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Libra is great.
Bely than Pynchon than Coover.

Let's go
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I'm 250-something pages into Moby Dick but it's quite a struggle.

All the Light We Cannot See would be the perfect book to read between stints on Moby Dick. It's really light and good for what it is.

In what manner are you struggling with Moby Dick

It's just so dry at parts that it takes me forever to get through the page, or I find myself daydreaming.

I usually manage to finish 100-150 pages a day, but MD is a special case. Sometimes I put it down after 20.

I think i remember there being maybe 24 dry chapters total

But just remember that 1. It's a book about everything 2. Ishmael's rambles are the perfect counterpoint to Ahab's determination

You better not have lied to me. I followed your advice and am about to be stuck on an airplane reading it.

It's heavy but I don't remember it being dry at all, MB's like the definitive american dark romance - embrace the indulgent language and detail - does your version have explanatory notes? I feel you need notes to fully appreciate the romance

Speer!

Petersburg is one of my favorite novels. I read that same edition

Just get past the first chapter and you'll begin to enjoy it. You can even read the first chapter after you've read the rest of the book if you're having trouble getting through it. He's got some flowery prose which takes some getting used to but that's one hell of a book.

Malcolm Lowry
Late of the Bowery
His prose was flowery
and often glowery
He lived, nightly, and drank daily,
And died playing the ukulele.

This, seriously. My college library did a spring cleaning a few months back and left a lot of classics up for grabs. Since none of my student body is literate, excluding a few exceptions, I had free range for pickings. I probably collected $200 worth in used books including Durant's eleven volume set titled the Story of Civilization, a collection of James Joyce, Miller, Steinbeck, Tolstoy (Including War and Peace), Faust, Don Quixote, The Illiad and some histories of Rome, etc. I basically collected a small library.

>Under the Volcano

I acquired that from the dump as well; Will start it now.

JG Ballard - Crash
Marquis de Sade - Justine
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Goethe - Sorrows of Young Werther
Ursula k Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Arden's were actually the best editions of Shakespeare's works I've read. Though more the newer ones than the older ones.

Moby Dick
Don Quxote
The Beetle Leg
The Once and Future King
The Count of Monte Cristo

user...just....user... What are you doing? You should have just stopped at the initial recommendation. The first chapter was amazing. This was a good choice.

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Top-tier backlog, user Check out Darconville's Cat and Double or Nothing.

It's actually a poem he wrote lol. Glad you like the book.

Not talking about the poem. I'm talking about the advice to power through (or skip!) the first chapter.

Gravity's Rainbow
The art of war
The art of war (different translation)
At the Mountains of Madness
Wuzi
Gravity's Rainbow

Looks like you should read How to Read and Why and then apologize to Pappy Bloom for posting that shit version.

Chekhov

I love how the original artist of 3C literally dgaf about having his square be such a hot point of contention

3rd party chiming in here

art

shit

I only had the shit one for some reason

Oh okay. I've just had friends put the book down because they couldn't focus through it. But I mean it clearly makes more sense to read it first lol.

A hero of our time - lermontov
The Guns of August - Tuchman
Manon Lescaut - Prevost

Tolstoï - Death of Ivan Ilyich
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rabelais - Gargantua

Jane Austen, Ovid and Virgil asap

Moby-Dick

>Tolstoï - Death of Ivan Ilyich

Haven't read gargantua though

I loved Manon Lescaut

Gargantua and Pantagruel is amazing. Reading it rn and being blown away

>A hero of our time - lermontov
Read this, because that's the classical fiction I'm reading after Siddhartha.

>Tolstoï

Lol

forgot it was Tolstoy in english soz

Ok, meet here on Monday to discuss?

Thanks for the recs user

No p, family.

James Joyce - Dubliners
Thomas Pynchon - V
Aldous Huxley - Island
Vladmir Nabokov - Pale Fire
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Don Delillo - Underworld

Preferably something nice to read outside on a sunny day or inside shortly before bed

Mason & Dixon

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

Is McElroy pronounced "Mic-El-Roy" or Mackel-Roy"?

