Reading requirements aside, what books actually influenced you.

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<p>Oh yeah I also liked 1984 and Lord of the Flies. Pride and Prejudice blows though.</p>

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<p>Drown by Junot Diaz, and the collected oeuvre of Donald Barthelme. Anything by Daniel Clowes. </p>

<p>Brother, I'm Dying.
Jesus' Son (Johnson).
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut).
The Bell Jar (Plath).
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence).
The Virgin Suicides (Eugenides). Oddly enough, I didn't care for Middlesex.</p>