I just don't believe anyone has read all of this. Ever
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>>25241028I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm saying no one has. Have you? No
>>25241018I did it, two years ago. It was ok. One day I will read it slower and paying more attention. Very lesbophobic.
>>25241035>Very lesbophobicNice, I’ll have to finish it some day. I’ve heard that some people often don’t read it in order… which is strange.
>>25241018I have. It took me about a year. Really is like living twice
>>25241050Is that something you can do?? Is it written not serially?
Rank the following by most worth the time investment to least:-This-War and Peace-The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire-Les Miserables-Plutarch's Lives-Moby Dick
I recently just finished reading all of Tolstoy and was either going to start on Proust or begin working through Dostoevsky. After reading through some of "Notes from Underground" I am not especially impressed, should I switch over to "Remembrance of Things Past"?
>>25241018Proust was a cheeky little bastard when he settled for the title of this colossal waste of time
>>25241421Yes… yes. Proust is a far more interesting, complex and “mature” writer than Dostoevsky in my opinion. I’m sure you already understand the crux of his work?>>25241286No. It’s like reading Ulysses and reading Telemachus, then Ithaca, then Hades, it’s all disordered and even if you’re reading it simply for the prose… it doesn’t really warrant skipping or going back and forth.
>>25241418Les Mis is by far the easiest one on that list. The writing style is simple but it’s just long.
>>25241418Moby DickPlutarch’s LivesDeclineWar and Peace (optional)
>>25241472What of the Frenchmen? Though yes I’d have Moby Dick at the top myself
>>25241418In order most worth the time to least worth>1. In Search of Lost TimeLike >>25241157 said, it's like living twice. I read it during the pandemic in about two weeks. I'd lock myself in my room, read ISOLT for 4 hours, wander to the kitchen and slurp cold soup, read ISOLT for another 2 or 3 hours, then when it got dark I'd drink three to eight beers and shoot at the cans with a pellet gun in my backyard. If you can make it through the second volume you can make it through the rest. I still think about a few different scenes constantly.>2. Moby-DickAstonishing that this book was published in 1851. It's like it fell out of the fucking sky. I reread it every year. "The Line" is still my favorite chapter -- it's only like a page and a half long, and all it is is this long description of the rope that's attached to the whalers' harpoons. Melville makes it into this fiery, rippling metaphor for life, death, fate, love, violence, etc. >3. War and PeaceJust finished this one actually. AK's better but not by much. I miss Pierre's conversations with Andrei though. The characters feel more real than actual people sometimes. Tolstoy's philosophical tracts at the end about history aren't as boring or difficult as people say they are, but they do derail the story a few times. It feels stupid to say "War and Peace is really fucking good," like no shit, it's War and Peace, but War and Peace is really fucking good.>4. Plutarch's LivesAFAIK the only complete English translation was made by a Victorian, which is an awful reading experience. So maybe I'm not the best source of opinion here. Interesting to read about the great classical men though, but more in a "huh, didn't know that, that's cool" sense, not really in an aesthetic sense. But maybe I'm just missing something here.>5. Les MiserablesRanks below Plutarch because Plutarch's more important, but really they're on the sameish tier. War and Peace but worse. Means it's still a great novel, and more fun to read than Plutarch, but you can safely skip it IMO>6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireI read the Modern Library abridged version which is still like 1400 pages or some shit. Yeah, yeah, the prose, whatever. There's much better, easier ways to read about the history of the Roman Empire. The writing's beautifully baroque but I was ready for it to end 200 pages in.
>>25241739cool. join my imaginary discord.
>>25241418Plutarch‘s Lives Les MiserablesMoby Dick Decline and FallThisWar and Peace
>>25241418>MD>ISOLT>power gap>W&P>les mis>lives (only read an abridged version tho)Haven't read decline and fall
>>25241286>Is that something you can do?No but since a lot of anons seem to believe that being /it/erate means to consoom as much of the canon as fast as possible a 1M+ words ordeal will eat too much into their allotted time away from this cesspool, so a weird belief about the recherche has started to take holdThat since volume 1 and 7 were written together (they were not) they can be read back to back or that you can just skip to the end and use whatever you learn from there to better understand the rest, and also skip everything that has been published after proust's deathAlso second half of volume 1 can sort of be read independently, so you see lots of publishers sell it separately to prop up sales and trick people into thinking they are getting into proust
>>25241018You are supposed to read it twice
>>25241018>In Search of Lost Time>Requires an immense loss of timeIronical.
>>25241018I did (that ed, too). It sucked. English tl or whatever, but it was the most bored I've ever been, and basically the only classic I had to actively force myself through.>>25241050>lesbophobicIt's where I learned that Gomorrah is the female lesby equivalent of the male's Sodom.
>>25241018Why are you insecure? I have read thrice.
>>25241418>dick>plutarch>war and peace>gibbon>les mis>lost timeImo. I've read them all (apart from some of the lives).
>>25241418>Moby-Dick Really? I read it in a week. The book is not even a big time investment, it's 700 something pages.
>>25241789Not that guy but go fuck yourself tranny.
It's not much longer than the Harry Potter series.
>>25242330Man I was here to make this joke. And call OP a retarded fucking faggot.
>>25241789imaginary discord?
>>25243959imaginary discord.
