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What are the best doorstoppers?

>> No.13406617

>>13406548

Roots

>> No.13406627

>>13406548
The Anatomy of Melancholy NYRB

>> No.13406633

Complete Plutarch
Landmark edition of Thucydides and Herodotus
Archaeological Bible

>> No.13407035

The Recognitions
Women and Men
2666
Against the Day
Islandia
Bleak House

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Gaskun’s 12 novel space autism epic

>> No.13407132

In Search of Lost Time

>> No.13407639

>>13406548
a doorstopper

>> No.13407644

>>13406548
>his house house doors
Check out the insecurity on this guy

>> No.13407646

infinite jest

>> No.13407651

>>13406548
Bottom's Dream

>> No.13407681

2666
Жизнь и cyдьбa
Buddenbrooks
Boйнa и миp
Los Detectives Salvajes
ねじまき鳥クロニクル
Romance da Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-volta

>> No.13407770

The Familiar, if it ever gets finished. just think of it. 27,000 pages

>> No.13407777

>>13406548
my diary desu

>> No.13408968

My Struggle - Knausgård

>> No.13410171

>>13406548
i read gone with the wind, that thing was 1400 fucking pages long, shogun was shorter page length but the text was tiny it hurt my head.

>> No.13410266

>>13408968
You're an absolute moron.

>> No.13411221

I unironcally liked IJ
Does LOTR count? Or Anna Karenina? Or TBK?

>> No.13411224

The talmud

>> No.13411259

>>13407639
this. use the right tool for the job.

>> No.13411265

2 6 6 6

>> No.13411385

>>13411221
everyone unironically likes IJ, they just pretend to hate it to look cool and hipster

>> No.13412329

Don Quixote

>> No.13412334

>>13407681
>Romance da Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-volta
Baseado e Sertão-pillado.

>> No.13412550

>>13407681
>>13412334
>Portuguese
cringe y azul-pastillado

>> No.13412572

>>13407681
>cites japanese doorstopper
>fucking murakami, the guy who writes thinking about how his prose will sound in english, and is as complex as a light novel
Jesus dude if you're gonna go weeb at least go for 源氏物語, οu 八犬伝, not a postmodern author.

>> No.13412893

>>13411224
the talmud fills up several bookshelves