I mean, I have read all of the words in Ulysses with my own two eyes but it was a miserable experience that i didn't enjoy, nor could I tell you anything that happens, and the frequent having to stop and reread a sentence that's made up of gibberish isn't my cup of tea. That doesn't mean Joyce is without merit of course, I just feel like this list could use some diversification and having 3 James Joyce titles and like 5 Joseph Conrad titles... I just thought I could slide a few other titles on here. Pride and Prejudice & True Grit are my new inclusions in place of Finnegan's Wake and The Dubliners, and I may yet scrape out all the rest of the Conrad novels except 'Nostromo', and maybe even exclude some E.M. Forster & F. Scott Fitzgerald works for the sake of literary diversity, I.E. some more authors that aren't white dudes.
I'd hate to completely dismiss this list though, because All the King's Men is my favourite work of fiction ever, and I'd never have read it without it being on here!
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Date: 9 Dec 2018 07:19 (UTC)I'd hate to completely dismiss this list though, because All the King's Men is my favourite work of fiction ever, and I'd never have read it without it being on here!