Great books you read in 2009?
RevRal: A bunch of books by Kahlil Gibran. Read The Prophet twice.One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezLove In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Problem Of Pain by C S LewisDisgrace by J M CoetzeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekOn Writing by Stephen KingAtonement by Ian McEwanDictionary Of The Khazars by Milorad PavicCandide by VoltaireThe Labyrinth Of Solitude | Life And Thought In Mexico by Ocavio PazI finished that last one today. Read this:All men, at some moment in their lives, feel themselves to be alone. And they are. To live is to be separated from what we were in order to approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature -- if that word can be used in reference to man, who has "invented" himself by saying "No" to nature -- consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.I recommend this old book.