ITT: Books so far up their own ass they are impossible to enjoy

>>8817012
I enjoyed that book so I guess you are mistaken

my man

It would be better if the geryon association was dropped though, too weak to add anything

>>8817012

Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby-Dick
The Recognitions
In Search of Lost Time
Don Quixote
The Man Without Qualities

>>8817195
no take that back

Anything by Nabokov

>>8817197

No.

In fact I've thought of more books:

War & Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
Blood Meridian
Mason & Dixon
Underworld
The Magic Mountain
Anything by Henry James
and to prove that not only males give into this shit, The Golden Notebook and To the Lighthouse

>>8817012
That was fucking great.

Anne Carson is amazing

>>8817195
This, basically.

op outed as a pseud

carson is the best canadian poet alive today and one of the best poets working in the english language alive today.

>>8817204

Fucking end yourself.

>>8817301
>triggered pedo detected

>>8817064
>>8817215
>>8817278

>I am a philosopher of sandwiches
>HURR they are gay but also monsters or something I dont know durr

End yourselves

>>8817321
(You)

>>8817195
Only valid one on the list is IJ, and even then it's (a little) debatable

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>enjoying literature

>>8818692
>not enjoying literature
>>>/u/ndergrad

>>8817012
I don't really think it's much good but I don't see in what way it might be up its ass, would you explain

>>8817195
The Man Without Qualities? Really? I've been meaning to read it, read a few pages and it seemed interesting.

>>8817195
Don Quijote really doesn't belong with those.

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>>8817321
Who are you quoting?

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>>8817012

>>8817195

You have absolutely shit taste.

>>8817195
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