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I've amassed a large qwuantity of books and have a sizeable pile yet to be read.
What should I read next from the following?
Don Quixote
The Idiot
The turn of the screw
Dubliners
Ulysses
Tale of two cities
War and Peace
Faust
The Republic
Not all of em but the ones I can remember right now.

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>> No.474516

TOTS because it's James at his weirdest, then Dubliners because it's effortless to read and ever so fun.

>> No.474599

>Don Quixote
No.

>The Idiot
No. If you want some pretentious Dostoevsky, at least get The Brothers Karamazov.

>The Turn of the Screw
No.

>Dubliners
Yes.

>Ulysses
No.

>Tale of Two Cities
No.

>War and Peace
Fucking no.

>Faust
No.

>The Republic
Yes.

>> No.474600

a sizeable pile

>> No.474601

The Republic or Dubliners.

>> No.474607

let this thread guide you:
>>470601
most of those books are covered and categorised accurately.

>> No.474608

The Quixote is fantastic though. I've rarely laughed harder than I did while reading that book.

>> No.474609

>>474607

Warning, the list in the link is by someone who even AIDS would pass by as unworthy.

>> No.474610

>>474608
yeah i agree with that. I love it when you read an old book or play and you are struck by how modern its sense of humour appears. You get a warm fuzzy feeling of kinship with long-dead folk from the renaissance and realise that human nature is pretty much universal.

Or is that going too far?

>> No.474620

>Don Quixote
Mildly entertaining.
>The Idiot
Good writing, but bores you after some time. Dostoyevski is the best novelist I've seen, though, so, even though ideas are silly, writing kinda redeems his works.
>The turn of the screw
Haven't read.
>Dubliners
Haven't even heard of this.
>Ulysses
Whoa, shit.
>Tale of two cities
Boring.
>War and Peace
Good novel, but Tolstoy is a fag and last tome isn't even fiction. My God, last volume is awful.
>Faust
Shit.
>The Republic
What is this? Don't tell me it's non-ficiton.

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>>474620
>Dubliners
>Haven't even heard of this.

>> No.474628

>>474620
Turn of the Screw is good but you have to be in the mood for The Master. Same with Ulysses--Joyce doesn't read well if you're not open to it.

>>474610
No, I would tentatively agree with that. Human history is extremely repetitious so it shouldn't come as a surprise that that happens. In a lot of ways DQ is a remarkably modern novel.

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>>474627

>The Republic
>What is this? Don't tell me it's non-ficiton.

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>>474620
>The Republic
>What is this? Don't tell me it's non-ficiton.

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>>474599
>Fauste
>No
>Don Quixote
>No
>War and Peace
>No

>> No.474633

>>474629
>>474630
Neither of you shitnuggets read it. What ar eyou so proud of? And it's something written by an ignorant person who didn't even have talent to compose a proper story.

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>>474633
>>474620
>>474599

>> No.474647

>>474635
Reported for reaction image spam.

>> No.474649

>>474647

Shame I can't report you for being a dumbfuck.

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>> No.474688

I would say Faust because its just a great book, part 2 is not for starters though.

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>> No.474707

>>474688
what do you mean part 2. Everywhere I look they only sell part 1 (library's near here are shit and filled with tom clancy/stephen king books). I managed to get a hold of a copy from Modern Library but it just says "Faust" no parts, nothing. I've even tried searching for part 2 on the internets but haven't found much info on it.

>> No.474710

>>474707
lol, wut?

>> No.474711

>>474707
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust:_The_Second_Part_of_the_Tragedy

dude, you fail hard

>> No.474713

>>474711
http://www.amazon.com/Faust-II-Goethe-Collected-Works/dp/069103656X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&a
mp;qid=1269519684&sr=8-8

here is the book

man, google seems to be really difficult

>> No.474714

>>474711
I swear to god they must not sell that book in my state then

>> No.474717

>>474714
Did you ever asked someone at your local bookstore about ordering it?

>> No.474719

>>474717
implying 4chan users are able to talk to people in real life

>> No.474722

>>474719
way to fuck up the greentext, bro

>> No.474727

>>474722
It's called being avant garde