Anonymous
11/29/2022 12:39
Subject: Challenging Fiction
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Anonymous
11/29/2022 12:32
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Anonymous wrote:Plus a thousand for the Hyperion Cantos.
Plus a thousand and one! So challenging, but so rewarding. Brilliant sci-fi.
Anonymous
11/29/2022 12:14
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Faulkner.
Couldn't get into him the first time I tried, but then it clicked.
Couldn't get into him the first time I tried, but then it clicked.
Anonymous
11/29/2022 11:46
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Edith grossman’s translation of Don Quixote
Anonymous
11/29/2022 11:44
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Cloud Atlas is probably the most challenging fiction I've ever read--but I thoroughly enjoyed it. (I didn't see the movie, not sure how that might affect the experience of reading the book.)
Infinite Jest was also challenging, and very rewarding. I know lots of people love to hate it, but I found it to be immersive and poignant and stunning.
Infinite Jest was also challenging, and very rewarding. I know lots of people love to hate it, but I found it to be immersive and poignant and stunning.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 15:29
Subject: Challenging Fiction
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Anonymous
11/19/2022 15:03
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Betty (but many content warnings)
Trust by hernan diaz
Trust by hernan diaz
Anonymous
11/19/2022 14:41
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Perhaps Babel would be a good fit?
Anonymous
11/19/2022 14:27
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Lymond Chronicles might be the best books I’ve ever read
Anonymous
11/19/2022 14:26
Subject: Challenging Fiction
The Overstory.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 12:17
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Second Hilary Mantel.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 12:11
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Hilary Mantels books are at that level to me. Especially To a Place of Greater Safety.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 10:59
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Plus a thousand for the Hyperion Cantos.
Anonymous
11/19/2022 07:46
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons — dense Keats and Chaucer inspired sci fi
Lymond Chronicles or House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett — historical fiction set in Europe in the 1400s
Possession by AS Byatt — dual story lines of modern academia and Romantic poets
Freedom and Necessary by Steven Burst and Emma Bull — spec fic about the Charist movement in the 1820s
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard — Romantic poetry, the second law of thermodynamics, academia, tortoises (play)
Sandman by Neil Gaimen — medications on the human condition through the lens of horror (graphic novel)
Lymond Chronicles or House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett — historical fiction set in Europe in the 1400s
Possession by AS Byatt — dual story lines of modern academia and Romantic poets
Freedom and Necessary by Steven Burst and Emma Bull — spec fic about the Charist movement in the 1820s
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard — Romantic poetry, the second law of thermodynamics, academia, tortoises (play)
Sandman by Neil Gaimen — medications on the human condition through the lens of horror (graphic novel)
Anonymous
11/19/2022 07:28
Subject: Challenging Fiction
Usually read history or biography
My few encounters with fiction have been mass-market murder and mayhem
Just finished Umbeto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and loved it!
Recomendations for fiction at that complexity level?
Any genre
My few encounters with fiction have been mass-market murder and mayhem
Just finished Umbeto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and loved it!
Recomendations for fiction at that complexity level?
Any genre