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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2952017, member: 1001"] I decided to finally dive into fiction a few years ago. I'd had enough autobiographies, biographies, history, and other non-fiction books that are 300 pages but could be neatly summarized in 10-15 pages. It's interesting re-reading some classics that I read 20+ years ago in HS. Of course you have a very different perspective reading these as an adult. [LIST] [*]East of Eden has to be my favorite. Bonus points for the story beginning in Connecticut. [*]Pillars of the Earth is fantastic. The mass-market paperback might be the most intimidating book I've ever opened: about 1,100 pages, the tiniest font imaginable, and no wasted space/margins. Talk about a situation where the premise of a book sounds boring (monks build a cathedral in 12th century England) yet it's anything but. [*]Portnoy's Complaint was absurd, I didn't know it was possible to laugh so much while reading. I have all of Roth's books from the 90s on my to-read list. [*]John Updike is the one author who I can read no matter what. The man was obnoxiously talented. I'd say it's a testament to his abilities that he mostly wrote about the boring and mundane yet his books have yet bore me. I even bought some of his short story anthologies; never in my life did I think I'd read short stories. He was a creepy pervert but good grief could he write. For my money, he was the best writer of the latter half of the 20th century. [/LIST] At the moment I'm halfway through Blood Meridian, which has been mentioned a few times in this thread. I don't think I've ever had to look up so many words during a single book. This [URL='https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/260613']site[/URL] summarizes it nicely. I've never had to be so slow and deliberate when reading a book before. It's pretty wild but absolutely worth it. I read The Road and No Country For Old Men before that. Perhaps McCarthy's border trilogy will be next. [/QUOTE]

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