Hey /lit/ I started getting into reading a few months ago, so far I've loved Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, and The Trial, any suggestions?
Gravity's Rainbow
Zettel's Traum
2666
Ulysses
JR
Underworld
Women & Men
War & Peace
>>8644313
Thanks man, I'll be sure to check em out
>>8644340
he is shitting on you
>>8644340
Don't. Sorry to spoil the meme, but those are all infamously hard books. Read The Stranger or Siddhartha.
>>8644374
2666 hard? What´s particularly hard about that book besides maybe being a little too long? I read it without any difficulties
I recommend the following.
>>8644390
Dense intertextuality coupled with dense language generally - reading classics and simpler books which precede the postmodern books on that list provides the technical skills required to parse meaning both in terms of basic sentiment and subtle themes approached by way of allusion
>>8644390
They're difficult for different reasons. War and Peace is very long basically (and also maybe a large cast of characters to keep track of, with multiple different names as well). Ulysses has some chapters in a rather impenetrable stream-of-consciousness style (the last chapter is 40 pages and just two machine-gun sentences). JR is all dialogue, and Gaddis does not help the reader in terms of who says what.
>>8644383
How old are you?
>>8644402
how long have you been practicing that sentence, and how long have you been waiting to use it
>>8644425
I have a sort of bad habit of getting wordy very quickly; I'm also pretty tired which seemingly exacerbates the tendency