Starting with easy one
>>7471214
claiming Dusty before anyone else
Houellebecq
Krasznahorkai
>'rating' art
>>>/rogerebert.com/
Two thumbs down OP.
Joyce nailed it on Ulysses and Dubliners.
>>7471334
>no mention of APOTAYM
>>7471340
It's good, but not of the same calibre I feel. It has it's absolutely perfect moments, but they get lost in a lot of the bits that, while still great, aren't as fucking perfect as the end of chapter 4 for example.
The second chapter and the first half of the last chapter come to mind.
Norman Maclean wrote only two books. They were both 10/10
>>7471214
This nigga along with Gass, Hawkes, and McElroy.
William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, The Sound and Fury, Absalom, Absalom!)
Herman Melville (Moby-Dick, Billy Budd)
Anthony Burgess (Earthly Powers, ABBA ABBA)
James Joyce (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake)
Renata Adler (Speedboat, Pitch Dark)
Tom Stoppard (Ronsencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead, Arcadia)
>This Side of Paradise
>Tender is the Night
>The Great Gatsby
>The Last Tycoon (unfinished)
The Beautiful and Damned seemed hurried in the wake of This Side of Paradises popularity. The rest were fucking incredible.
>Fight Club
>Invisible Monsters
my mom
Nabokov
>>7471214
>Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
>Orwell
1984
Animal Farm
>Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
>Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
>Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
>Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
>>7471435
>>Orwell
>1984
>Animal Farm
Brief interviews and Girl
>>7471449
And right after he fucked a whore too.
>>7471435
>A Christmas Carol
I can understand the rest, but how the hell is something as shallow as this be a 10/10? Maybe it's just because of my longstanding hatred of all things Dickens, but the only reason I can see for liking that book is that it's iconic.
>Bolano
2666
Savage Detectives
>Saramago
Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Blindness
>Bellow
Deans DecemberAugie March is probably even better but I havent read it yet
Herzog
Arguably up to 5 10/10s.
>>7471457
awww yeah, that made it so sick. You can almost feel him coming to grips with how long eternity is. It reminds me of myself if church when I was a little kid. Or waiting to confess my sins in fifth grade, "D-do I tell him I jerked off? It's a sin I have to..."
And I did. I always said "Pleasured myself" because that sounded more innocent.
>>7471449
Yeah, Irish Catholicism is about the most guilt based religion ever envisioned. I was still getting some of that (albeit considerably toned down) when I was in a catholic school like 8 years ago. Religion is still very much mixed with schooling in Ireland
>>7471485
Im studying at Trinity for the year and it definitely comes up. In my religion class, people talk about how the Church of Ireland sustains itself to like a community. Organized religion is definitely going down the tubes in America though.
>>7471481
meanwhile the priest is jerking off to thinking of little jimmy touching himself.
>Italo Calvino
If on a winter's night a traveller
Invisible Cities
>>7471520
steppenwolf
demian
>>7471435
> A Farewell to Arms
Really? I thought it pretty weak compared to The Sun Also Rises
>>7471528
Damn man, good for you. Im hoping to get my masters here to, its such a good school. And Im studying English, of course. Im just here for the year. I took a trip out to where my ancestors lived some hundred or something years ago, it was surreal. There was a church at the end of the road, and I could picture everyone waking to the sunrise, then dressing up and walking down the road to the sound of churchbells.
>>7471580
Ah cool man, what year are you in actually? I know people in the 3rd and 4th year English classes. We probably have mutual friends.
>>7471571
I've got the complete opposite opinion. The style of FWTA stood out to me more, and was a bit more interesting.
>>7471614
Yeah Im a third year, we definitely do.
>>7471471
>Bellow
Have you read A Theft? That's the only Bellow I've read and I was really not into it.
>>7471651
I haven't, Ive only read Herzog, Deans December, and More Die of Heartbreak, and that little novella he wrote...the bellarosa connection! Which was alright.
I've never even heard of the theft, I definitely recommend his more famous stuff though, it has an effortlessness about it that's untouchable.
>>7471228
You watch Ellen too?
>Hemmingway
>>7471413
>Invisible Monsters
>not Rant
Come on guy.
This champ right here.
>>7471376
>McElroy
>good
Kek
Tolstoy hasn't been mentioned yet?
>mfw this wasn't posted yet
>>7471376
Stop pushing these four. It's like you're trying to replace our already, firmly established, meme trilogy, even as most of us haven't finished it.
>Implying you weren't sobbing at the end of Notre Dame
>>7472224
But anon, that author hasn't even created one book that's a 10/10, let alone two.
>>7471449
Portrait is maybe the best novel ever, there is an arresting passage on almost every single page.
>>7472224
Lol I thought Harper Lee was a man.
The things you learn everyday.
>>7472332
except that stephen is a whiny and insufferable cunt. Other than that yea
>>7471809
>Rant
>not Haunted
come on guy.
>>7472562
With protagonists who are so sensitive to the world, at least somewhat Byronic, like Stephen... I find that unless people can relate on some level, they come off as really deranged and whiny. Whenever I teach the romantics, hell, some of Joyce as well, it's hard to impress the profound Romantic perception into words.
>>7471435
I love Hugo, but fuck the Cossette passages.
>>7471435
0/10 no one can pleb this hard
Surprised no one's mentioned Tolkien yet.
And for something more contemporary I'll go with Neil Gaiman; don't care what you guys say, that man knows how to put a solid story together (90% of the time...)
