Come, come now!

Yes, like CWC, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath are favorites of mine (also being a girl and all).

Thomas Pyncheon is beyond me. I managed to get through Joyce's The Dubliners and would love to read Ulysses -- with a tutor! Or a key: was it Joseph Campbell who wrote one?

Two books that I know are favorites among many here are Cryptonomicon (I got halfway through that), and Gödel, Escher, Bach (couldn't get beyond the intro to the new edition).

Maybe I just need more mental discipline.