Big books > 500 pages that are good but unappreciated / not widely known?
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Easton Long
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Eli Kelly
The Man Without Qualities
Carson Diaz
Atlas shrugged...
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JK it was trash. Rand should have just written essays.
Nicholas Martinez
Harry Potter: The Order of the Pheonix
Landon Butler
Quiet Flows The Don
Not exactly unknown, but not talked about enough here
Bentley Anderson
Sigrid Undset
Lucas Garcia
The Wars of Justinian
Aaron Bennett
Spengler is unappreciated even though everyone is living it
Alexander Williams
Polybius and Pliny the Elder
Ayden Allen
This masterpiece over here. You're not gonna read it though, because you sistematically refuse to learn Italian.
Samuel Wilson
Petrolio
Hudson Butler
Plotinus - Enneads
Ryan Brooks
Totally badass fictionalisation of the French Revolution with doomed friendships, looming disaster and a million historical figure cameos.
Connor Powell
Darconville’s Cat
Sebastian Wilson
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it.
Dominic Brown
This one
Tyler Hernandez
ignored outside France
Sebastian Thomas
dunno why i dont see this talked about
David Johnson
lichtenberg wrote two volumes of hogarth commentary
Andrew Hall
Chase James
Anthony Baker
Connor Ross
las sorias
Jaxson Lopez
David Evans
Eli Diaz
all three volumes
Jordan Ramirez
Jacob Turner
This
Eli Long
Wilhelm Meister
Elijah Reed
Brandon Garcia
Pic related is never discussed and Cuckoo's Nest gets all the love but it's a tremendous novel and IMO it's absolutely a contender for the Great American Novel.
Of course if you're not a burgerclap it might not resonate with you as much
Thomas King
“OP is a Faggot: Why Jezebel Posters are Killing Yea Forums“
Gabriel James
I wanna fuck this hipster witch right in the anus while shes sitting on that chair and leaning her ass out and then blow a big nofap 150 day load up her left colic flexure and the just cool of on the floor for like twenty minutes and then have a ice coffee and ask how her day was but not give a fuck when she precedes to tell me. That load should look brownish reddish with white blood cells all over it.
Alexander Robinson
This is fantastic
Gabriel Butler
Fathers and Crows and The Dying Grass by Vollmann
Matthew Fisher
Really underground
Caleb Reyes
Good answer. That one and Buddenbrooks really deserve more love.
Ryder Brown
Luke Hernandez
The King of Vinland's Saga
Andrew Hill
Sollers, Women
Hunter Hill
1372 pages
Justin Ortiz
I’d like to see her get blacked
Joshua Hall
The Easy Chain - Evan Dara
Hunter Jackson
came here to say this
Aiden Hill
came here to say you’re a faggot
Hudson Myers
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow is absolute biblio
Aiden Clark
ohhh yeah now slap me and spit in my face
Adam Davis
Stendhal is amazing
Brody Williams
Never really see Petersburg or Bely being discussed much despite both being great. I'd also suggest Ford Madox Ford and his Parade's End series.
Lincoln Myers
Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
Lucas Collins
it isn't even translated in french, wtf
I wanna buy petersburg because it's recommended very often, but as you say it's hardly ever discussed. What bugs me is that nobody ever says just what it's actually about. Is it really impossible to sum up the plot in 2 plain clear sentences?
Gavin Adams
I think some of Anthony Trollope's books are very underappreciated, The Way We Live Now is especially good.
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>The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. "I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age," Trollope said. His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune.
>His picture of late nineteenth century England is of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy, where the traditional virtues of Tory squirearchy, represented by Roger Carbury, prove to be no match for the financial genius of Augustus Melmotte.
Adrian Nelson
good book
also: the thin red line
Zachary Reyes
The Instructions
Chase Green
Book of Numbers and Witz
Ethan Morales
Levi Sullivan
My dad really likes this book but this is the first time I’ve seen anyone else mention it
Dominic Thompson
From what I’ve heard it’s like a Russian Ulysses, which would make it difficult to sum up.
Ryan Howard
In Partial Disgrace
Jack Stewart
Nice try, Adam. No one other than try-hard bloggers, v-loggers and Paris Review rejects are gonna pretend to read your book and peddle it to the hoi polloi.
Dominic Barnes
Wyndham Lewis - The Apes of God
Paul Verhaeghen - Omega Minor
Women and Men of course
Bentley Nguyen
Do I have to read the other Dreams books first?
Daniel Parker
is this YA
James Gray
Nope, they are all standalone.
Hudson Flores
800 pages of comfy discussion and feels.
Elijah Gomez
it isn't talked about because only the first third of it is good
this book is the gold standard for a talented novelist committing artistic suicide out of political expediency
Hunter Wright
Secondig this masterpiece.
Leo Williams
KEK
Oliver Ward
On the surface level it is about a govenor's son being involved with a group who want him to blow up his father's office but it is much more layered and denser than that. I can't remember if it was ambiguous or not the son was just batshit and the group never existed or not but I recommend the book since it is rich in symbolism. I suggest the Elsworth translation from Pushkin Press.
Jason Perry
very exited to get to this some day, but one of the characters I think the mc was in two other novels and they are themselves metafictional, so im gonna try those first.
Tyler Evans
Creation by Gore Vidal, this isn't read/talked about nearly as much compared to his other historical books like Burr and Lincoln, not that those books are at all bad but this one is really quite excellent and has a more "epic" sweeping story that's very well executed.
Tyler Gonzalez
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Colton Hernandez
Brody Barnes
He's not unknown but this book really is superb at times.