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I'll try to keep my recommendations short :lol . How about...

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Crock of Gold by James Stephens
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Phantom of the Opera by...

Never heard of this either but i'm almost always reading something victorian anyway :lol . Currently reading the pennydreadful

Broad Arrow Jack by E. Harcourt Burrage (1866) a bit like kill...

Never mind i found it.

I have been trying to find Broad Arrow Jack by E. Harcourt Burrage (1866) for quite some time. It exists, its in the Public Domain and its even been digitized already.
I've seen it in eformats at...

I've read the first one its really good i will get to the others eventually. I don't think its particularly forgotten though, its fairly well known and respected as an alternate form of fantasy....

From 'Earth to the Moon' is the first volume of the tale but today usually includes both 'Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon' neither of which have any dogs. The tale is about two americans and...

Not a fan of short stories as a rule except Lovecraft but heres a couple i quite liked, The Last Tram by Nedim Gürsel and A Sense Of Reality by Graham Greene.

I didn't that much of Scoop but Vile Bodies is good. Wodehouse is objectively very funny but i've found his style doesn't quite suit my personal taste.

Some mentioned Nightmare Abbey by Peacock,...

Frankly i never found anything of interest in Dr. Jekyll. Frankenstein is probably the most mature and has the most to say but i enjoy Dracula the most, its wonderful sort of found footage vibe and...

What the hell kind of question is that? :confused: . Enjoyment is self explanatory, if i enjoyed it then it was enjoyable. And i know whether i enjoyed it or not because i'm a human being and knowing...

I think they're very different things which i run in parallel but try to keep as separate as possible. I absolutely hate the idea of active analysis. I spent every english class at school trying not...

The Faerie Queene

Book II, Canto VII
" The wanton Maidens him espying, stood
Gazing a while at his unwonted guise;
Then th'one her selfe low ducked in the flood,
Abasht, that her a...

I really liked We by Zeygeny Zamyatin not sure what translator it was.

Mess Mend, Yankees In Petrograd by Marietta Shaginyan is also on my to-do list.

I have a sensitive spot when it comes to domination especially involving brainwashing so a couple i found strangely disturbing were
The Magician by Somerset Maugham
The Beetle by Richard Marsh,...

I can't stand surrealism, and i'm including 'Alice in Wonderland' in that category :lol. I tried the 'Exploits of Dr. Faustroll', painful experience. Also 'Impressions of Africa' which i think was...

I guess the title of this book must have been taken from the Jorge Luis Borges short story of the same name.

You probably misheard, reading non-fiction can't possibly do you any good, you want non-fiction watch television documentaries. Reading is only of use if its fiction.
Non-fiction is just facts, or...

Are we saying every example of a villain who is foreign is therefore specifically exploiting our fears of foreigners? Or are we supposed to have some sort of proof to back up the claim that...

I don't think its quite as bad as Don Quixote, the entire second vol of Quixote seem pretty pointless except for the end. The only real slog i had in Gargantua was Book 3, its one long joke about the...

Also maybe Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire is pretty bleak.

I recently read Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas, it's a Keroauc/Lovecraft pastiche but not played for laughs it can be pretty ugly i think. William Burroughs and Ginsberg are in it and the beatnik...

Amazon might depending on what sort of mood its in, its hit or miss. Find the book you want on amazon and copy the unique number in the address bar (you have a better, but not certain chance of this...

'he wasn't the most literary of authors!!!' wow :mad2: . Pratchett is practically shakespeare compared to most other authors today. I'd be more upset if not for the Alzheimer's which was slowly...

I'm not sure he actually kills the guy maybe he just split his skull open you'd have to read the rest to see if the guy is referenced again.
I'm going to assume he just really injured the guy, but...

I've read that one, i got a copy from https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/cyrano_de_bergerac/ so not sure how good the translation was or anything.
This is what i wrote about it on goodreads and my...