[UA] Inspirational books (was RE: Great and secret show)

[Mark Fender]

>Let me DISrecommend Donna Tartt's _The Secret History_; the only really 
interesting bit is the quote about Dionysus Ken lifted for a Suppressed 
Transmission.

Well, let me rerecommend it, then. It's got tons of UA fiddly bits in it: 
psychological breakdown, normalcy slightly out of wack, people taking 
religious texts way out of context and doing stuff horribly wrong, etc. 
Plus, it's a good read.

>About to start Danielewski's _House of Leaves_, mainly on the strength of 
listmembers' recommendations.  The typographical tricks look like they may 
get old fast, though.

Actually, that's the most interesting part. The boring stuff is the long 
chapters on mathematics, architecture, the meaning of the word, 
'labyrinth,' etc.


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