What are some big novels (800 pages or more) that aren't unreadable pseud shit. Like with a plot, many plots even, and lots of characters and nice words all strung together.
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What are some big novels (800 pages or more) that aren't unreadable pseud shit.
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Praxis series are doorstoppers but fun. Like a non-gay Dune.
>non-gay
but where's the fun in that?
Musashi.
Good call, this is somewhat what I mean.
A similar one I'd like to read on day is Shiba Ryotaro's Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, which is 4 vols in English.
war & peace
of human bondage by somerset maugham
Los Sorias
The Recognitions
the three musketeers
journey to the west
I own Journey to the West. Waley's Monkey is one of my fave novels, so I hope the longer version is even better.
War & Peace and Les Miserables are precisely the sort of books I mean... but what are some less obvious examples?
I assumed this was pomo shit. I don't want anything where it's ambiguous as to who's speaking or what's going on.
>Waley's Monkey is one of my fave novels, so I hope the longer version is even better.
I started reading Journey of the West before I picked up Monkey, and I dropped it after the first few pages- It's just unnecessary. Unless something changes radically after that, the "originals" are much better, both in word choice and in atmosphere.
I'm gonna be honest though, I have no idea what ver. I'm going off of. As far as I can tell, it's the 2005 Silk Pagoda edition that was "adapted from the WJF Jenner translation" at least that's what it says in the epub. I really like the way it's written- novel form, but frequently interrupted by "listen to this sick ass poem someone wrote about it" So you get the best of both worlds.
Less miserable
why don't they just translate the title? It's notoriously hard to pronounce for anyone who isn't french. just call it the misery, so it sounds like a baller MCR song
The Four Great Chinese Novels (That Are Actually Six)
IJ
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.
I have this!
I considered reading it next, even. Just have to find my copy.
Anyway good night chums, I'm off to read.
I better have more recs when I check in tomorrow...
You’re describing infinite jest but I doubt you want to hear that
Middlemarch.