OK, I guess I'll finally do this one

[mmcirvin]

The ones I think I've read are in bold:

• Jane Austen, Patience and Petulance
• Jane Austen, Rockingham Slope
• Samuel Beckett, Puntipoop
• Jorge Luis Borges, Elaborations
• John Brunner, The Frog in the Pan
• James Fenimore Cooper, The Flint-Striker
• Robertson Davies, Gryphon's Rest
• Philip K. Dick, The Exploded Memory of William Tardigrade*
• Charles Dickens, Timothy Swimflicker
• Umberto Eco, The Inverted Sigil
• T. S. Eliot, The Limbless Trees
• Harlan Ellison, "Listen Closely," Whispered the Nightshade at the Center of the Eye at the Center of the World
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, To Love and Yearn
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Agitator
• William Faulkner, Evening of Cain
• Ernest Hemingway, Years Past Kenya
• Henrik Ibsen, Sighs
• Alfred Jarry, Ubu Besmirched
• James Joyce, Liffey Cantos
• Stanislaw Lem, Empty Set: Perfect Titles for Missing Volumes
• Herman Melville, Mylmott, or, the Rope-Twister
• A. A. Milne, In Our High Chair
• Molière, The Ignorant Lawyer
• George Orwell, Learning in Majorca
• Thomas Pynchon, Contraction
• Salman Rushdie, Dreams of the Muezzin
• William Shakespeare, Glagoliticus
• William Shakespeare, The Good Sons of Genoa; Or, Your Heart's Desire
• Mark Twain, Rutabaga Phillips
• Mark Twain, Satan's Address-Book
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., I'm Over Here, Frankie Marigold

Whew! Seems I'm pretty well-read after all. What a relief!

*Filmed as Deathpunch

Comments

[zmook.livejournal.com]

This is marvelous.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

You haven't read "Rutabaga Phillips"? You poor, ignorant fool.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I'm so sad about this universe not actually having a PKD book with 'Tardigrade' in its title.
Sigh.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Don't bother with Glagoliticus. It's easily Shakespeare's most overrated play, more tedious even than Elizabeth II. It's way too long, and in many places he seems to be pandering to lowbrow tastes at the expense of artistic merit; witness the "comic" vomiting scene (Act V scene xvii), for instance. Worst of all is Numonia's extremely ill-advised nude scene (Act VII scene xii). It's not all bad, of course; Bituminus's soliloquy in Act I scene xli is inspired, and is the source of the popular expression "like a bavian on a torpid mule". Read that, certainly, but skip the rest, is what I say.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Is that the Milne/PKD crossover book, "The Man in the High Chair"?

If you meant to cause brain implosion...

[avocado123.livejournal.com]

then congratulations. You succeeded.

What in the hell is that list?