Ficciones , pale fire and mason and Dixon are three of my all time favourites

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Listen to music

Under the Volcano is great.

Condition of books: Grubby.

can someone recc me a book that will help me get over the loss of a loved one?

Crime and Punishment
The Plague
Being and Time
The Republic
Metaphysics (Aristotle)

Mackel-Roy

Sorry only have deutsch books

>Schachnovelle
Yeah boi

What publisher are those green spines from?

Heron Books 'Books that have Changed Man's Thinking' collection.

All my books come from second hand stores. As does everything else I own.

Cloud Atlas, Europe Central, East of Eden, Ficciones, and The Pale King are probably the most worthwhile ones on that shelf.

I found a crushed newt in the middle of a book i got from a second hand store once. A whole newt.

Totally serves me right for not flicking through it before i bought it, but even so i still wonder about the circumstances that lead up to it becoming trapped.

Now i buy my books off of those big lowish price distributors on Amazon. Rarely fails me.

>Books that have Changed Man's Thinking

Umm, sexist much??? Literally shaking.

I just started reading "How to Read and Why" recently and it feel like every other sentence is a reference to some literary meme that I'm not familiar with.

Just keep at it, user. Bloom has a wonderful way of looking at literature that is hugely beneficial even for those of us without his prodigious memory and breadth of reading.

What edition of Joyce did you pick up?

The Stranger

High Rise - J G Ballard
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Mostly recommended stuff, Ive been enjoying Mitchell and McCarthy lately though.

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Really good taste, user.

(uncracked spines, though...)

maybe try the good McCarthy, Mary McCarthy

>backlog
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Petersburg is a must, seriously underrated masterpiece. Not a bad backlog though. I think you can save Vineland for when you've read more Pynchon.

My backlog:
The Magic Mountain
Being and Time
The Corrections
Warlock
Light in August
Underworld
Sanctuary(Faulkner)
Anna Karenina
Under the Volcano
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time

Might just save Ulysses, Being and Time, The Magic Mountain, Don Quixote and Proust for when I go on holiday next month. I could probably make great progress with all of them in fact since I won't have internet for three months or so.

Journey and Book of the New Sun are great. Can't go wrong with Celine.

Finish Moby Dick

> he can't read books without opening them

Oops, good point. Carry on.

Sound and Fury or Jacob's Room?

Brothers Karamazov

Backlog:
>Dubliners
>The Sound and the Fury
>Visions of Cody
>Blue Highways
>The Winter of our Discontent

Light in August, of course
and Anna Karenina (but that's a winter book)

You could read the Shakespeares in a week, Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick are the most enjoyable of the rest

Sorry Russians are mostly winter reads for me.

Under the Volcano is great. Good sort of wandering boozy haze of a book.

There's some Veeky Forums in my Veeky Forums but a backlog is a backlog
A Farewell to Arms
Red Badge of Courage
Un corsair au bagne, Garnerey
La Guerre de Cent Ans, Minois
The Golden Ocean, O'Brian
Ivanhoe
Everything in pic related except for Vinland, Gilgamesh and Orkneyinga

Oh, and the Nibelungenlied

I need some good historical fiction

O'Brian. Enjoy 20.5 books of sheer bliss.

A book like The Magic Mountain can be read in a week, it's way less laborious than people make it sound, Being and Time is only really tough in the beginning until you get into his style

Higly recommend LIA. A bit conveluted at times but overall great.

Bump

Yeah I'm half way through Faust then going on to Petersburg , I've already read all other Pynchon

In the home stretch of Urth of the New Sun as well as Infinite Jest.
The books staring at me on my desk are:
>Possession - A. S. Byatt
>The Count of Monte Christo - Dumas
>The Baron in the Trees - Calvino
>The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton
>Baudolino - Umberto Eco

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