Do you guys ever feel indecisive about which book to read next

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's The Tempest
Albert Camus' The Stranger
Jean Cocteau's Les Enfant Terribles
Las Casas' Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

I just want to read something very short after a long 1332 page book.

infinite jest
2666
cloud atlas
the idiot
suttree

i wish to have a book that'll keep me busy for the next few months and that i can obsess over every little detail.

>>9430661
the tempest imo. shakespeare's comedy feels dated imo unless if it's performed on stage. the word play is better expressed through speech and a lot of his slapstick humour is better conveyed visually, so the comedy of errors wouldn't be for me t b h. not read the others except the stranger and imo it's just OK

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
Confessions, St Augustine
Mrs Dalloway, Woolf
At Swim-Two-Birds, O'Brien
Brighton Rock, Greene

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>>9430676
2666

Brief History of Seven Killings
Autobiography of Malcolm X
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Sound of Waves
Lysistrata

Just finishing Blood meridian

Crime and Punishment
Restaurant and the end of the Galaxy
Superintelligence - Bostrom(non fiction)
Autobiography of Malcolm X

>>9430692
Woah dude WHAT THE FUCK. hivemind. Guess we're reading malcolm

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>>9430685
Cuckoos nest.

>>9430650
I'm Travelling Alone - Samuel Bjork
My Struggle: A Death in the Family - Knausgaard
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Nausea - Sartre

>>9430708
Kek alrighty then

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>>9430661
The Tempest, definitely. Les Enfants Terribles is literal rich white girl-core. Just see the Melville film instead, it's a fantastic adaptation. Cocteau was a better director than an author anyway.

>>9430676
2666 is dense, definitely worth the effort. Infinite Jest is a lot more accessible than people give it credit for, but the formatting is a pain (flipping between the back pages and the main novel for the notes is not a good experience). Worth reading eventually but not necessarily if you want a challenge.

>>9430685
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest is an essential, but Confessions is cool if you're curious about theology, which you must be really if you own a copy.

>>9430692
>>9430698
ye just read malcolm x

>>9430718
Knausgaard, but if after 20 pages you hate his pacing and tone, go for A Clockwork Orange.

Some books I own but haven't read yet:

Dead Souls, by Gogol
The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov
East of Eden, by Steinbeck
The Counterfeiters, by Gide
Dandelion Wine, by Bradbury

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Classic door-stopper meme quintology:

DON QUIXOTE
WAR & PEACE
LES MISERABLES
ULYSSES
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Choose the ONE

hi, veekyforums

>>9430740
Dude with a stack that dense the choice should come down to your tastes atm and not a random anon.

Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow
Inherent Vice
Bleeding Edge
Against the Day

I gots me a craving for that there Pynchon

>>9430851
Mason & Dixon

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Master and Margarita
Dr Zhivago
Demons/The Possessed

>>9430872
zara 100%
i dont know the rest of those desu

>>9430740
War and Peace

or The Brothers Karamazov

If you bulk buy massive doorstoppers like that you will never read them all.

Dracula
Moby Dick
The Hunchback of Notredame
The Whisperer in Darkness
The King in Yellow

Which one should I focus on? Im in the process of reading all of them.

Atomised
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Gravity's Rainbow (second time)
Adan Buenosayres
The King James Bible
Ovid's Metamorphoses (prose)
Dune
Edgar Allan Poe's complete short stories
Crime and Punishment

>>9430955
Moby Dick is amazing, please read that first. Dracula is good but less about classic spooks and more about a loyal group of friends faced with a crisis. It surprised me how much Dracula was about friendship.

>>9430661
tempest

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>>9430740
Ulysses but make sure you've read Homer's Odyssey and Macbeth beforehand

Infinite Jest (had to google the ending)
Hamlet (have yet to finish)
Don Quixote (have yet to finish)
2666 (have yet to start)

sister carrie
crime and punishment
alice munro collection i forget the name of
absalom absalom
beloved

>>9430685
cuckoo

>>9430740
quixote

>>9430851
against the day

>>9430955
moby dick

>>9430661
Stranger
>>9430676
The Idiot
>>9430685
Confessions
>>9430692
Dunces
>>9430698
C&P
>>9430718
Nausea
>>9430735
M&M's like my favorite book
>>9430740
Brothers K, used to be my favorite
>>9430851
M&D
>>9430872
M&M
>>9430955
MD
>>9431014
DQ

Okay do me now guyz

Winesburg, Ohio
The Nigger of the Narcissus
The Fountainhead
Swann's way (If I read this one is it necessary to read the rest?)
A Farewell to Arms

>>9432325
Winesburg is great. I believe Anderson was a big influence on Hemingway so it would make sense to read it before AFTA.

>>9432325
A farewell to arms

>>9431039
Crime and Punishment

>>9431014
Don Quixote

>>9430957
Crime and punishment

Do me, anons:
The Waves
Gogol's stories
Spring Torrents
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The unnamable

>>9430735
do Gogol first.

>>9432407
I'd say go for Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time if you haven't already. Russia's romanticism too often gets overshadowed by the realist authors.

Ok, do me now:

Dubliners
The Trial
Ibsen's Nora
Knut Hamsun Hunger
The Stranger

>>9432443
Already read "A Hero of our time", what should I go for from the 5 books I've listed?

>>9430650
reading six four, portnoys complaint, white noise, and don quixote right now.

when i finish at least 2 of them, im thinking
>the beach
>been down so long
>mao II
>the arcades project
or
>american architecture book
reading my new edition tyson book on critical theory no matter what but i can juggle that with another

>>9432443
Hunger

Odyssey
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Hillbilly Elegy
L'Étranger
The Room - Selby