/lit/ - Literature

>Contrary to his everyman persona, Norm Macdonald was a great lover of literature. Enamored with Russian literature as a teen he cited Eugene Onegin (in the Falen translation, as opposed the Nabokov's which he openly mocked) as his favorite work. Another Pushkin work, The Queen of Spades, was also a favorite along with Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In English literature he noted du Maurier, Graham Green, and John le Carré as his preferred 20th century authors, recommending the latter's early mystery novels, especially A Murder of Quality. Additionally, the sea stories of Patrick O'Brian were a beloved pastime while touring. Austen, Emily Brontë's verse, and the Pickwick Papers were among his older British favorites. When it came to Americans Macdonald enjoyed Updike, Twain, Highsmith, L'Amour, Robert E. Howard, and Heinlein mentioning also, to one interviewer, an obsession with the big game hunting narratives of Peter H. Capstick.