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Anonymous Wed Feb 8 11:01:48 2017 No.9078254 [Reply] [Original]

What are the most beautiful, sad, poetic, and profound novels?

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 11:09:28 2017 No.9078282 >>9078278 But The Plague is funny, don't you remember the old man who spat on cats?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 11:14:29 2017 No.9078297 The Idiot

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 11:28:53 2017 No.9078330 File: 223 KB, 500x500, 13838706321.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9078282 I literally cried because of the old man who wanted to write a novel and couldn't even write past the first line.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 12:03:07 2017 No.9078450 >>9078330 But he perfected that first line, anon. That's all that counts.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 12:18:10 2017 No.9078513 >>9078472 >over 100 pages in >absolutely nothing happens

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 13:57:45 2017 No.9078817 >>9078513 It's a long book, the characters have to be introduced properly. Trust me, it's worth it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 15:57:59 2017 No.9079407 The Overcoat

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 16:20:52 2017 No.9079490 >>9078513 Child

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 16:22:04 2017 No.9079497 >>9078254 Hyperion by Hölderin

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 16:33:23 2017 No.9079535 Some Japanese shit idk

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:26:55 2017 No.9079725 >>9078254 De Avonden

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:34:25 2017 No.9079745 File: 105 KB, 507x601, Read it in Spanish for the poetics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9078254

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:37:35 2017 No.9079759 >>9078263 I love you. >>9078254 First three that came to mind because I'm drunk: Catch 22 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:39:29 2017 No.9079768 File: 21 KB, 375x375, 1405325492735.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9078278 >the plague >not boring as fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:40:21 2017 No.9079774 >>9079759 you mention Catch 22 and i'm reading that now. I'm really enjoying its dialogue and wittiness but does it really become sad and profound?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:43:22 2017 No.9079785 >>9079774 Not that anon, but yes it does. It's tonal-shift mastery on a level I've only seen done better by Gogol. You'll see.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:49:10 2017 No.9079809 >>9079774 >does it really become sad and profound it will crawl in to your brain forever and color everything for the rest of your life and yeah, it's gonna hurt

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 17:51:45 2017 No.9079814 Ada, Pnin, and (not for everyone) Transparent Things

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 8 19:20:15 2017 No.9080176 >>9079785 >>9079809 Jeez... sounds dope, thanks for the responses