From this list, what should I read next?
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I just finished Lolita , and before that My Struggle Vol. 1. Loved both, in different ways, equally.
Now, from the following list, which book do you recommend that I should read next?
(Multiple selections totally ok)
1. My Struggle, Vol. 2. Knausgaard
2. Blood Meridian. McCarthy
3. Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon
4. Moby Dick. Melville
5. Snuff. Pelevin
6. Mythology. Hamilton (Prelude to The Greeks)
7. The Pale King. Wallace
8. Finnegans Wake. Joyce
9. War and Peace. Tolstoy
10. The Prague Cemetery. Eco
11. The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway
12. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics). Gibbon
Thanks in advance!
I dunno, Moby Dick?
>>7587767
>fallling for this many memes
Blood Meridian
Skip Finnegan's Wake
>>7587803
I know, I know...
Any other book that you'd like to recommend is ok too, even if it's not on the list.
My struggle volume 2
>>7587798
Thanks!
What would be your second pick?
>>7587824
As above, any second picks?
Take Finnegans Wake off your list until you know enough about literature not to come running to /lit/ to make your reading decisions for you. Also, you're going to end up reading all of those anyway, what order you do it in matters less. Time spent waiting for a consensus of underread teenagers with overinflated egos to form could be better spent making a start on one of those 11 (excl. FW).
>>7587886
Thanks for that.
I kinda thought about that, regarding FW, but I wanted to read it at least once from a totally ignorant position to see what it appeared to be, and then to re-read it once I was "ready" for it.
(I have always enjoyed reading a paper that is a bit too advanced for me, and then reading it again once more at a time when it makes total sense)
>>7587916
FW is barely comprehansible really. read as much as the first paragraph and you will understand what's it about.
