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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I did not like Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov. While I liked Hyperion by Dan Simmons, I really disliked Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that it was based on.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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How dare you. Gatsby is possibly the finest novel ever written. IMO.
Yeah, Lolita. I don't get it. They say the prose is amazing. Seemed nothing special to me. Perhaps I should re-read it. Naked Lunch was...meh, weird. Junkie is better (i.e. not total crud).