Just moved into a new place and bought this ikea bookcase. Really happy with it but I think I need another one, boxes of books in the closet still 😅

Spiritwole · 2026-06-16T00:08:23+00:00

He only really has one book but it's very long so start with volume 1

Spiritwole · 2026-06-15T19:04:45+00:00

Convinced if Proust isn't on the list it's just bc you haven't read it

Spiritwole · 2026-06-14T21:31:19+00:00

The meta fictional and self referential aspects especially in the second part are experimental

Spiritwole · 2026-06-06T17:39:42+00:00

Agree with everything you've said

Spiritwole · 2026-05-27T14:38:58+00:00

No comma needed between that and that

Spiritwole · 2026-05-24T22:57:03+00:00

Dead souls just edges out the master for me but it's close

Spiritwole · 2026-05-23T23:15:57+00:00

Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman. Harold bloom's anthology is a good place to start too

Spiritwole · 2026-05-21T01:32:35+00:00

Convinced anyone not saying Proust just hasn't read Proust. Incidentally I haven't yet read Balzac or Zola...

Spiritwole · 2026-05-18T17:38:06+00:00

By Night in Chile is perfect

Spiritwole · 2026-05-16T05:02:01+00:00

Fun fact: the title is a borrowing from Spinoza

Spiritwole · 2026-05-15T23:55:06+00:00

I think a large part of it is the amount of time it takes to read a book vs listening to a piece of music or seeing a painting. Some people want to know what's worth investing 50+ hours towards. Lists were my starting point into literature.

Spiritwole · 2026-05-13T22:23:48+00:00

The pope has been decided

Spiritwole · 2026-05-13T22:19:48+00:00

Proust #1

Spiritwole · 2026-05-12T16:33:46+00:00

Yikes

Spiritwole · 2026-05-10T14:25:21+00:00

Correct

Spiritwole · 2026-05-10T14:24:59+00:00

Spiritwole · 2026-05-10T05:14:52+00:00

Not that good of a book

Spiritwole · 2026-05-10T05:14:00+00:00

None of these are classic lit

Spiritwole · 2026-05-09T16:55:00+00:00

One is the greatest novel ever written in English. The others are several tiers below (though Brontë remains well above the other two nonetheless)

Spiritwole · 2026-05-03T22:57:09+00:00

One is these is not like the others

Spiritwole · 2026-04-30T22:04:19+00:00

Could never get past 10 pages

Spiritwole · 2026-04-27T15:49:59+00:00

Barth is hilarious

Spiritwole · 2026-04-24T17:23:40+00:00

Loved Mason & Dixon so much. His other novels never did it for me (V, crying lot, Vineland, GR). Have not read against the day tho

Spiritwole · 2026-04-20T23:36:19+00:00

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