…Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien - Watchmen by Alan Moore - From Hell by Alan Moore - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore - Dune by Frank Herbert - Immortality by Milan Kundera - first 3 books in the The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - The Dark Half by Stephen King - The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman - Coalescent by Stephen Baxter - 1984 by George Orwell…
A similar point of view is expressed by czech novelist Milan Kundera in his "Immortality" (http://www.librarything.com/work/2601/41486088), analysing the way people build their outwards identity by means of adding - or subtracting - attributes such as the ones you point out.
…chaotic, organic systems (e.g. human interaction systems). Also helped me to find out what direction I should take after my own book (http://www.nationbydesign.com) Fiction: re-read Milan Kundera's Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Still lifetime favourites after all these years.
While I value The Unbearable Lightness (and it's more widely known because of the movie), I think that it's Immortality where Kundera is the deepest, the most inventive, the most subtle. (It's also written in a way that makes it really hard to turn into a movie, and the book explicitly mentions it in passing.)
Moby Dick, Herman Melville VALIS, Philip K Dick Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + also Lila, Robert Pirsig Naked Lunch, William Burroughs Immortality, Milan Kundera Catch-22, Joseph Heller (pair with The Deserters, Charles Glass -- In fact a lot of the stuff in Catch-22 is actually toned down from reality) Mastering the Core Teachings of Buddha,…
米兰·昆德拉的《不朽》。它让我以一种前所未有的方式去思考死亡、爱情和性观念
Immortality by Milan Kundera It made me think about mortality, love and sexuality in ways I'd never thought of before
…J·R·R·托尔金的《精灵宝钻》- 阿兰·摩尔的《守望者》- 阿兰·摩尔的《来自地狱》- 阿兰·摩尔的《V字仇杀队》- 阿兰·摩尔的《非凡绅士联盟》系列 - 弗兰克·赫伯特的《沙丘》- 米兰·昆德拉的《不朽》- 斯蒂芬·金《黑暗塔》系列的前三部 - 斯蒂芬·金的《黑暗的另一半》- 尼尔·盖曼的《睡魔》系列 - 斯蒂芬·巴克斯特的《凝聚》- 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》…
…Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien - Watchmen by Alan Moore - From Hell by Alan Moore - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore - Dune by Frank Herbert - Immortality by Milan Kundera - first 3 books in the The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - The Dark Half by Stephen King - The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman - Coalescent by Stephen Baxter - 1984 by George Orwell…
捷克作家米兰·昆德拉在他的《不朽》（http://www.librarything.com/work/2601/41486088）中也表达了类似的观点，书中分析了人们如何通过添加——或者删减——像你提到的那些属性，来构建自己向外展示的身份认同。
A similar point of view is expressed by czech novelist Milan Kundera in his "Immortality" (http://www.librarything.com/work/2601/41486088), analysing the way people build their outwards identity by means of adding - or subtracting - attributes such as the ones you point out.
…混沌、有机系统（比如人类交互系统）。同时也帮我指明了写完自己的书（http://www.nationbydesign.com）之后该走的方向。虚构类：重读了米兰·昆德拉的《不朽》和《笑忘书》。这么多年过去了，依然是一生挚爱。
…chaotic, organic systems (e.g. human interaction systems). Also helped me to find out what direction I should take after my own book (http://www.nationbydesign.com) Fiction: re-read Milan Kundera's Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Still lifetime favourites after all these years.
虽然我也很推崇《不能承受的生命之轻》（而且因为它拍了电影所以知名度更高），但我认为昆德拉在《不朽》里表现得最深邃、最富有独创性、也最精妙。（而且它的写法让它极难被改编成电影，书中甚至顺带明确提到了这一点。）
While I value The Unbearable Lightness (and it's more widely known because of the movie), I think that it's Immortality where Kundera is the deepest, the most inventive, the most subtle. (It's also written in a way that makes it really hard to turn into a movie, and the book explicitly mentions it in passing.)
《白鲸》，赫尔曼·梅尔维尔；《幻圣》（VALIS），菲利普·K·迪克；《禅与摩托车维修艺术》外加续作《莱拉》，罗伯特·波西格；《裸体午餐》，威廉·巴勒斯；《不朽》，米兰·昆德拉；《第二十二条军规》，约瑟夫·海勒（可以配合查尔斯·格拉斯的《逃兵》一起看——其实《第二十二条军规》里的很多情节比现实还要收敛）；《佛陀核心教义的修证》…
Moby Dick, Herman Melville VALIS, Philip K Dick Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + also Lila, Robert Pirsig Naked Lunch, William Burroughs Immortality, Milan Kundera Catch-22, Joseph Heller (pair with The Deserters, Charles Glass -- In fact a lot of the stuff in Catch-22 is actually toned down from reality) Mastering the Core Teachings of Buddha,…