Where to start with this man?
Also, is it true that The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is his magnum opus?
Where to start with this man?
Isaiah Martin
Other urls found in this thread:
Jonathan Jackson
you should start by exploring your ass
if you didn't like it then he's not for you
Jacob Robinson
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door, the temple's two blocks down.
Thomas Diaz
Patriotism
or
Death in Midsummer
Easton Jones
This
Starting with an author's magnum opus is fucking retarded because you will only be able to appreciate their idiosyncrasies to a limited extent.
Start with Confessions of a Mask and if all the gorey homoshit in there doesn't repel you, go further.
Joshua James
Fack you.
Jose Jones
Reading multiple works by an author provides additional elements of interest to a work of literature but these additions are not additive in terms of quality. Reading Typee and Omoo before reading Moby Dick provides new elements for analysis. One can see the development of a style, one can use the others as points of evidence towards theories presented in Moby Dick, one could use the additional texts to attempt to form an image of Meville etc. However without any of these things Moby Dick is still just as good. A magnum opus is good in and of itself without relation to an authors other work.
You can either read a great work by an author first, learn it isn't for you and move on. You are suggesting that people read books known to be of lesser quality before moving onto the magnum opus before being able to decide whether or not this author is for them. If you read their masterpiece and decide you greatly enjoyed then one can read the others. The only thing your approach achieves is a life in which you spend a lot less time reading books that are fruitful for you and much more time reading sub-par books.
Nathaniel Barnes
i kek'd
Andrew Robinson
Start with his feet.
Lincoln Peterson
Start with the sailor who fell from grace with the sea. Golden Pavillion is my favourite novel ever