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@mpls_bystander That’s alright. Maybe it isn’t for you.

@dontharrisme Recently tried to read The Magic Mountain and found it incredibly dull

Some novels I wish to reread/read under a different light at some point in future: 2666 Moby Dick The Magic Mountain Under The Volcano To The Lighthouse Anna Karenina Austerlitz Absalom, Absalom! Don Quixote Sula Pedro Paramo How about you folks?

@Drhr90 @JaycelAdkins Brilliant! I will try and get a copy of Grossman’s translation when I plan on rereading it :))

@dontharrisme @JaycelAdkins Correct assumption! As a huge fan of hers, I have been waiting for her translation to read this one again.

@Drhr90 @JaycelAdkins I am assuming it’s the one done by Edith Grossman

@dontharrisme @JaycelAdkins Just picked up the new translation of Don Quixote today.

Sat down to read and the lightbulb stopped working :/

@nr_wayne What a great list!

Beautiful. I’ll say these…: Against the Day A Naked Singularity The Recognitions 2666 The Death of Virgil Riddley Walker Ulysses The Runaway Soul Miss Macintosh, My Darling The Book of Disquiet Darconville’s Cat

@MichaelSevy What a gem of a novel

“How might a man reorder his conduct if he could be assured that the worth of a perception, a memory, a supposition, was enhanced rather than diminished by its being inexplicable to others?” Gerald Murnane- The Plains

@amanologue That’s incredible! A very gut churning section (the part about the crimes) is coming up but it’s important to get through that. The last section—about the obscure German writer—is some of the best fiction you will ever read.

@dontharrisme I am 500 pages into 2666.

@m48703ginger Timeless, devastating, beautiful

@dontharrisme Read Anna Karenina in college. Read it again as a 58 year old husband and father with grown children. Completely different novel.

@dontharrisme Ball knower

@AdamPCoulter @MichaelSevy @Dalkey_Archive Thanks a bunch! I know they are reissuing it. I live in Pakistan and shipping costs are through the roof. Maybe some time in the future y’know!

@dontharrisme @MichaelSevy New Tunnel edition coming out 4/7 from @Dalkey_Archive. You can preorder it from their website. I recently found a hard copy of the earlier edition, but ordered this new one too. It’s in color. dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-t…

@RoebertDonovan magnificent

@dontharrisme Though I have already read it twice, I want to re-read Ford Madox Ford's Tietjens tetralogy collected in one volume under the title 'Parade's End'.

@sung5000 I’d say stick with it at least for another quarter, and if it doesn’t strike a chord, then maybe it isn’t for you.

@dontharrisme i’m a quarter through magic mountain and loving it but also having a hard time coming back to it - if that makes sense at all

@Spineur1 Amazing!

@dontharrisme I have reread the magic mountain last year and moby dick 10 years before. Maybe the next one could be The man without quality and also The bone people (Keri Hulme).

@nephislothrop Couldn’t agree more. I’ve missed a fair few. The Brothers Karamazov and Inland (Gerald Murnane) also come to mind.

@dontharrisme Don Quixote is such a fun read. Moby Dick is special. To the Lighthouse beautiful. Honestly, Septology belongs on this list as does Ulysses.

@radiochog Brilliant - thank you 🙏🏾

@dontharrisme May I suggest the following novel sequences. A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight The Alexandria Quartet The Spanish Farm Trilogy The Balkan Trilogy The Levant Trilogy The novels of John Cowper Powys. Finally... the sole novel by G.B. Edwards The book of Ebenezer Le Page

@RobertAllenPoet Don Quixote—especially the first part—is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Strangely, I read it at 25 too, at the start of Covid. I haven’t read Tristram Shandy yet even though I have its copy by my bedside, staring at me every night.

@dontharrisme Your list is really good. I especially look forward to Don Quixote again, as I haven't read it since I was 25. I want to see if it is as funny as I remember. Also the depth that I probably missed. I also look forward to rereading Tristram Shandy, for the same reasons

@JohnsonBec32985 It’s self explanatory. Long time has passed since I read some of those books. In that time, I’ve grown, read other books, experienced many changes etc. So when I go back to these books, I am a different person in many ways.

@dontharrisme What you mean " under a different light"?

@HarfeArif Awesome list!

@dontharrisme 1-The Famished Road 2- War and Peace 3- Heat and Dust 4- Great Expectations 5- Jude the Obscure 6- The Wandering Falcon 7- Now and Then 8- Leo the African 9- 1984 10- Midnight Children.

@cyprusad I have a copy but I haven’t read it yet. Absalom, Absalom blew me away. I understand reading Faulkner can be a tad gruelling at times but imo it’s worth it.

@dontharrisme I see a Faulkner in there; have you read Sound and the Fury? Is there any way to read that book and come out enjoying the experience? If there is, I might give that another shot, because the last time around I bailed halfway.

@MichaelSevy These are brilliant books. I am planning to read most of them soon, especially Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (now that I have read some of Mann). I have read The Savage Detectives twice tho. The Tunnel, I wish I could get my hands on a hard copy. Borges I can read for life!

@dontharrisme Most of your list lines up with my reread list. Adding Man Without Qualities, In Search of Lost Time, Savage Detectives, J.R., The Tunnel, Ficciones.