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Triceratopsoil 
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 Posted: October 28 2011 at 21:13 |
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I recently read The Sun Also Rises. I like it, but most people might find that not enough goes on
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Alitare
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:35 |
I also have yet to read The Sun Also Rises. I tried digging into Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, but got burned real quick. I'm afraid to try Dickens, and even Hardy, I'm sceptical over.
I really liked Kafka's The Trial, I just wish he'd been given more time to finish up the unintentional messiness of it. I may get The Castle, sometime. But JD Salinger is totally lost on me. I've read both Nine Stories and Catcher - I remain utterly unimpressed.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:26 |
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Austin's bluffing, anyway, he can't read. But I like Hemingway
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Andy Webb
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:22 |
 Horizons wrote:
Hemingway |
*vomits*
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Alitare
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:08 |
Triceratopsoil wrote:
One thing I'd say is that McCarthy's pony books aren't very interesting, you're better off with his murdering people books.
I'd probably go for the Faulkner or Hemingway, but I haven't read either of those works in your poll.
I also recommend to you and everybody else Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
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I kinda got scared off of Faulkner. I read As I Lay Dying, but it bored me. Okay, here's 20 pages about building the damn coffin or baking pies to sell at market, or getting a good deal on eggs. Okay, here's 50 pages about travelling to town with the neighbours, slopping the pigs, maintaining the farmstead, cooking breakfast, and talking about relatives. Okay, here's 50 more pages about chickens and being upset but not telling anybody, oh...now we switch to somebody else.
I respect him for what he was trying to do, but I couldn't connect with any of the characters, especially not Addie or those in direct grieving of her. Hey, I'm picky.
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Vompatti
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:05 |
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^ omg k
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Alitare
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:04 |
^Love the drama in that one. Seuss could keep you on the edglewhoo of your seatakin. What a whapsipsnipperff of a social-comment-dairy.
@Vompatti: I read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, but it didn't light a fire in me for some reason. The main character was really sweet, but then there were all these other people slowing things down.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 20:03 |
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One thing I'd say is that McCarthy's pony books aren't very interesting, you're better off with his murdering people books.
I'd probably go for the Faulkner or Hemingway, but I haven't read either of those works in your poll.
I also recommend to you and everybody else Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
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A Person
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 19:54 |
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Horton Hears a Who
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Any Colour You Like
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 19:54 |
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Pale Fire, because it's on my list.
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Horizons
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 19:53 |
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Hemingway
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Vompatti
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 19:51 |
I haven't read any of these. 
You should read Carson McCullers.
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Alitare
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Posted: October 28 2011 at 19:46 |
Hit me with what you think is best.
Seriously, beat me over the face with it.
Any 'other' suggestions will go into my 'to think about buying' list. The other 14 are books I currently own.
I love sad stuff that doesn't drag on forever. I like sad stuff that hits your heart without forcing you to read hundreds of pages of inane descriptions or instances of 'rich folks being rich (also applicable: upper-middle class folks being well off)'. That last thing is what killed these following books for me. (ratings included)
Catcher in the Rye (5/10) The Great Gatsby (4/10) The Bell Jar (5/10)
So I didn't care too much for those books.
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