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Post your favorite book, someone make a suggestion for what other books you may like.

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my favorite (today)

>> No.1683130

>>1683118
The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

My favourite book? See above

>> No.1683139

>>1683130
thanks!


that's one I've honestly never read, although I was getting around to it

I'll bump it up my queue

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If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino.

My fave? I don't know that this is my fave, but I'll put it anyway. Ovid's Metamorphoses.

>> No.1683143

>>1683139
Normally I'd say "it's really dense, know what you're getting into" but based on what you've posted and we've discussed, you're going to love it and have a great time with it.

Alternatively, you might like Gaddis' J.R. more, because it's a little bit more Pynchon-esque

>> No.1683149

>>1683143
yeah, thanks, I'll pick up both

>> No.1683168

>>1683145
>If on a winter's night a traveller

sounds kind of gimmicky.

is it good?

>> No.1683177

>>1683168
It is quite gimmicky, and it does detract at times, but it's thoroughly charming.

>> No.1683180

The Decameron by Boccaccio

>> No.1683181

>>1683168

I'm reading that at the moment, almost at the end now. It's been a great read so far, really enjoyable and lots of food for thought. Plus, because it's essentially a collection of short stories mixed in with a second person narrative it has a lot of variety in it, although of course the themes are always the same, and there are plenty of self references.

Really enjoying it so far.

Amongst my favourites are Catch 22, The Spire by William Golding and The New York Trilogy.

>> No.1683190

>>1683177
I'll put it on the queue

>> No.1683341

bump cause this thread isn't about rand or hitler

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I really had to think about this, it was a toughie, but finally I think (da da daaaaa)

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The line "We're going down, we're a screaming, gleaming death machine" still makes me chuckle. DeLillo gets my vote for bst US writer of the 20th century.

>> No.1683375

>>1683365
Read this for the first time last year and I liked it. I wish I had read this at 16, 'cause the teenaged me woulda fucking loved it.

I tried reading other Delillos and I was just not impressed

>> No.1683400

>>1683375

Really? I thought that Mao II in particular was totally incredible, and I really liked Running Dog I think DFW did too, because Infinite Jest is like it in many ways, but more verbose and less impressive, but YMMV

His later work like Cosmopolis and Underworld, I didn't like so much, but I'd still argue that even his worst writing is as good as many other celebrated authors' best.

>> No.1683410

>>1683400
I didn't mind Mao II. I read that, and Underworld and The Names. I hated those two. None of these three books seemed to have White Noise's structural tightness, youknowhatimean?

>> No.1683431

>>1683410

I'll be honest, I can hardly remember The Names, it's been a while since I read it. I thought that Underworld suffered from DeLillo feeling the pressure to write the Great American Novel - some doorstopper you can beat a donkey to death with.

DeLillo's had a pretty varied career, tried his hand at everything (including Sci-fi in the bizarre Ratner's Star, which doesn't get read often enough if you ask me). He's a great writer, but I don't think anyone likes everything he's written.

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>> No.1683569

>>1683538

Read The Rum Diary for sure.

Current Favorite: Eyeless in Gaza by Huxley. In a similar vein I've also enjoyed The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, and Island and The Genius and the Goddess by Huxley.

Any suggestions for similar books?

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HERE'S MINE

CAN'T RECOMMEND, AS I'VE READ NONE OF THE WORKS LISTED YET :(

>> No.1683611

>>1683595
Based on your recommendation for that book, capsguy, I went to the bookstore in my city and they said they don't carry it and they can't order it in for me. Pic related... it was my face

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>>1683611
this pic, I mean. Not sure why I'm anon, there.

>> No.1683614

>>1683613
THEY SUCK THEN.

TELL THEM YOU WON'T EVER GO THERE AGAIN, BECAUSE ALL THEY'D NEED TO DO IS JUST ORDER A FEW COPIES FROM BOOKDEPOSITORY AND ADD A FEW BUCKS TO IT FOR THEIR LITTLE GROSS PROFIT SO THAT THEY COULD CONTRIBUTE A BIT MORE TO OVERHEAD LIKE RENT ETC.

BAD BOOKSHOP, BAD!

>> No.1683625

>>1683611

I haven't seen that exact book, but there are a few of Grossman's other works floating around the internet if you want to read him. There's one on Demonoid for instance, and most likely #bookz too...

>> No.1683631

>>1683625
#BOOKZ HAS:
THE ROAD
A WRITER AT WAR
LIFE AND FATE

ALL IN VARIOUS EBOOK FORMATS.

THEY DON'T SEEM TO HAVE EVERYTHING FLOWS THOUGH. I'LL BE REVISITING SOLZHENITSYN AND GROSSMAN SOON BY READING THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO AND A WRITER AT WAR.

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my favorite

>> No.1683634

>>1683614
Fuck it. I just ordered it off Amazon!

>>1683625
Thanks, but I can't read an ebook. Ain't got no e-reader

>> No.1683640

>>1683634
AWESOME MAN

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4206268?shelf=currently-reading

THIS IS WHAT I'LL BE READING IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. ALWAYS GOOD TO MIX THOSE DOOR-STOPPERS IN WITH SHORTER WORKS.

>> No.1683656

>>1683640
Jesus Christ, capsguy. You put me to shame with my to-read list

>pynchon
>grossman
>some noir set in california to make me think i live there

>> No.1683672

>>1683640
Also, and I hate to samefag here, but Capsguy, have you ever read Paul Scott's the Raj Quartet? It's this really epic four book cycle about the end of the British Raj, and it covers this huge cast of characters. Sounds like the kind of epic you like. I recommend it.

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>>1683595
Capsguy, have you read War and Peace, Life and Fate by Tariq Ali?

It's an essay where he talks about both novels and why he believes Grossman's is the superior work.
I'm sure you've read War and Peace, caps? why do you prefer grossman?

>>1683118
2666
>>1683145
David mitchell.
>>1683365
Wallace.
>>1683538
Thoreau.
>>1683545
Bukowski.
>>1683554
Rick moody.
>>1683632
Victor pelevin.

pic - New Yorker issue containing Hapworth 16, 1924

>> No.1683675

>>1683656
DON'T GO LOOKING IN MY ACTUAL TO-READS LIST, IT'S TOO LONG :(

I'M ABOUT TO GO OUT AND PICK UP PETERSBURG, SO EXCITED, SINCE SO MANY ANONS VOUCHED FOR IT. WILL PROBABLY READ THE SHORT 'THE JUDGEMENT' BY KAFKA ON THE WAY

>> No.1683718

>>1683674
David... Mitchell? The chubby guy that appears on QI?

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EVERY DAY, ALL DAY

>> No.1683735

>>1683675

I just saw your photo on goodreads. It's odd to put a face to the caps.

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>>1683718
bwaaaa hahahahaha. That guy's face gets posted around here. he's hilarious; but no. pic related.

try number9dream.

>> No.1683755

Speaking of Salinger, is there anyone who writes short stories and novellas like he does?

I can't get enough of the compacted and dense but remarkably quick way he wrote his glass family stuff and stories like The Laughing Man and Just Before the War with the Eskimos.

>> No.1683778

>>1683755
um, god, I can't think of anyone except Dfw.

>> No.1683782

>>1683755

get pigeon feathers or the same door by updike

>> No.1683791

>>1683755
>>1683674
nobody really writes like salinger did. That isn't to say he's the greatest writer of all time or something but his voice and style are extremely distinct and trying to read anybody because they source him is almost always a zero sum game, at least as far as I've read.

updike and cheever are always good ways to go though.

>> No.1683796

>>1683791
>yates, and cheever are always good ways to go though.

there, fix'd