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  1. 10-04-2010, 08:15 PM #1
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    The bestestest-book-of-all-times you never read?

    Absolutely top everything? Everyone recommended it? But ... you Must! Canon-this-canon-that?

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    I'm trying to read it since 1982 ...
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    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.
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  3. 10-04-2010, 10:58 PM #3
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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.
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    Can't say there's a bad thing about Catcher in the Rye or 80629.

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  5. 10-05-2010, 12:21 AM #5
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    The Recognitions - Gaddis
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    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.
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  7. 10-05-2010, 03:46 PM #7
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    Quote Quoting Melville (view post)
    I think I'll like Pedro Paramo too.
    It's excellent.



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  8. 10-07-2010, 01:04 PM #8
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    charlotte's web. that book looks many kinds of awesome.
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    O Finnegans Wake, one day, when I finally go completely mad, I will conquer you and angels will sing of my glory.
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    Quote Quoting Melville (view post)
    ... Dostoevsky's The Devils ...
    You'll love this madly.
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    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.
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    I haven't read a lot of the big ones. Ulysses, Watership Down, Moby Dick, Great Expectations, Atlas Shrugged, and the list goes on.
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    There are too many to list for me.

    I'm terribly under-read when it comes to the classics (both modern and...er...classic).
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    According to my calculations, it's a tie between Pride and Prejudice and Ulysses. But I'm just gonna say Moby Dick.
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    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.
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    Quote Quoting D_Davis (view post)
    It's excellent.
    Quote Quoting kuehnepips (view post)
    You'll love this madly.
    Excellent.

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    O Finnegans Wake, one day, when I finally go completely mad, I will conquer you and angels will sing of my glory.
    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,...).
    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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  17. 10-15-2010, 12:18 AM #17
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    Quote Quoting Melville (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,...).
    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.
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