If you want to read forever, the Wandering Inn is a good series.
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Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a fuking work of art and I'm afraid I will never find something this good.
Has he put out any updates on the last book? Big reason why I haven't read it yet.
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Two favorites that I reread several times in my teens/twenties/thirties that I was recently thinking about:
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"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn
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"At the sign of the naked waiter" by Amy Herrick
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek is my number one. Second place is a tie between Women and Men by Joseph McElroy and The Tunnel by William H. Gass.
Whoa haven't heard of any of these before, thanks for the fine literary recs.
If you like horror/psychological stuff, I recommend House of Leaves. It's kind of a gimmicky book in that its style changes a lot and the story is all over the place (literally), but I kind of enjoy how it feels like you're skimming and ripping out newspaper clippings like a madman and stapling them to the diary of a semi-deranged burnout drug addict with actual brain damage.
Certainly an experience.
Today, I would say Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. I don't really do hard rankings, though. Tomorrow it might be Pride & Prejudice or Persuasion.
Either way, y'all, do yourselves a favour and at least try Jane Austen once. She's often put in a corner with corny romance novels but I mostly love them, because she's snarky as hell and her characterizations are astonishingly timeless. Sure, there is romance in the novels and I definitely enjoy it, but maybe the following quotes taken from some final chapters give you an indication of the general tone:
*** and *** were married, the bells rang and everybody smiled
The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade.
Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, ever so imprudent or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
I'm a big fan of Ken Follett's historical novels, and although I find the Century trilogy kinda jarring (it's very obvious the author is a social democrat who just doesn't like communism) his Kingsbridge series was absolutely awesome.
Kingsbridge is a fictional town in England, with the books in the series each following several characters throughout their life in a certain time period. First book was 1100s, then 1300s, 1500s, 1700s and a prequel around 998.
Also the first book was filmed into a series called Pillars of the Earth.