Like I’m going to be living alone for a while and don’t really have tv, wanna take some time to read something life enriching. I don’t mean any self-help books though, unless it’s more nonfiction than self-help, but yeah would love some books which are big , hopefully around 1000 or 1000 pages plus, dense and would keep me busy for a while. So, far on the list is gravity’s rainbow, anatomy of melancholy, Septology, Ulysses. And I know not all of them are supposed to be that helpful in regards to life, but yeah love reading fiction. So, recommend some big and dense books that are worth reading, non-fiction books are especially welcome.
by Few_Presentation_408
1 Comment
If you want encyclopedic novels, here is the accepted list formulated by Edward Mendelson:
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Five Books of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Faust by Goethe
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Ulysses by James Joyce
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Here is a list of potentially encyclopedic novels that I’ve come across:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2666 by Roberto Bolano
EIMI by ee cummings
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Mahabharata
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
JR by William Gaddis
If you just want a long-ass book to keep you occupied for a while:
IT by Stephen King
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Underworld by Don Dellilo
Middlemarch by George Elliot