Capt Lunatic
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Feb 15, 2015 8:19:02 GMT -5
Anyways, for me, for books that I've actually finished: Shishkin's Maidenhair or Pynchon's V. Maidenhair was something else due to its unique format using a question/answer format for delivering 90% of the story as well as the story reading like a feverish daydream as answers become questions, questions become answers, reality and time kind of fall apart, and there are lots of narrative digressions that somehow get back on track...eventually. V. is self-explanatory. It's Pynchon. That means dense, long, encyclopedic sentences with off-the-wall references and situations that make you think "Wait, huh, did you just say that or did I read it wrong?" I read Inherent Vice several years ago. It's Pynchon's most accessible book, but everything you said still applies so I'll go with that. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 15, 2015 8:32:04 GMT -5
I consider Grant Morrison's work light reading. still couldn't tell you what the f*** was going on in The Filth, though.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Feb 15, 2015 8:41:35 GMT -5
Nabokov's Pale Fire
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 15, 2015 11:16:30 GMT -5
For a serious answer, Dante's Paradisio is a chore to get through. Inferno is pretty easy after the first couple chapters, Purgatorio has some bad spots but it's readable. Paradiso on the other hand is ridiculous and never understand what the hell Dante is blabbering about.
Apologies if that walks the Religion line a bit , but damn.
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riseofsetian1981
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Feb 15, 2015 14:07:54 GMT -5
I have to say for me personally it will be Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned."
"The Vampire Lestat" is truly an amazing book and my absolute favorite of the original Vampire Chronicles. Once I got to "Queen of the Damned" and got started, it became increasingly difficult for me to read and finish, just how detailed and how different the plot was I couldn't figure out what was going on. There were characters that didn't interest me or the plot at all in my opinion.
Once Lestat, Akasha, Louis, and Lestat's mother along with Marius came into the picture is when the story got better for me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 19:13:16 GMT -5
Naked Lunch due to being a scrambled mess. I can think of at least two things wrong with that title. To me... it's any Lord of the Rings book. I tried reading The Two Towers as my first and I just couldn't make it past Gandalf the White (at the freakin' beginning!), which sucks, because I think the stories are cool. |
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