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Just finished this and really enjoyed it (outside of part 2). What are your favorite doorstoppers?

>> No.18966023

>>18965997
Don Quixote
The Man Without Qualities
War and Peace
The Magic Mountain

I'm really interested in reading Proust and Chateaubriand big boy books at some in my life. Joseph and his Brothers by Mann too.

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LEER BOLAÑO?

MÁS PREFIERO Y MEJOR

COMER BUÑUELO.


« 零 »

>> No.18966053

>>18965997
the count of monte cristo

>> No.18966070

>>18965997
W&P
TBK
Lonesome Dove
The Magic Mountain
Buddenbrooks
Don Quixote
Mason and Dixon
Montaigne’s Essays
USA Trilogy
Les Miserables
The Savage Detectives
Casanova’s Memoirs

>> No.18966802

>>18966023
>The Man Without Qualities
Did you read this in the original German or in translation? If a translation, which one? I've been eyeing this one recently because it's been on my radar for years and I've recently been very tempted to read it, but I read very slowly and I know it will be a long time before I either finish it or drop it.

>> No.18967322

>>18966802
I'm currently nearing the end of it. Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike translation.
I honestly don't know what to think of it or how to explain it to people who ask. I think i've been filtered by it

>> No.18967345

>>18965997
Is In Search of Lost TIme too big to be a doorstopper? Feel like it should be in a different category. Barndoorstopper.

>> No.18967361

>>18966053
>childish fairy tale
>good literature
bruh

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heres a list of them

1Q84 was good

>> No.18969086

>>18966023
>Proust
I plan to start him next spring: hopefully by the time I finish volume six, Penguin's volume seven will be out.

>> No.18969213

>>18969086
The modern library version is high quality.

>> No.18970625

Shelby Footes The Civil War a Narrative was 3,000 pages of pure bliss.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gravity’s Rainbow

I liked the rubber plant in 1Q84

>> No.18970631

>>18965997
Glad to see i'm not the only one who didn't enjoy part 2