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<blockquote data-quote="EddieB" data-source="post: 1125260" data-attributes="member: 16841"><p>Veteran/grandmaster here - by age, not posts - so some leeway allowed, the mind wanders:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Youth (up to 34 as per legislation): Fiction: Anthony Powell - 12 volume "A Dance to the Music of Time"; Herman Hesse - "Knulp". Non-Fiction: Walt Unsworth - "Everest"; Deneys Reitz - "Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Middle Age: Fiction: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "Love in the Time of Cholera"; Italo Calvino - "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"; Non-Fiction: anything Ryszard Kapušciñski.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And Thereafter: Fiction: Cervantes - "Don Quixote"; Proust - "Remembrance of Things Past"; Non-Fiction: Sean Carroll - "From Eternity to Here"; Sylvain Tesson - "The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet" (check out the Nick Cave/Warren Ellis soundtrack), and also Tesson - "Consolations of the Forest".</li> </ul><p>Arbitrary demarcation, of course, things flow back and forth - leading more and more to poetry (Breytenbach, Thomas, Bukowski, etc.).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EddieB, post: 1125260, member: 16841"] Veteran/grandmaster here - by age, not posts - so some leeway allowed, the mind wanders: [LIST] [*]Youth (up to 34 as per legislation): Fiction: Anthony Powell - 12 volume "A Dance to the Music of Time"; Herman Hesse - "Knulp". Non-Fiction: Walt Unsworth - "Everest"; Deneys Reitz - "Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War". [*]Middle Age: Fiction: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "Love in the Time of Cholera"; Italo Calvino - "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"; Non-Fiction: anything Ryszard Kapušciñski. [*]And Thereafter: Fiction: Cervantes - "Don Quixote"; Proust - "Remembrance of Things Past"; Non-Fiction: Sean Carroll - "From Eternity to Here"; Sylvain Tesson - "The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet" (check out the Nick Cave/Warren Ellis soundtrack), and also Tesson - "Consolations of the Forest". [/LIST] Arbitrary demarcation, of course, things flow back and forth - leading more and more to poetry (Breytenbach, Thomas, Bukowski, etc.). [/QUOTE]
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