The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, because Infinite Jest has made me want more, and it was used.
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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, because Infinite Jest has made me want more, and it was used.
What Maisie Knew (Henry James)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carré)
Life & Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians (J. M. Coetzee)
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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Currently reading: Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray
Was in Dublin this weekend and I wanted something local but I wasn't up for Ulysses.
So far, so good.
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
...Because I haven't read enough Pynchon.
Parallel Stories by Peter Nadas...Because I'm addicted to gigantic books.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges...Because Borges.
how's the pale king?
Parallel Stories was incredible... And if you end up liking it as much as I did, Nadás' earlier work Book of Memories is equally good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desolation
Love the choices there. Pynchon is my favourite English language writer by far. Against the Day might be my favourite work of his in terms of pure enjoyment, though I prefer GR to it for several other reasons.
Might I recommend László Krasznahorkai's novels to you if you haven't read them yet. Not so long, but so perfectly labyrinthine and desolate. As a character says in War and War, "reality examined to the point of madness..." Brilliant. I think I reviewed that one in the book review section here and The Melancholy of Resistance is even better.
The last book I bought was this summer.
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. I wanted to read more of her books.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Because I was feeling sorrowful and I've been meaning to read the book for years.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Because I just fancied it. It'll be my first Defoe too.
Moby Dick. A must read to any Classics lover!
For a philosophy course, Hobbe's Leviathan.
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. About 25 pages in.
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Originally Posted by Darcy88
Great! It's one of my all-time favorites. And if you want to read about an interesting life-story for a novel (such as it's composition, publication, and reception), then check it out. When Werther was published, it rocked Germany.
In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
Inside Mr Enderby (Anthony Burgess)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
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Currently reading: THE THIRD MAN and THE FALLEN IDOL (Graham Greene)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, because I found the premise intriguing.