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1. The protagonist of this novel is a brilliant painter who chooses to forge Flemish masterpieces rather than produce original works, a scathing satire of hypocrisy and pretension.
2. Main character of this novel is named Hero Protagonist.
3. This novel is set during the last months of WWII and involves (among other things) LT. Tyrone Slothrop's quest for the Rocket 00000; it is generally considered the masterpiece of a rather anonymous-by-choice writer and drew comparisons to Ulysses and Moby Dick when published. Complete the title: "Gravity's _____".
4. This book dealt with (at least I think) the horrific pointlessness and needless destruction of human life during war, using the American firebombing of Dresden in WWII as an example.
5. A novel set in the near-future where New England is a giant landfill that's been ceded to Canada, the years are named after consumer products (e.g. The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment), and a rare underground film causes its viewers to 'expire in a state of catatonic bliss'.
6. This novel begins (aside from the introduction) with a battle royale among black children in a boxing ring as drunken white men both cuss them and cheer them on.
7. The movie "Blade Runner" (a title taken from William Burroughs, incidentally), was based on what novel by Philip K. Dick?
8. The unworthy sequel to Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" was interesting, regardless.
9. A famous novel of the 1950s that followed the highway adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty
10. A professor of Hitler studies at a small liberal arts college flees a toxic outbreak with his family, shoots his wife's lover, and then takes him to the hospital.
11. The first volume of the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, having to do with teenage cowboys in Mexico during the 1950s
12. Plot of this novel involves the search of Oedipa Maas for the secret postal system, Trystero, in 1960s California.
13. The central figure of this novel, which is all dialogue, is an 11 year-old boy who builds a financial empire from a phone booth near his school.
14. This novel is set in New Orleans and follows the various French Quarter occupations and exploits of one Ignatius J. Reilly, obese admirer of the Roman philosopher Boethius.
15. This novel begins with the question, 'Who is John Galt?'
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