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Good evening, /lit/

My birthday presents were the following books, and I was wondering if you could tell me what you think, and what order I should read them in:

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad
- The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- The Radleys, by Matt Haig (no idea what this is)

Also, anyone read The Secret History by Donna Tartt? Truly a great book.

>> No.1354190

>The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

Skip the first hundred pages of rampant homoeroticism, then it becomes quite readable.

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1354194

Wilde
Heart of Darkness
Nostromo
Radleys

Also, get the pic-related collection if you can.

>> No.1354196

I enjoyed The Secret History a good deal. Its nice to read thriller that is not completely brain dead/

>> No.1354203

>>1354172

Read Heart of Darkness first. It's short and you get to check that off the list of books that Everyone Must Read. If you dig Conrad's style, go straight into Nostromo. Then tell me how it ends, because my copy got shat on by sky gods before I finished it. If you don't dig Conrad from HoD, skip it and read Dorian instead, maybe come back to it after that other book.

>>1354190

> read Wilde
> skip the homoeroticism

DOING IT WRONG

>> No.1354263

>>1354190
A tad homophobic, are we?

>> No.1354312

>>1354263

Not at all, I just got sick to death of Basil and Lord Henry competing for DG's youthful beauty etc etc etc. We get it.

>> No.1354335

>>1354312


> we get it

loled.

>> No.1354356

I have The Litte Friend and I'm trying to find a copy of The Secret History.

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>>1354356

mfw I realized you weren't talking about Prokopios.

>> No.1354702

>>1354203

This, although you could also try going straight from Gray into Nostromo. The latter is phenomenal, just one of the best novels I've ever read. And I can tell you how it ends if you tell me where you got to.

>> No.1354729

The Secret History is AMAZING.

Ever since I've read that book I subconsciously compare everyone I know to the characters in it. I've met an awful lot of people who remind me of Bunny in near every way, and I'm friends with a few people that remind me of Francis.