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Anonymous Mon Dec 4 01:31:55 2017 No.10352525 [Reply] [Original]

What are some long, immersive books to get lost in? Preferably fiction. Doesn't matter if it's popular on this board or obscure as long as it meets the criteria.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 01:32:40 2017 No.10352527 >>10352525 gravitys rainbow

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 01:33:27 2017 No.10352530 >>10352525 The Wise man's fear. The War at the end of the World.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 03:01:56 2017 No.10352799 Proust is all you need.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 03:27:20 2017 No.10352890 >>10352525 Unironically the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Not fiction though

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 03:29:34 2017 No.10352901 >>10352525 One answer for you m8: John Cowper Powys, trust me, the next big meme on this Turkish cowtail-braiding forum. Protip: some of his novels are on the Internet Archive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 03:32:08 2017 No.10352914 all the lights we cannot see

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 03:33:42 2017 No.10352918 >>10352525 Musashi, if medieval Japan interests you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 04:06:38 2017 No.10353016 >>10352525 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Montaigne's Essays. St. Simon's Memoirs. Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Proust (second).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 04:15:27 2017 No.10353040 >>10352890 Very easy to get lost in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 04:22:37 2017 No.10353063 >>10352525 Q by Luther Blisset. Its not extraordinarily long but fuck is it immersive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 04:23:22 2017 No.10353067 Malazan Book of The Fallen

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 04:25:38 2017 No.10353075 >>10352525 Against the Day by Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 11:39:49 2017 No.10354149 Infinite Jest. If you want to get lost forever and you have mild autism; Wheel of Time series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 12:36:01 2017 No.10354355 post more friends :)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 15:14:04 2017 No.10354960 The Decameron The Faerie Queen Clarissa Harlowe (really good) Balzac's Lost Illusions (2 vols) War and Peace Gil Blas The Complete Sherlock Holmes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 15:14:48 2017 No.10354964 mason & dixon

Anonymous Mon Dec 4 15:34:57 2017 No.10355032

>>10352525
Snowcrash is a great, long sci-fi novel with incredibly wacky and in-depth world building.
American Psycho is a long, slowly creeping horror masterpiece which exponentially ramps up near the end. You won't be able to put it down but will regret asking yourself "when does this get violent?"
Midnight's Children is a masterwork of magical realism
Blood Meridian feels three times longer than it is due to the meticulous description of the American west. It is a beautiful, depressing story, as all McCarthy books are.
If you want to get as classical as you can, read The Iliad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 16:56:47 2017 No.10355438 "doorstoppers", /lit/ wikia, sticky

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 16:59:10 2017 No.10355451 >>10353063 Best advice

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 17:00:14 2017 No.10355455 >>10352525 2666

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 17:03:51 2017 No.10355469 >>10355455 I don't read Satanic books, I'm christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 17:04:55 2017 No.10355475 >>10352525 Orhan Pamuk, My name is Red

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 17:41:13 2017 No.10355626 File: 63 KB, 585x750, JoyceUlysses2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10352525 >Nobody has posted the ultimate meme yet. I'm disappointed with you all.

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