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Any good easy to read post-modern (or something that feels smart and actual) English novel to bring with me on vacation? (sort of like Joyce but comfy). Please no Infinite Jest, it seems too long for a week vacation in which I'll mostly socialise and read max 2 hours a day.
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>PoMo
>comfy
Pick one.
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>>9339692
william gaddis
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I'd suggest Daniel Handler's adverbs as a rare example of something "postmodern" as well as"comfy".
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maybe some virginia woolf? the waves is pretty short and easy on modernism compared to joyce
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>>9339692
I haven't read it but I've read her other stuff:
The Quick and The Dead by Joy Williams
or something I have read:
Mao II
}both by Don DeLillo
Deadzone
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>>9339692
Gravity's Rainbow is super comfy.
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>>9339692
If on a winters night a traveler by Italo Calvino
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
White Noise by Don DeLillo
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It can be... Do you not think my picks, for example, are comfy?
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>The Waves
>easy
wew. I'd say Orlando is the easiest of Woolf's major novels. None of them are light reading though.
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