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>>9280231
How good is Finnegans Wak? Sounds pretty cool

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I posted this pic in a thread a few days ago, but my reading pile is mostly the same. I started reading A Passage to India, and a gypsy woman stole Sons and Lovers.

>>9280231
You should read V.

>>9280719
How much did that cost? They look new.

>>9280719
Where did you get those hardbacks? My college library is full of them, always thought they had a nice aesthetic.

>>9280231
You were given most of that? Damn, lucky asshole.

>>9280914
Not the guy you're quoting but those are everyman's library. They're pretty easy to find at any bookstore.

>>9280231
I don't have a good phone really to take a picture. Though once I'm done reading Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads", I've got either of the following;

>Hyperion.
>Gravity's Rainbow.
>Infinite Jest (though I'll probably read that far later than the others).
>The Brothers Karamazov (same case as IJ).
>Romanovs.
>Vanity Fair.

Got loads of other books on my kindle though I want to get through some physical copies first. I'll admit I've only been on /lit/ for a couple of months. Been mostly reading lighter stuff (Slaughterhouse-5, Third Policeman, Blood Meridian etc.) so my knowledge of what would work best atm is not too great. Whilst I'm on the subject, how do you rate a book on Goodreads? Do you rate it based on how much you enjoyed the plot and character interaction/development or do you rate it objectively based on literary devices used, writing style etc.?

>>9280231

Why do you have two editions of Crying Lot? I'd say read 100 Year of Solitude or Infinite Jest but I recommend taking Infinite Jest at a brisk pace. I wouldn't recommend trying to read it all at once or something like that, there's a lot of information to take in when it comes to establishing how the world came to be.

>>9280719

Great Expectations or Portrait are top choices.

>>9280992

Hyperion first.

Same case as the last anon, don't have a phone but this is what I have on my desk:
Existentialism is Humanism-Sartre
Rosshalde-Hesse
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire-Polybius
Vile Bodies-Evelyn Waugh
White Noise-Don Delilo
Blood Meridian-Cormac Mccarthy
Speedboat-Adler

>>9281016

And I forgot The Men Who Stare at Goats

>>9280719
JOYCE

My backlog

The Trial
Oblomov
Revolutionary Road
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Warlock

>>9281122

Read The Trial first. You can finish it in like two and a half hours.

>>9280869
They are new. Considering l live in a non-Anglo country, l doubt have found used DeLillo or Kerouac books. The hardbacks were pretty pricy, but l love Everyman's, so l couldn't resist. All in all, l'd say they cost about 150 Euro dollars.

>>9280914
Bookdepository is your friend, friend.

>>9281016
>>9281039
Yup, Portrait is up next; l need to read it by Monday for class. Hopefully it's not as dense ad /lit/ has made me believe.

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What should I read first?

The Life of Pi and Le Count

The extreme thickness of the later aside, what is the density like? Is it a breeze going page to page, or is the reading level high for someone with an decent but modest vocabulary?