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Thanks -- I'll be adding all these. Can't believe I forgot the Stephenson examples. The Calvino book looks great.

And.. the Disreputable Dog. I'll always be her friend, too.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino

"I have quoted this line in full because it is the last example on record of a bad sentence by Italo Calvino."

If you haven't yet, check out the audiobooks of the Abhorsen books. Tim Curry makes an excellent snarky cat with mysterious powers...

"instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the (“neo-realistic”) novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic."

Chills.

oh, hell. Sandman. Dream of the endless has a library full of all the books their author's didnt' write. Like Marlowe's "The Merrie Comedy of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus", or Wodehouses' "Psmith and Jeeves".

How'd i forget that one...

http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/12/15/the-library-of-drea...

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