Absolutely top everything? Everyone recommended it? But ... you Must! Canon-this-canon-that?
Me ... Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ...
I'm trying to read it since 1982 ...
Absolutely top everything? Everyone recommended it? But ... you Must! Canon-this-canon-that?
Me ... Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ...
I'm trying to read it since 1982 ...
I can't think of anything fitting all those criteria, but of the canonical novels I haven't read, I think Dostoevsky's The Devils is the one I'm most likely to love. I think I'll like Pedro Paramo too.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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For me, it's Ulysses. I almost bought it again yesterday, as I have a hundred different times, but passed. One of these days I'll pull the trigger. And then it'll only be a few more years from then that I actually read it.
Can't say there's a bad thing about Catcher in the Rye or 80629.
The Recognitions - Gaddis
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
It's probably 1984 (how have I not read that yet?) or something by Dostoevsky, Lowry (Hear Us Oh Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, maybe), Melville, Gaddis... I don't know.
Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.
It's excellent.Quoting Melville (view post)
charlotte's web. that book looks many kinds of awesome.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
O Finnegans Wake, one day, when I finally go completely mad, I will conquer you and angels will sing of my glory.
You'll love this madly.Quoting Melville (view post)
Pedro Paramo and El Llano en Llamas are both incredible. Juan Rulfo was a unique talent.
For me, it's either Borges with Ficciones or, if we have to pick a novel, Nabokov's Lolita.
I need to go back to reading.
I haven't read a lot of the big ones. Ulysses, Watership Down, Moby Dick, Great Expectations, Atlas Shrugged, and the list goes on.
There are too many to list for me.
I'm terribly under-read when it comes to the classics (both modern and...er...classic).
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
According to my calculations, it's a tie between Pride and Prejudice and Ulysses. But I'm just gonna say Moby Dick.
Due to my occupation, this is a rather embarrassing topic for me. Let's just say that there are gaps in my American literature reading history. I've read a lot of short stories from some canonical authors, but there are some novels that I should have read by now, but I haven't.
Quoting D_Davis (view post)Excellent.Quoting kuehnepips (view post)
Yeah, I should have included that too, along with a bunch of philosophy books (e.g., Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript,...).Quoting endingcredits (view post)
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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Being and Nothingness and Being and Time are staring me down from the shelf, asking when the hell I'm going to pick them up.Quoting Melville (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0