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Big books > 500 pages that are good but unappreciated / not widely known?

>> No.12727639

>>12727627
The Man Without Qualities

>> No.12727699

>>12727627
Atlas shrugged...
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JK it was trash. Rand should have just written essays.

>> No.12727704 [DELETED] 

>>12727627
That girl looks like she’s into black dudes

>> No.12727710 [DELETED] 

>>12727704
Fuck you cuck don’t rub your cuckage onto us. Interracial relationships are rather rare

>>>/pol/

>> No.12727711 [DELETED] 

>>12727710
Why so jealous whiteboi?

>> No.12727712 [DELETED] 

>>12727711
Jealous? I’ve got a girlfriend who looks better than that.

You’re the one pretending to be a black guy over the Internet, cuck

>> No.12727721 [DELETED] 

>>12727712
You incels need to go back
>>>/r9k/

>> No.12727723 [DELETED] 

>>12727721
>linking /r9k/
I’ll only say it one more time

>>>/pol/

>> No.12727737

>>12727627
Harry Potter: The Order of the Pheonix

>> No.12727743 [DELETED] 

>>12727723
>>>/lgbt/

>> No.12727758 [DELETED] 

>>12727743
>>>/out/

>> No.12727761 [DELETED] 

>>12727758
Outdoors is a comfy board, retard.

>> No.12727781

Quiet Flows The Don

Not exactly unknown, but not talked about enough here

>> No.12727852

>>12727627

Sigrid Undset

>> No.12727893

>>12727627
The Wars of Justinian

>> No.12728275

>>12727627

Spengler is unappreciated even though everyone is living it

>> No.12729115

Polybius and Pliny the Elder

>> No.12729121
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This masterpiece over here. You're not gonna read it though, because you sistematically refuse to learn Italian.

>> No.12729331

>>12727627
Petrolio

>> No.12729363

>>12727627
Plotinus - Enneads

>> No.12729372
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>>12727627
Totally badass fictionalisation of the French Revolution with doomed friendships, looming disaster and a million historical figure cameos.

>> No.12729377

Darconville’s Cat

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Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it.

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This one

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ignored outside France

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dunno why i dont see this talked about

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lichtenberg wrote two volumes of hogarth commentary

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>> No.12730479

>>12727627
las sorias

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all three volumes

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>> No.12730612

>>12727781
This

>> No.12730725

>>12727627
Wilhelm Meister

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Pic related is never discussed and Cuckoo's Nest gets all the love but it's a tremendous novel and IMO it's absolutely a contender for the Great American Novel.

Of course if you're not a burgerclap it might not resonate with you as much

>> No.12732366

“OP is a Faggot: Why Jezebel Posters are Killing /lit/“

>> No.12733323

>>12727627
I wanna fuck this hipster witch right in the anus while shes sitting on that chair and leaning her ass out and then blow a big nofap 150 day load up her left colic flexure and the just cool of on the floor for like twenty minutes and then have a ice coffee and ask how her day was but not give a fuck when she precedes to tell me. That load should look brownish reddish with white blood cells all over it.

>> No.12734746

>>12730534
This is fantastic

>> No.12734875
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Fathers and Crows and The Dying Grass by Vollmann

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Really underground

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>>12730452
Good answer. That one and Buddenbrooks really deserve more love.

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>> No.12735134
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The King of Vinland's Saga

>> No.12735154

>>12727627
Sollers, Women

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1372 pages

>> No.12735251

>>12727627
I’d like to see her get blacked

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The Easy Chain - Evan Dara

>> No.12735433

>>12733323

came here to say this

>> No.12735453

>>12735433

came here to say you’re a faggot

>> No.12735486

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow is absolute biblio

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>>12735453

ohhh yeah now slap me and spit in my face

>> No.12735800
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Stendhal is amazing

>> No.12735819

Never really see Petersburg or Bely being discussed much despite both being great. I'd also suggest Ford Madox Ford and his Parade's End series.

>> No.12736751

>>12727627
Savitri by Sri Aurobindo

>> No.12736798

>>12735021
it isn't even translated in french, wtf

>>12735819
I wanna buy petersburg because it's recommended very often, but as you say it's hardly ever discussed. What bugs me is that nobody ever says just what it's actually about. Is it really impossible to sum up the plot in 2 plain clear sentences?

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I think some of Anthony Trollope's books are very underappreciated, The Way We Live Now is especially good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171458.The_Way_We_Live_Now

>The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. "I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age," Trollope said. His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune.

>His picture of late nineteenth century England is of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, where the traditional virtues of Tory squirearchy, represented by Roger Carbury, prove to be no match for the financial genius of Augustus Melmotte.

>> No.12738067

>>12729542
good book

also: the thin red line

>> No.12738637
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The Instructions

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Book of Numbers and Witz

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>> No.12739311

>>12735134
My dad really likes this book but this is the first time I’ve seen anyone else mention it

>> No.12739318

>>12736798
From what I’ve heard it’s like a Russian Ulysses, which would make it difficult to sum up.

>> No.12739959

In Partial Disgrace

>> No.12740037

>>12738637
Nice try, Adam. No one other than try-hard bloggers, v-loggers and Paris Review rejects are gonna pretend to read your book and peddle it to the hoi polloi.

>> No.12740061

Wyndham Lewis - The Apes of God
Paul Verhaeghen - Omega Minor
Women and Men of course

>> No.12740082

>>12734875
Do I have to read the other Dreams books first?

>> No.12740103

>>12738637
is this YA

>> No.12740198

>>12740082
Nope, they are all standalone.

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800 pages of comfy discussion and feels.

>> No.12740401

>>12727781
it isn't talked about because only the first third of it is good

this book is the gold standard for a talented novelist committing artistic suicide out of political expediency

>> No.12742113

>>12730534
Secondig this masterpiece.

>> No.12742114

>>12740103
KEK

>> No.12742617

>>12736798

On the surface level it is about a govenor's son being involved with a group who want him to blow up his father's office but it is much more layered and denser than that. I can't remember if it was ambiguous or not the son was just batshit and the group never existed or not but I recommend the book since it is rich in symbolism. I suggest the Elsworth translation from Pushkin Press.

>> No.12743800

>>12730558
very exited to get to this some day, but one of the characters I think the mc was in two other novels and they are themselves metafictional, so im gonna try those first.

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Creation by Gore Vidal, this isn't read/talked about nearly as much compared to his other historical books like Burr and Lincoln, not that those books are at all bad but this one is really quite excellent and has a more "epic" sweeping story that's very well executed.

>> No.12745499

Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook

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He's not unknown but this book really is superb at times.