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The year is halfway over. Post some of the best books you've read so far.

>> No.20602579
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This, hands down.

>"The waves rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness ..."

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>> No.20602746

>>20602564
Lonesome Dove
Giovanni's Room
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J Henry Waugh, Prop.
The Life of the Cosmos
The Liveship Traders
A World History by William McNeill
Your Life Idyllic by Craig Bernier

>> No.20602805

>>20602564
is Dead Souls stylistically good? Reading Diary of a Madman now and it is terrible, is Dead souls better?

>> No.20602834

>>20602564
Henry James’s short stories, esp. Aspern Papers
Borges’s essays
Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Graham Greene’s Tenth Man
Bernhard’s Gargoyles
Nabokov’s Spring in Fialta
Gary Lutz’s Stories in the Worst Way
Joshua Cohen’s Aleph-Bet
Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son
Stephen Crane stories, esp. Open Boat
Kafka’s letters
Sadly not a lot of poetry, but I enjoyed the recent issue of Poetry focused on appropriating or translating ancient texts

>> No.20602876

>>20602579
That's a beautiful passage.

>> No.20603335

>>20602564
Am just about to read this very translation, when I finish Stendhal's Red and Black.

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>>20602564
This isn’t all, but these are my favorites.

The Cidatel of the Autarch
The Conquering Sword of Conan
Child of God
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Kull: Exile of Atlantis
The Great Divorce
This is Water (heard the speech first, though)
The New American Bible
Night Winds
As I Lay Dying
The Sunset Limited
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Gentleman in Moscow

I also re-read Dubliners, currently re-reading Ulysses, and reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man right now. They’re all excellent.

>> No.20603380

>>20602746
>The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J Henry Waugh, Prop.
Would you rec? Wanted to check out a longer Coover for awhile

>> No.20603417

>>20602564
Should I read it? Found it thru a Joy Division song. Heard some people find it to be a clusterfuck

>> No.20603435

Melmoth the Wanderer -- Tremendous tragedy/romance told in a very compelling & unique way.
Doesn't really count but I re-read Ulysses which everyone should really read
>>20602564
I read Dead Souls recently too. It was amazing and possibly the best I have read all year (although the end of the second half became too 'instructive').

>> No.20603441

>>20602564
Really really enjoyed McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy, as well as Ways That Are Dark a book on China, and a book telling the of the Conquistador voyages from a source back then, one of the three main ones.

>> No.20603572

Book of the New Sun
Gravity's Rainbow
Wuthering Heights
All the Pretty Horses
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Re-read Blood Meridian

Currently reading White Noise and quite enjoying it

>> No.20603695

>>20602805
Did you read the P&V translation? I hear it's not great

>> No.20605109

>>20602579
A classic.