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Havent read in like a year and looking to get into a hige book. Liked IJ, Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Brothers K. Couldnt get into les mis. Not a huge fan of postmodern stuff like Pynchon but somehow DFW seems to have a relateable thought process and sense of humor so he's an exception for me

>> No.11168827

Thomas Mann, all his novels are long. Joseph and his Brothers particularly.

>> No.11168837

I don't remember exactly how long it is, but maybe you'd like The Leopard?

>> No.11168934

>>11168820
Joseph and His Brothers

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>>11168820
Just read the book, friend.

>> No.11169023

>>11168820

A huge book, eh? Does it have to be fiction?

If so, I guess there's Proust.

If not, how about Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire? Or Shelby Foote's 3-volume history of the American Civil War?

>> No.11169100

>>11168820
Anna Karenina and Proust

>> No.11169107

>>11168820
The Man Without Qualities.

>> No.11169129

Mahabharata

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War and Peace is a safe bet, if you have not already read it. Check the wiki also for recommendations.

>> No.11170347

>>11168827
>>11168837
>>11168934
>>11169009
How does this compare to Magic Mountain? Started reading that one a while ago after reafing Norwegian Wood but got distracted with something else. I remember liking it though

>>11169023
>>11169100
Just picked up Moncrieff's Swan's Way translation

>> No.11170359

>>11169023
How is decline and fall? I love Rome man

>> No.11170418

A Norwegian in the Family by Dan Schneider is 4000 pages

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>>11170418
The perverted guy from Nickelodeon?

>> No.11170431

>>11170424
Nah the Jewish critic and poet with the same name

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>>11168820
Your mothers number of suitors.

>> No.11170774

>>11170359
Beautifully-written garbage. Basically rips off the historian Zosimus in its central thesis. Blames Christianity for the fall of Rome (but conveniently ignores that the Eastern Roman Empire lasted 1000 more years and was even MORE Christian than the West).
In short, it is delectably-written, but in terms of historical merit fit only for a paperweight. Oh and Rome fell because of poor military reforms.