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Books that make you go "wow this author is fuckin smart!"

The recognitions
Plus
the once and future king

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You know the one.

>> No.9247200

we get it you read the recognitions pat pat

>> No.9247204

Why did he kill himself

>> No.9247212

>>9247193
>the once and future king
Really? Isn't it just an adventure novel?

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John fucking Barth

>> No.9247216

>>9247212
It's really philosophical and his knowledge of olde tyme England it top stuff.

>> No.9247221

>>9247204
hE FINALLY GOT AROUND TO READING hAROLD bLOOM

>> No.9247297

Everything Alexander Pope

>> No.9247734

Not only because she renders all of her contemporaries transparent: Emily Dickinson.

>> No.9247944

The Man Without Qualities and the Comedy.

Dante and Musil are the two writers I've read who stand out as astonishingly intelligent in terms of pure brainpower.