Welcome to my perfumed garden

Oh thank the lord and all that's holy, someone else who didn't like Dune and hasn't read The Da Vinci Code. I was starting to feel quite alienated from the human race for a while there. Mind you, I couldn't get into On The Road and found it to be terribly self-indulgent and boring. Except for the bit when they're motoring into New York City with their heads wrapped in scarves, and he's ruminating on how they could be Arabs coming in to perform evil acts or somesuch. I read this not all that long after 9/11 and I remember that it stopped me cold.
Apart from that - there are 40 books on the list that I have read, and quite a number that I still intend to try, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's contributions.