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ITT: The author's superior novel.

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>>12973603

This Side of Paradise is better.

>>12973620

Amerika is definitely underrated but I like The Castle that extra bit more. Everyone either raves about The Trial or The Metamorphosis but The Castle or Amerika rarely receive much attention.

Butcher's Crossing is way more entertaining than Stoner in my opinion.

>> No.12973644

>>12973620
>Not the Trial
Nice meme

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if you prefer House of Leaves, you didn't understand pic related

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>> No.12973679

>>12973644
it's like you don't understand the point of this thread

>> No.12973703

>>12973635
Love Amerika, hate that it's not even near finished. Correct sentiment.

>> No.12973710

>>12973603
>>12973635
Tender Is The Night is better.

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>>12973620
Ayy

>> No.12973728

>>12973620
i think it's probably the weakest of his novels but i really really loved this one too

the ship, the darkened house party, and the occidental hotel were really surreal-comfy. there's a sense of boyish adventure here that kafka's other stuff ignores altogether.

>> No.12973735

>>12973710
Really unquestionably best but B & D is alot of fun to read

>> No.12973739

>>12973715
i also love this book. i think it's stupid to say it's better than infinite jest but it's extremely clever and does well balancing these banal young adult stories with a substratum of cryptic philosophical mystery.

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>> No.12973768

>>12973741
Good but really diffuse so not the compact masterpiece M & D is. I am glad there's someone out there who likes this one best, however-- it deserves more love. My personal favorite's V.

>> No.12973769

>>12973741
>not Bleeding Edge

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>>12973603
Believe it or not. Blithedale second.

>> No.12973835

>>12973728
Very well said.
>>12973715
I still need to read this. I read most of his nonfiction after finishing IJ but moved to other stuff without checking out Broom of the System.

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This is absolute brilliance, one of the few novels that blew my mind (forgive my triteness). Woolf weaves through time, space, and norms with stunning deftness.

>> No.12973906

>>12973856
Damn I didn't even know he wrote a play

>> No.12974189

Absalom, Absalom!

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>>12973710
Undeniable, it's very likely the great American novel

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>>12974745
>the great American novel

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>> No.12975109

>>12973735
>>12974745
Who doesn’t want to be Dick & Nicole Diver (at the beginning of the book)? Comfiest couple ever.

>>12974778
From the same period, supposed to be An American Tragedy, but in the spirit of this thread I’d say Sister Carrie is better. Has anyone here read Dreiser? I see very little discussion of late 19th century American and English literature on /lit/, which I always think is a shame.