Currently reading Dune it’s great so far

I’m still thinking about it and I don’t know if it’s just recency bias, but I think it’s the best novel I’ve had the chance to read in my life.

Reading Demons by Dostoevsky as well as Mason & Dixon by Pynchon

Its super accesable. Super short & does a great job of drawing you in.

nooo not yet, i read dune mesiah & part of the dosadi experiment.

Reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The kid spits way too much

Btw, random question to everyone who sees this. What's the most 'difficult' novel you've ever read? Could be theme or coherence/if you could follow clearly what was happening

I'm like 25 % deep. The kid is with the Glanton gang now and it's getting so good

How is that? Planning on reading it soon

Actually suppppper great

Ive been reading this “type” of book a bunch.

Where an author had a main point they’re trying to push, and some have this brutal sense of repetition,

Telling you everything in your life can be fixed if you follow “their idea”
Often without really backing up to the layman how to apply it..

This has been a pleasant suprise, not only will he point out the flaws in his theory, he also shows you exactly why some people think its better to avoid what constitutes ‘deep work’

Also written by a computer programmer, so that in itself makes him just seem to tie his ideas together better.

Whats ur guys fav russian book?

I love russian history n stuff but I've yet to dip into russian lit

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Was so hard for me to follow and keep up. Finished it, but did not continue the series.

Ulysses by James Joyce. Didn't finish it

The first book? Gunslinger?

Yeah, the first book. I could not remember the actual title of it, but the first of the dark tower series.

Well the series actually gets better with the 2nd book and 3rd being the best. The first is comparatively weak IMO

Dammit... you had to say that, hhaha.

Maybe I will go revisit. No way I am touching one again to catch up, lol

I just put a hold on dune and checked out whipping star based on this thread. I am a little worried that dune will be a similar experience to the gunslinger.... hoping whipping star gets me a little familiar with his writing style.

You're not enjoying dune? Or it's just a convoluted mess to you?

I have not got it yet. I went to check it out from the library today, but the copies are checked out.

I will probably get it next month which gives me some time to read whipping star.

I was saying I am worried dune will have me confused like the gunslinger did. But not letting it stop me.

Lol I hear you. I haven't read dune, but it's on the shelf. Will get to it one day. Still onto Blood Meridian, then Catch 22, then Dune