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>>2809638
checking to see if this works

OP I recommend The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

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I've never read any of yours, OP, so I can't recommend anything.
I assume that the rest of Murakami's works would be fine, but you've probably already read them.

>>2809844
Forgot my gosh darn picture.

>>2809846

I'd suggest The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and Homer's Odyssey and The Iliad.

>>2809946
Based on your enjoyment of "The Terror," you might enjoy:
A play called "The Frozen Deep," written by Wilkie Collins with assistance and production by Charles Dickens.
Jules Verne's "Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras"
Sten Nadolny's "The Discovery of Slowness"
Mordecai Richler's "Solomon Gursky Was Here"
William T. Vollmann's "The Rifles"

All of those are based on the same premise of The Terror.

>>2809846
A little off topic, but how in hell does the cover of The Sun Also Rises match the story? It looks like a cover of a Greek mythology!

>>2809957
I was thinking that exact same thing when I was looking at it.
I was trying to figure out what that might represent in the book. No idea.

>>2809956

Thanks! Definitely going to try to find that Jules Verne book at the library tomorrow.

>>2809965
read any Melville? and how about Lowry's "Under the Volcano"?

Bear in mind that The Name of the Rose is my favourite by a long long long long long long way.

>>2809629

Bumpity Bump, because this thread is actually pretty decent.

>>2810535
Read Beckett's novels yet? I'll suggest Eugene Ionesco's plays to you, if you haven't read him yet.

>>2809965
You might be interested in Robert Walser's work, since you like Kafka.

>>2809629
You might like Life of Pi, OP.

>>2809946
You might like Ba Jin's Family or Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu, since you liked The Good Earth.

Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
Robert Walser - Selected Stories

honourable mention: Proust.

>>2810550
Thanks. I've read most of Beckett's works, including his fiction.
I'll check out Eugene Ionesco.

>>2809629
Op you will really like:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79550.The_Summer_Book
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

>>2810535
I found Kafka on the Shore much, much, better than Norwegian Wood, give it a try if you haven't already.

Giacomo Leopardi - Thoughts (Selections from Zibaldone)
Heinrich Heine - Essays, Reflections, Harz Journey
Senancour - Obermann (A combination of Pascal and the Wertherian Goethe)

>>2810603
I'm 20 pages into The Summer Book. Just started it this morning.

So far I'm enjoying it. A lot of people seem to love it.

>>2810527
If you like the Odyssey you may enjoy, if you haven't already read them, the Dionysica of Nonnus, the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, and, the Greek Anthology (Anthologia Graeca) is to be prized, containing fragments that are alone worth at least a half dozen modern novels.

>>2810606
Cheers, I'll give them a read/

I'm afraid they don't have much in common.

>>2810604
Really great book. I'm planning on reading all of Tove's works.

>>2810620
The Famished Road

The picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Crime and punishment

>>2810670
How completely uninspired. It's like you googled "best books of all time" and then chose three random ones from the top 100. Jesus.

>>2810692
Well, not everyone can be a little special snowflake like you.

>>2810715
I know, it's a fact that always deeply saddens me.

>>2810719
The only thing that should make you sad is how shallow you are.
>you can't like those, they're popular!

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Villette by Charlotte Bronte

>>2810722
I like popular books as well, relax. It's just that your books seem to be the three that every pleb says if you ask them "Name three famous books"

>>2810728
Just because I like them doesn't mean I'm "pleb". I'm not even trying to defend myself, just teaching you to be less judgemental based on petty things.

>>2810753
I'm not a perfect person, I'm sorry. One of my main flaws is that I struggle not to judge things by their covers, and it's a habit, or a trait, that I've tried to kick time and time again.

I'm addition, I am not in a good place right now, and I probably took it out on you. Sorry.

>>2810761
It's ok dude, I'm sure things will get better for you.

OP here, pleasantly surprised this thread is still on the first page from last night.
>>2810572
I have read and really enjoyed Life of Pi!
>>2810558
I do plan on going through all of Murakami's works, so Wind-Up is on my list. I'll check out The Summer Book, thank you!

>>2810620
Between Emma's domestic drama and Murakami, I'll recommend you After Dark (OP here) since it's a mix of both. Have not read your other choice though.

Finnegans Wake, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, and Les Gommes are what I'd say are my three favourite books. But the reality is the three books I have reread most times are The Colour of Magic, Lolita and Robinson Crusoe.

So what I believe to be my favourite books are incongruous with the reality of my actions.

People whose favourite book is The Trial should really read Dead Souls by Gogol.

And Robinson Crusoe dude: You might like The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, or The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

I'm autistic with image editing so I'll just post my list.

Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

>>2810828
Good suggestions, read those a long time ago though. I'm more interested in the Situationist aspect of Robinson Crusoe though.

Bump for interest

>>2809629
>Shadow of the Wind

Mah nigga. That book was amazing. Zafon is definitely a new Dickens.

>>2810900

wot.

>>2811504
Let's not get carried away.

>>2811509
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

>>2811520
Far too far, imo. Maybe it was my editions english translator but man it feels like YA fiction. The first sex scene the kid walks in on was too much, it was like I was reading a Mills and Boon's romance novel.

>>2810895
A Summer Book
Nine Stories. In particular, A Perfect Day for Bananafish.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Island(huxley)
Astonishing The Gods
Mccarthy's works
V and The crying of lot 49
>>2810892
The Castle(kafka)
Kafka's short stories
The Famished Road
Astonishing The Gods

All Quiet on the Western Front, Zadig, Tropic of Cancer

The Gunslinger
Ubik
Don Quixote

Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
Notes from Underground

Reviving because actually a good thread.

