joke.)

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• 9 August 2009 at 2:20pm
  Martin says:
  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen
  Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Mary Whitehouse
  The Tobacco Shop by Alberto Caeiro (if you allow poems)

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