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I just got these in the post today (bottom left is 'Things Fall Apart'), and I was wondering what you guys would recommend starting with, I'm leaning towards Peace, but I just finished Wolfe's WizardKnight and I might burn out on it.

Also, post your recent picks.

>> No.6703596

Read Station Eleven and tell us if it's good or not.

>> No.6703621

>>6703596
I've already read Mandel's "The Lola Quartet", so I'd recommend Station Eleven for her prose alone. Can't speak for SE's plot, of course.

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>>6703574
>The Master and Margarita
That's a neat cover. Checked the book out at the library and didn't even finish it for some reason...

Didn't buy pic related, but it was being thrown out at my brother's job.

>> No.6703984

>>6703574
You should've gotten the Wordsworth Master and Margarita if only for the cover.

>> No.6704622

Read Peace it's very different from WizardKnight

also abel is in aelfrice the whole time :^)

>> No.6704667

>>6703574

Why not get the fantasy masterworks omnibus edition of Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator?

>>6703984

I own it for comedic reasons.

Recent pick ups:
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
Lord Byron-The Major Works
Rites of Passage and Fire Down Below-William Golding
Guermantes Way & Sodom and Gomorrah-Proust
The Kraken Wakes-John Wyndham
Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
V.-Thomas Pynchon
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
The Pale King-David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-David Foster Wallace
Although Of Course You Could End Up Becoming Yourself, A Road Trip with DFW-David Lipskey
A Farewell to Arms-Hemingway
Book of New Sun volume 2: Sword and Citadel-Gene Wolfe.

>> No.6704691

>>6703574

Peace is objectively the best of those purchases. My personal favorite Wolfe. It's nothing like most of Wolfe's other work so if you're expecting a high fantasy or sci fi story, it'll be a good change of pace.

The Master and Margarita is also fantastic. Start with these two.

>> No.6704773

>>6703574
The Zhuangzi is something you should never stop reading.

When I moved abroad I only took three books with me, the Norton Shakespeare, Plato's Complete Dialogues and the Zhuangzi.

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6705009

The plain black book is called Vietnam by Alan Watt.

>> No.6705298

>>6704667
>Why not get the fantasy masterworks omnibus edition of Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator?

I already do, homie. Wolfe is the shit.