A Confederacy of Dunces
Snow Crash
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

The Famished Road
Animal Farm
Wild:An Elemental Journey (should be harry potter but I don't think I'd want recommendations)

The Sea-Wolf
The Neverending Story
Animal Farm

kind of an odd mix I suppose

John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the night
Alexander Dumas - The count of Monte-Cristo

>>2810512

I've read Moby Dick and loved it, I have The Confidence Man and White Jacket sitting in my shelf, unread. I'll have to get to them eventually. I've heard great things about 'Under the Volcano'

>>2810551

Thanks, I remember a thread about him a little while ago. A kind anon posted links to a few of his works, Jakob von Gunten included, which I plan on getting to. Seems like a hell of a writer.

>>2814543

Definitely check out Vonnegut if you haven't. The Diamond Age by Stephenson is a great read as well.

>>2816177

East of Eden, This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon, if you haven't read them. You might like Hemmingway as well

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Old Man and the Sea

>>2816206

I have read East of Eden and generally liked it very much - some aspects of it were rather stiff, but I love Steinbeck's style.

I have not read The last tycoon or This Side of Paradise. How do they compare with The Great Gatsby or Tender is the night? As in themes, characterization etc.

>>2816215

This Side of Paradise is great, it's his first novel and as such his style isn't as fully developed as it is in Gatsby, but there are some really lyrical moments that make it worth the read. The Last Tycoon is unfinished but it was his last work and probably his most mature. They're definitely worth a read, it's been a while since I read them but I remember enjoying both immensely, at least as much as Tender is the Night

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell

Any recs at all would be cool.

>>2816351
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Advenutures of Huckleberry Finn.
More McCarthy - All the pretty horses, if you love it, read it's two sequels.
All Orwell - Down and out in paris and londo n etc
V by Pynchon

>>2809629
Foundation and Empire
Slaughterhouse V
Of Human Bondage

Venus in Furs
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

And I recommend them to everyone in this thread.

>>2816662
Have you read the sequel to Alice? I'm in a rush, I'll make mroe recommendations later.

Good thread..

The sirens of titan - Kurt vonnegut
The glass bead game - Hermann hesse
The lost continent - bill bryson

anna karenina
the grapes of wrath
the dharma bums

Cities of the Red Night
Dune (the whole series is amazing)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Elritch

>>2809629
shadow of the wind kinda sucked, OP.

NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND - Hermann Hesse
Island/Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Galapagos- Kurt Vonnegut

Out of all of them, Hesse I like the most by far.

>>2817240

I'd recommend Catch-22, but you've probably read it already. Perhaps a Confederacy of Dunces?

>>2816930

>Grendel

Mah nigga

>>2816930
Grendel is amazing. The interaction between Grendel and Beowulf alone makes it a worthy book.

1001 Arabian Nights (Richard Burton version)
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Royal Flash (Second of the Twelve Flashman novels)

I haven't read any actual books in a long time. Mostly it's been folk tales and stories and poetry and shit, mostly a few pages in length at most.

was really hard to narrow it down to just three.

>>2817625
I have Tai-Pan. Never bothered to read it though. It's one of the first books that grabs my attention when I look at my shelf too, big bright red hardback copy.

>>2817647

Tai-Pan and Shogun were my favorites. King Rat was pretty good, too. I wouldn't recommend Gai-jin, as it meanders and never goes anywhere. Noble House just inspires paranoia in me, so I wouldn't count it as "good" in the sense that I enjoyed reading it.

>>2817660
My friend has both Shogun and Musashi, I was thinking of borrowing them from him at one point. Should probably read Tai-Pan too. Been caught up reading Arabian Nights (for the ten millionth time lol) and the Flashman novels.

>>2817667

I've only recently started reading the Flashman books, but I'm surprised I hadn't gotten to them sooner. Are you reading them in any particular order?

Lord Jim
The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina

No Conrad recommendations please.

>>2817692
In the order they were released. I know that they jump around order wise, but I'm just reading each one as it came out and taking down notes of stuff that I find interesting.

I already picked up like 4 books on the first Anglo Afgan war based on the notes section in the back of the first Flashman novel.

I too am surprised I never read these earlier. They're a hell of a lot of fun to read. And I'm learning tons about history, which I love to begin with.

The wiki article on Flashman should be able to guide you in some specific order to read them, if you're worried about such a thing.

>>2809629
Hey OP, how was The Shadow of the Wind? My friend is trying to get me to read it. I got it from the library recently and I haven't even read the first page yet.

>>2816706
of course
beware the jabberwock my son

shadow of the wind won't make you think about life and stuff but it's a lot of fun. i've mentioned it here a few times but i never see anyone else mentioning it.

>>2817705

I know what you mean, Flashman and the Redskins makes me want to read about Kit Carson and the Old West.

>>2817752

And I've just been jumping around with whatever my local library has.

>>2817752
That's part of the fun of reading the flashman books. They're based on real events and they sort of push you into reading more about them. Like with the first one, it was awesome to read because I'm bit on India and Middle Eastern lit, so it gave me so many new ideas about material to look towards. Names to look up, events to read about.

Also making me kind of dislike reading books without notes in them lol

>>2817774

Oh yeah, historical novels gotta have notes. And the attention to detail is why I also really like Cornwell.