Thread: Literary Highly Challenging Nominations • July 2013
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Old 07-03-2013, 02:02 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by sun surfer View Post
With my last nomination I'd like to nominate Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. I think it definitely qualifies as highly challenging and it was specifically mentioned as the principal reason that Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I'd love to reread Buddenbrooks; alas, I am out of nominations. And I ought to read Lucretius!

I'd be happy with any of the books named in this thread. Really, nominating and voting come down to whim and a soupçon of randomness. They all sound good.
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