Post your favorite hidden gem / underrated book

Post your favorite hidden gem / underrated book

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Zorba the Greek is very dear to me

Ironweed gets all the love from William Kennedy fans. I prefer this one.

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Pic related, I don't think I've ever seen it discussed here and it is very good. The last bit is a little lackluster though

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>hidden gem/underrated
That one's on every scifi list ever made.

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I don't see it come up often, but admittedly, I spend hardly any time at all on Yea Forums or Yea Forums as a whole.

opps forgot pic

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gets namedropped a lot but no one actually reads it

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the third book was the hardest hitting in my opinion
you read st leibowitz and the horse woman?

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Cringe

I could pretend that The Cathedral surpasses it, but then I would only be pretending. Good choice.

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pic related

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i almost bought that book. maybe ill get it next week if they still have it (library sells old books for cheap, and i saw it there)

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At least on this board.

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Stefan Zweig in general. His memoir is absolutely heartbreaking

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This italian bad boy

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does he die at the end

No, but he does kill himself once he concludes it and most editions contain an appendix photocopy of his brief farewell note.

itt: overrated books

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What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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