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What book would you be reading if you weren't too lazy/shallow/thick?

Brainaddict said:
If you don't mind take a long period of time to read a book (a couple of months at least) and you don't mind not having any identifiable plot, Gravity's Rainbow is a very cool book. Didn't understand more than half of it, but it had some great moments and some great sections of prose. I'd say give it a go.
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If its the one about the Dresden bombings then I've read it too. Thought it was weird but really enjoyable. Check out Pynchon's short story "Entropy" more of the same but good and interesting and weird.
 
Brainaddict said:
well quite. he ought to be quietly removed from literature curriculums - particularly in schools.
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I love you :)

Now if only I could remove the image of his smug beardy face and the memory of his ghastly poetry and his stupid irritating characters from my head.
 
jodal said:
If its the one about the Dresden bombings then I've read it too. Thought it was weird but really enjoyable. Check out Pynchon's short story "Entropy" more of the same but good and interesting and weird.
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It's about the v2 rockets. are you sure you're not getting confused with slaughterhouse 5 by vonnegut?
 
billy_bob said:
I love you :)

Now if only I could remove the image of his smug beardy face and the memory of his ghastly poetry and his stupid irritating characters from my head.
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I thank the lord daily when I wake that I've managed to get this far in life without reading a single one of his poems.
 
rubbershoes said:
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. It's been looking at me from my bookshelf for more than 10 years.

If it carries on like that it's on a fast track to Oxfam
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More than twenty, in my case. It's not the only one, either.

I got a copy of War and Peace as a book prize nearly twenty-five years ago. It's been so long* I can't read now on principle.

[* = as, indeed, is the book]
 
Most of the above:
War & Peace
Slaughterhouse Five
Don Quixote
A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
I've started Monkey, Cryptonomicon, Moby Dick and Gravity's Rainbow but couldn't finish them.
I've only read Crime & Punishment and Notes From Underground but no more Dostoievsky
 
Brainaddict said:
orang utan, slaughterhouse five is like, 150 pages long :D

What's Monkey?
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I know, I've just never got round to reading it.

Monkey by Wu Ch'eng En (or something like that) - it's what that Japanese silly kids show with the disco theme tune is based on.
 
Monkey is a Chinese folk classic. It's like a cross between Homer's Odyssey and Power Rangers, completely loony but brilliant.
 
Never been able to get more than about five chapters into Brave New World, despite five or six attempts. Otherwise I've read every book in my little collection. I didn't get any further when I took it with me on a 2 month holiday, with no English language alternatives to tempt me away. Too lazy to see if it actually gets interesting.
 
monkey or journey to the west is something that i never thought about reading... but then again the monkey tv show combine with memories of dragonball would probly have me picturing some very strange scenes
 
'The Dispossessed' by Ursula LeGuin has been 1/4 open about a year. Its a very good book, but i just havent felt like reading anything.
 
Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and Vineland, De Lillo's Underworld, Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy and the Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin are all hanging around my house unread. (I'll get around to them!) And has anyone read Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves? Supposed to be the literary equivalent of watching the Blair Witch Project for the first time, allegedly. ;)
Of other books people mention, Crime and Punishment and Moby Dick are well worth the time and effort. The Dispossessed is a good read from a political interest POV.
 
Das Kapital, in the original language.

will hopefully be able to get around to it this autumn as a kind of language excercise as well.
 
Neal Stephensons massive history books. They're quite interesting but I quit half way through the first one (quicksilver) as I couldnt remember who characters were and it was moving really slowly.
Basically too bored and lazy but my dad loves them so they're probably worth a proper go one day.
 
moby dick
the recognitions
tristam shandy
underworld
finnegan's wake

started 'em all and failed to finish - the latter only one page in (!)

i generally love big, complicated, 'difficult' novels but these have (so far) beaten me

think i'll start a clever-dick thread on books like these that people have read, finished and enjoyed...
 
Crime and Punishment. Have attempted it many times and then given up again.

Am currently struggling through Soul Mountain, which I've been picking up and putting down again for months. It's actually quite easy to read, but extremely disjointed.
 
Jambooboo said:
Never been able to get more than about five chapters into Brave New World, despite five or six attempts.
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im surprised that you don't get on with it as it's got quite a strong plot . that can carry you along.

you could check out the BBC radio adaptation so you can bluff your way
 
billy_bob said:
Monkey is a Chinese folk classic. It's like a cross between Homer's Odyssey and Power Rangers, completely loony but brilliant.
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Monkey is a great read, but so difficult to deserve a place on this list. Highly recommended.
 
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