/lit/ - Literature

More specifically his novels?
Ive rather enjoyed his poetry, but I’ve yet to read any of his novels and never see them discussed here. What are your opinions anons? Are they worth reading?

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>But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

In Thomas H

>tfw used to be a huge fan of nabokov
>read his complete works
>loved the elegant prose
>now see him as a turgid mix of opulence and shallowness
>now see him as the liberace of literature
>have fallen for the thick philosophical victorian tomes of hardy, Melville, thackeray, eliot, James and sickens
>tfw lost all interest in the unemotional detached irony of modernism and post modernism
>tfw now crave realism, intricate themes, neoclassicism and complex characters I used to hate, along with philosophical insights and musings on human
>tfw tess of the d'urbervilles has replaced pale fire as my favourite book

You guys ever read Thomas Hardy's most famous trilogy:

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Two on a Tower
• Return of the Native

Who thinks that the contrived nature of Hardy's writing takes away from the narrative and its profound tragedy?