The "One Book" Meme

Ken Rudman

Mark at The Elegant Variation may hate blog memes, but I love 'em. I think they make me look smart. Feel free to do this one, too.

One book that changed your life - The Magic Mountain -- complex, poignant, austere. There is no trickery in this book, it's just flat-out magnificence from start to end. One of the only novels I've ever read where the passage of time is more real inside the narrative than outside of it.

One book that you

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The Sound of the Book

Featured Artist: Blue Ash
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