Classics worth reading and those not worth the time - (Popular but not classics books are okay to include too, forgot about them)

I gave up after 7 years of Dante. Inferno was literal hell to read and Purgatory wasn't much better, I stopped halfway through Purgatory.

The below book, ON THE OTHER HAND, is BEYOND BASED and should be in everyone's library.

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The works of Harlan Ellison are pretty good but the man was kind of a dick.
But the thing I respect about him is he owned being a cranky difficult man who sued literally everyone he basically said if you're going to steal from me I'm going to sue you and take all of your buddy.
He also gets my respect for saying I do not care if people believe in political correctness and this was in the 90s
 
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Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
after a number of kiwis suggested it in this thread, i read a confederacy of dunces. just finished it this morning and i highly recommend it. an absolute classic. ignatius reilly would definitly have a thread on the site if he was real and/or be a regular poster here.
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The difference between a Kiwi Farmer and a lolcow is how much of their degeneracy they flaunt and whether there's a real name attached.
 
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Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" sucks ass.
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This reminds me of the Hot Shots joke:
"Hey, what are you reading?"
"Great Expectations."
"Is it any good?"
"It's not all I hoped for."
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I enjoyed reading Beowulf. Nothing quite like older epic poetry praising a man who slew monsters as a young man and as an old man.

Romeo and Juliet grew on me, especially after having to take a class on Shakespeare in college. The professor pointing out that the play isn't so much about two teenagers killing themselves over a 3 day romance as it is about two high society families refusing to stop quarreling with each other until their heirs to the throne kill each other left an impact on me.

Ulysses is the midwit's idea of a smart book due to its technical complexity, but it's just boring.

EDIT: Kokoro is a mixed bag. I found the first 2/3rds of the book a slog, trying to make the Old Man rather mysterious. The last 1/3 (the letter written by the old man) was rather decent.
 
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> be me, unsophistocated
> decide to try to get into poetry
> poetry always seemed kind of gay, but figure that's a mindset I just need to grow out of
> look up good entry-points for poetry
> get recommended Walt Whitman, "America's poet"
> buy Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition for $6
> open the book
> it's gay porn

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California Newt said:
> be me, unsophistocated
> decide to try to get into poetry
> poetry always seemed kind of gay, but figure that's a mindset I just need to grow out of
> look up good entry-points for poetry
> get recommended Walt Whitman, "America's poet"
> buy Leaves of Grass, deathbed edition for $6
> open the book
> it's gay porn

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Next time read kipling probably the last poet worth reading i recommend his barracks room ballads gentlemen rankers is probably one of the greatest poems ever.

For you rome comtemplators I recommend Attic Nights, Deipnosophistaí, or Historical Miscellarny, these are collections of anecdotes idle musings and so forth about a huge range of topics so if you want good bed time reading you really can't beat them.
 
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I've seen a few thumbs down for Ethan Frome
+2 to that brutha
I get it, a married adult man playing house with his cousin is a childish affair, now why are you making me read about it.

And while I understand the Count of Monte Cristo in and of itself IS a bit sloggish, it is almost always leagues better than the derivative slop I hear people talking about at parties.
"Oh my gawd a girlie is made fun of for being a fat pig and has her jaw wired shut to lose weight and like totally gets her revenge on the mean girlies"
Miss me with that shit.
It also gets better if you read up on some French history just to get to know the period better.

The Blade Itself and it's sequel were fine stories until the third totally shit the bed and led to the author chasing that line all the way to the bottom of the latrine with his follow-on girl power novels.
 
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