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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > SHAMEFUL: The Greatest Books You've Never Read
 
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Captain Hotbutt
Aug 18, 2014

chernobyl kinsman posted:


Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon. It's just so long.

The Plague, Camus. I think I've pretended to have read this in conversation before but it was a lie.

Blindness, Saramago. Yeah, idk what's wrong with me either

Rebecca, du Maurier. I have no doubt that this is extremely my poo poo and I've read a lot of du Maurier otherwise but I just haven't gotten here yet.

Read The Plague because it is pretty rad and full of death and it's not long like Gravity's Rainbow and there are cool covers like this one:




I'm trying to decide:

Kim - Rudyard Kipling Just wanted something different than what I usually read. Heart of Darkness put me off of reading about white people being lovely and colonial but maybe this is worth it?

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite books ever but I hear this one is a super-tough, impenetrable nightmare read.

The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut I'm a little tired of Vonnegut but it's been on my shelf for so long now.

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Forgot I owned it because it slipped between two other books. Never really "got" the love for Hemingway even though I love most of his short stories.

The Mezzanine - Nicholas Baker I hear it's a postmodern classic but...I dunno...never got around it?

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Captain Hotbutt
Aug 18, 2014
 Looks like I'm reading The Sound and the Fury.

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