Bookshelf - Some of my favorites

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Neil Stephenson is doing great stuff, check it out. CryptonomiconThe Diamond AgeSnow Crash "Why I am a bad correspondent." Life in an age of continual partial attention.
Sam Delaney has written some of the best SF. Period. Search vintage Delaney courtesy of Bibliofind.com
Pynchon seems a bit obtuse, but he's funny!

Gravity's RainbowMason & DixonV             

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon. A WebPortrait by Alan Ruch.
For Borges, a comprenhensive Collected Fictions. My favorite of the original volumes is Labyrinths  Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges  The Garden of Forking Paths
Joyce. Worth at least taking a good core sample sometime. UlyssesFinnegan's Wake The Brazen Head. Ruch on Joyce.
 Don DeLillo. I don't know ... just something compelling about the way he writes. Sparse and rich at once.  underworld librathe new one - body artist  DeLillo's America
Umberto Eco Foucault's PendulumIn the Name of the Rose
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold100 Years of Solitude
 
John Keegan. Insightful, evocative military history. The Face of BattleA History of WarfareThe First World War
Timothy Ferris' Galaxies is an enormously beautiful book of large format photography of the cosmos. Who is Cosmo? And why are they taking pictures?

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