Hmm. *
1. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
2. Don Quixote - Cervantes
3. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
* this list will change next time i walk through my book room
Sounds like someone is "loving, pure and chaste from afar."
Good call with the Hesse, wavelength.
Zorba The Greek
Also, anything by Papa Hemmingway.
Tapeworm's dusty volume pic of the day: Fielding's Tom Jones
Funniest writer I've ever read is PG Wodehouse. His Jeeves and Wooster stories come on like a juggernaut of hilarity. First you smirk, then chuckle, then laugh, then roar. Pretty soon you're beet red and crying with laughter and can't breath, until concern for health obliges you to set it down.