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Worthy "Classic" Novels
Vuk:
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--- Quote from: Vuk on 22 Sep 2010, 22:41 ---currently trying to make it through War and Peace. Book is so long, but I feel like it will be worth it.
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Next you should give Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman a go, if you can face up to another Russian epic. It's sort of a 20th-century World War II version of War and Peace.
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That sounds fucking awesome, actually. I really want to read an Andrei Platonov novel, ever since I read short stories of his in one of my classes last year, so if anyone can lead me in the right direction, it'd be much appreciated.
LeeC:
Ugetsu directed by Kenji Mizoguchi is a really good movie and a classic and is based off of japanese folk tales from back in the warring states period, had to watch it for a class and it was surprisingly good. kind of like pulp fiction except with peasants in japan in the late 1400s early 1500s.
rynne:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 23 Sep 2010, 12:06 ---oh god, I'm trying to read Gravity's Rainbow right now and it is extremely slow going. It's so hard to follow, sometimes I have to read whole pages again just to remember what character is being dealt with.
I almost never give up on a book, but I'm seroiusly considering it with this one.
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Mason & Dixon is the only long Pynchon novel I've gotten through on the first try. I think that's 'cause 1) you mostly only have to keep track of the two titular characters and 2) it's fucking hilarious. It has Ben Franklin acting like a rock star (complete with groupies), George Washington offering the boys a joint, Popeye the Sailor residing in a wilderness tavern, frequent and excessive visits to coffee houses, etc., etc., etc.
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OH FUCK YES.
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