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Hey everyone

I am going to be traveling around Europe in a week for a few weeks, but it's with my parents. So during the boring parts and traveling at night etc., I'd like some classics that are enjoyable to read. They don't have to be super long, just literature worth reading that I can enjoy

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Please don't recommend:
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
The Three Musketeers
Don Quixote
War and Peace

As I have read them

>> No.1917418

Moby-Dick

>> No.1917422

>>1917418
That was a bore.

>> No.1917423

Swann's Way?

It's Proust's birthday today, by the way.

>> No.1917428

>>1917422
Are you OP?

>> No.1917430

Story of the Eye.

>> No.1917688

I loved Candide it was fast paced and funny

>> No.1917693

I have read everything suggest bar Proust, but I am afraid it's too deep for me.

>> No.1917700

The Enigma of Arrival, by V.S. Naipaul.

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this is now a philip k dick thread. he was p. cool

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>> No.1917718

>>1917709
Please no

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>>1917709
he was a robot. here's proof.

>> No.1917734

Im gonna read Flow My Tears The Policeman Said after I finish Bright Lights, Big City

>> No.1917739

scaramouche, Cyrano de Bergerac's works L'Autre Monde: où les États et Empires de la Lune (The Other World: The States and Empires of the Moon) (published posthumously, 1657) and Les États et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun)

I will push those last two works onto anyone as they should be required reading especially if you like voltaire

>> No.1917781

Winesburg, Ohio
Death in Venice
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Cannary Row

>> No.1918856

Why Europe sucks by Pat Buchanan

>> No.1918861

Fucking don't bring a load of books. Sneak out of your hotel room or whatever at night and fucking live, seriously! you may not have this chance again for a very long time. Get drunk, explore. Your parents won't kill you for disappearing.

>> No.1918876

>>1918861
Yes. Like you would just sneak out into a foreign city while with your parents. Seems fun, but I know you wouldn't. And what's the fun of getting drunk if you don't know anyone? When you sneak out like that, at least have the brains to experience it.

>> No.1918880

>>1917739
Feel ya bro. After loving the play, I looked up the real Cyrano's works and was quite pleased with them.

>> No.1918884

>>1918876
Well I'll assume you're underageb& if that's your attitude, which I totally get. I hated vacations with the family when I was like 14 and 15 and mostly read books and shit too. It's not even worth convincing you to get pumped about going wild in Europe, but when you're like 20 you'll probably have a very different outlook.

Either way you said specifically "during the boring parts and traveling at night" so that's reasonable. Really though, let loose when possible. Otherwise, read something set in Europe so you'll at least be able to check out landmarks in the book and stuff. (e.g. read Joyce in Ireland). Where are you going?