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My favorite has to be the scatological Rabelais. Gargantua et Pantagruel has remained one of my all time favorite novels, despite its age. Although Flaubert, Baudelaire, Proust, and Verlaine all have...

I find Don Quijote to be a pleasurable, smooth read. If one were to read an earlier translation, that is a different story! I had read the Jaris translation that was published around 1740 and thought...

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Madame Bovary by Flaubert (reread)
Flaubert's...

happy bloomsday! Time to wrap up my third read of the book...I've been slacking!

First book that came to my mind, what a great read. It's one of my favorites!

Nabokov's Speak, Memory is a great autobiography!

Borges and Cervantes are two of my all time favorite writers!

I have to go with the bastard Smerdyakov as well. He is the catalyst in the novel, playing the Iago archetype and he even reminds me faintly of Hawthorne's Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter, in the...

The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
Malone Dies by Beckett
The Unnamable by Beckett
If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino
Invisible Cities by...

There is defintely a handful of prose and poetry I often turn to in times of anxiety as well. Mainly, Joyce's Ulysses (the comfort of knowing my banality is not the most intricate), Borges' short...

This is one of my gal's favorite reads. From what she tells me (we both saw the movie together and thought the same as you), the book is totally different, as in it alludes to everyone from Patti...

defintely go with Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, the funniest books I have ever read!

Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" delineates the struggle of an American mother during the 1950s, might be of interest!

The priest and the barber characters in Don Quixote find a book by Cervantes in the Don's library :lol:

no order:
1. Don Quijote-Cervantes
2. The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman-Sterne
3. Gargantua & Pantagruel-Rabelais
4. Finnegans Wake-Joyce
5. Gulliver's Travels-Swift

of course...

Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (reread)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (reread)
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
I also read the first part of Don...

Go for it! Gravity's Rainbow is a great book. It contains probably the most hilariously disturbing scene I have ever read in a book. I'll agree to some extent on the idea of Pynchon as a continution...

a bit of a paraphrase from the first part of Don Quixote:
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."

The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Pale Fire by Vladimir
David Copperfield by...

Doktor Faustus by Mann
The Decameron by Boccaccio
Moll Flanders by Defoe
Essay on Man and other poems by Pope
Buddenbrooks by Mann
Between the Acts by Woolf
JR by Gaddis
Sodome et Gomorrhe par...

Woolf is certainly one of my favorite writers. My favorite Woolf novel has to be The Waves. Anyone who is a fan of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse should consider it. My least favorite novel by...

I don't think reader's goals are set too high. More than likely, I'll be reading Sterne while reading a writer like Mann or Borges, perhaps even reading three or four books at once. With that said...

I'm going to concentrate on more reads, writing & annotating these rereads.

As for first reads go, here a brief list:

JR by William Gaddis
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry...

Has anyone read Joseph and His Brothers? I am considering reading it.

It is one of my favorite pieces of literature! I very proud of my mother tongue producing such an important book, not due to its play in the formation of the novel, but due to its ontological...