Big Books

luka

Well-known member
I think this is why we are beyond soul and sensation (woosh zoom squelch plop fizz) has replaced emotion as music's leading concern. Emotions aren't to be wallowed in but guarded against
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Clearly a book like "Gone Girl" isn't formally innovatory but I wonder if it's runaway success suggests that it tapped into something zeitgeisty? (I've not read it, which doesn't help me out here.)

Something more genuinely zeitgeisty than, say, Ian McEwan's strained and bookish attempts at writing novels about AI.

Yeah, but I mean it has to be good as well.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Although, to be fair to you Corpse, I do remember making the exact same argument about Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes.
 

catalog

Well-known member
ulysses please. but i wanna discuss only after i've read the whole thing.
guilt conversation seems to have moved on, so i'll discard my notes and won't bother with my my massive effort post.
 

luka

Well-known member
Big books I recommend

1. The Cantos.

2. Maximus Poems

3. Gravity's Rainbow

Just because it makes version happy if you slip a reference to it into your posts once in a while.

4. Das Kapital

I've never read this but it's probably fantastic

5. Phenomology of spirit

Not read this, probably really great

6 Proust

Not read Proust, but it might be good.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Plus:

Metamorphosis

The Aeneid

The Bible

The Arabian Nights

The Adventures of Augie March

Dance to the Music of Time

A Thousand Plateaux
 

luka

Well-known member
Plus:

Metamorphosis

The Aeneid

The Bible

The Arabian Nights

The Adventures of Augie March

Dance to the Music of Time

A Thousand Plateaux

metamorphosis as in Ovid not kafkas short story. Craner recommends you read the Golding translation
 

luka

Well-known member
Tristan Shandy, that's supposed to be good. You should read that.

Don Quixote. One I've actually read that.
 
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