what can I expect? Also more big fat books that I can read this year. I already have War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables on my to read list. What else?
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what can I expect? Also more big fat books that I can read this year.
THE TALE OF GENJI
Is that like the Japanese Iliad or is that tale of the heike?
> Also more big fat books that I can read this year
The Brothers Karamazov
The Mysteries of Paris
Genji is a novel and Heike is an epic (close to the Iliad).
>The Mysteries of Paris
never heard of this? who wrote this
>Genji is a novel and Heike is an epic (close to the Iliad).
got it
>never heard of this? who wrote this
Eugène Sue
Tom Jones
Tristram Shandy
Clarissa
Buddenbrooks
Middlemarch
thanks
>what can I expect?
One of the great revenge stories with comfy Paris salon chapters. Read the non-abridged version, of course.
>What else?
It's not one book, but rather one big story/arc that I would highly recommend because it's great 19th century literature and fits in nicely with the works you've mentioned.
The unofficial trilogy of Father Goriot, Lost Illusions, and A Harlot High and Low by Honoré de Balzac. That should be around 1500 pages.
>The unofficial trilogy of Father Goriot, Lost Illusions, and A Harlot High and Low by Honoré de Balzac.
I've heard good things about Balzac. I'll add him to the list.
No. I will read the abridged version
Feel free to enjoy an inferior reading experience.
get the World Cloud Classics edition/translation, it's more fun to read. ISBN 978-1607107316.
>World Cloud Classics
any idea on what translation it's using? the anonymous one?
it's the anonymous one.
I couldn’t bother with Monte-Christo it’s just incredibly boring and every character Is desperately one-sided and uninteresting.
On the other hand I absolutely loved War and Peace and Anna Karenina so if I were you I’d read those first, but you do you of course.
I just feel like MonteChristo is aimed at teenagers and young adults whereas the Tolstoy novels are for adults.
>I just feel like MonteChristo is aimed at teenagers and young adults whereas the Tolstoy novels are for adults.
I think it would be great to build me a habit, I can only read in 20-25 minute bursts right now, I wish to increase that to 1+ hours so that it's easier to read better books in the future. Tolstoy is probably the better writer like you mentioned.
What can you expect? A banger opening. A story in which there are A LOT of french names and if you aren't quick to learn them you'll have problems, consider finding some spoiler free character name guide. You'll also have to be prepared for a lot of french aristocrats being very polite and corteous to each other so you better like well-mannered rich people. Also marriage and teenage love. I really liked it but I won't be re-reading it any time soon, maybe when I'm so atrophied I can't hold an xbox controller.
Lonesome Dove
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversaries._From_the_Life_of_Gesine_Cresspahl
Atlas Shrugged
Mason & Dixon
Taylor Caldwell’s Dynasty of Death and Captains and the Kings
If you liked Richardson's Pamela, his Clarissa is even better. Though, to be accurate the title is: Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage
A Sorrow in Our Heart and That Dark and Bloody River by Allan Eckert
Some 2400 pages
Is this better than journey to the west?
Yea
why you guys like big chonkers so much? i had to work myself up for war and peace and moby-dick. i can't read stephen king because its just too much
How long did it take you to finish War and Peace, anon?
The work of today's greatest living philosopher, R. Scott Bakker. His main project runs some 4,688 pages, but then you have the standalone works, journal articles, etc. too.
You can find Crashspace online easily for free, which is a good appetizer.
>I already have War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables on my to read list. What else?
Remove War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Remove the two greatest novels ever written? You're a massive homosexual and a Black person.
God its all just tv shows to you people. You like it because you're told to.
sotweed factor
northwest passage
the days trilogy
>northwest passage
Based Kenneth Roberts poster.
ive recently read the first 400 pages, it got sorta tedious and i stopped.
dumas was paid per written line and its very obvious
Finished Dickens Little Dorrit recently, something like 800+ pages