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So, I love books like The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, and Ulysses. What are the greatest maximalist eternal masterpieces you know of?

>> No.9745237
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Seriously, what else is there, but the tunnel, underworld, sot-weed factor, women and men, petersburg, moby-dick, JR, Against the Day, MD? or are you guys just useless pricks?

>> No.9745358

okay, so you're all fucking plebs.

>> No.9745362

>>9745204
>actually needs help finding door-stoppers
>calls others plebs

take your pomo shit and shove it.

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>>9745362
>no u
you're a fucking pleb. deal with it.

>> No.9745373

>>9745365
post more dank memes

>> No.9745376

>>9745204
back to lereddit, faggot pleb

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>>9745362
>>9745365

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>>9745373
you don't even gnome.
>>9745376
>t. novella reading brainlet

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Infinite Jest.
Pic related, Mario Incandenza, one of Infinite Jest's best characters.

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>>9745389
i will fucking shit on your eyelashes, you donkey anused windcuck

>> No.9745430

here, have some lists:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/45442.Rabelais_Codpiece
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/827.Most_Difficult_Novels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8100.Best_Picaresque_Novels#24835

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>>9745430
already plundered, m'fraid, my dear friend.

>> No.9745595

Darconville's Cat

(You heard it from me first: Theroux is not yet, and may not ever be, a minor /lit/ meme.)

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>> No.9745645

>>9745595
already know of him, certainly.
>>9745637
bahahahahahahahahaaaaahahahahahahaha

>> No.9745656

>>9745645
It's good you pleb

>> No.9745657

>>9745656
go back to r/books

>> No.9745658

>>9745657
>le reddit bogeyman

>> No.9745677

>>9745656
let me be honest with you. he's one of the many who lack the scope and depth required for a maximalist style. he needed a good editor and a person to tell him no.

>> No.9745682

>>9745645
So have you read Theroux yet, then, buddy?

Another rec: Paul Metcalf

>> No.9745693

>>9745682
i've ordered a copy of darconville, really excited.

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Adam Buenosayres
Hopscotch
Leg Over Leg
The Disconnected/Tutunamayanlar (good luck getting an english copy, though)

>> No.9745702

>>9745693
Make a thread when you finish, I only know one person irl who has read it

>> No.9745707

>>9745702
i will. i also went ahead and grabbed warholic as well.
paul metcalf, huh? grandson of melville! interesting.
>>9745696
i'll look into these, thank you very much.