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Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:16:10 2016 No.7955560 [Reply] [Original]

What books have the most epic, sweeping plotlines /lit/? Something to put me in a state of awe please.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:22:48 2016 No.7955575 >>7955560 Iliad, duh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:40:41 2016 No.7955623 >>7955575 Cant really go wrong with that one Dune is also a good choice

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:41:59 2016 No.7955625 >>7955560 could you give us an example of a book you're looking for? "epic, sweeping plotlines" that puts you in a state of awe seems very open.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:43:20 2016 No.7955628 >>7955625 Illiad is a good example, that and Moby Dick. Some wide spanning conflict of any sort I guess

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 08:50:42 2016 No.7955650 Seconding the Iliad The Aenied War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 09:02:35 2016 No.7955673 >>7955560 The Book of the New Sun

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:30:45 2016 No.7955885 The Bible

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:39:35 2016 No.7955916
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I am going to get crucified (And possible banned) for posting this but:

Kane And Abel-Jeffrey Archer

Before I get hated, I want to clarify that I read it in grade 9 and at that time enjoyed it quite a bit. Don't know if it holds up now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:00:41 2016 No.7956116 File: 692 KB, 280x280, When your wrong on lit.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7955916

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:33:28 2016 No.7956209 Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:35:40 2016 No.7956221 Orlando Furioso

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:38:21 2016 No.7956232 >>7956116 I am so fucking sorry. I did think several times before posting this but I thought I'd do it anyway because I remember being really fond of it back then.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:42:25 2016 No.7956247 >>7956232 All good, my man. I've just never gotten an opportunity to use the gif.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 13:41:10 2016 No.7956476 Homestuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 15:28:29 2016 No.7956838 >>7955673 Is BotNS multiple PoV or nah?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 15:30:55 2016 No.7956844 Le Morte d'Arthur

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 16:20:40 2016 No.7956977 The Malazan Book of The Fallen definitely feels that way since some of the main books take place parallel to each other but with a different character's viewpoint, which make it seem really grand and epic. Plus the worldbuilding is LOTR-tier good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 22:39:53 2016 No.7958088 >>7956977 Definitely. I'll never understand why people say ASOIAF is better than this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 22:45:19 2016 No.7958102 >>7955560 I enjoyed moby dick >inb4 permaban

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 01:56:31 2016 No.7958665 >>7956838 It's all first-person narration from a single unreliable narrator, except for two fables/stories within the series.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 02:02:22 2016 No.7958702 Wheel of Time series. Can get occasionally slow, but if you want sweeping epic, this is it. Fourteen books, page count being in the 800-1200 range for the Tor Classics edition

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 02:12:17 2016 No.7958748 Tours of the Black Clock

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 05:35:30 2016 No.7959356 >>7955560 East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 05:37:16 2016 No.7959363 >>7959356 Wrong

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 05:38:12 2016 No.7959366 >>7959363 How so?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 05:38:32 2016 No.7959367 File: 7 KB, 153x179, 1440966826026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7958702 I have a friend who has read the Wheel of Time series and nothing else (besides some ASoIaF). He's currently re-reading it.

Anonymous Sun Apr 24 14:26:24 2016 No.7960446

war and peace does it as far as things based on real life goes. there's enough personal drama that the big war stuff feels really huge in comparison and it's great to see the characters involved in it
in terms of sci fi and fantasy, the foundation series has a really great sense of scale

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 14:27:02 2016 No.7960447 >>7959363 Wrong. Retry?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:17:12 2016 No.7960606 2001: A Space Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:21:24 2016 No.7960616 >>7958102 Why would you get banned for suggesting Moby Dick? That is a legitimate and good suggestion for what OP asks for.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:28:01 2016 No.7960630 File: 44 KB, 334x500, 51Ki76Qf64L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Alien war book that spans hundreds of years from one mans perspective. Pretty epic to me

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:34:25 2016 No.7960645 >>7955575 >illiad >plotline you mean odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 17:23:01 2016 No.7961015 East of Eden anyone?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 17:29:10 2016 No.7961032 >>7956977 reccing. ignore all those idiots on reddit who claim this is a hard read btw. yeah, it requires you to pay attention but any book worth reading requires a little input from the reader

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