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Has anyone on here become interested in novels after previously losing interest? I haven't greatly enjoyed a novel for years, apart from a few James Ellroy novels (also The Fountainhead and some Houellebecq novels, now that I remember).

It really seems like the novel is an irrelevant, dead art form. You can sort all literary fiction in to either incoherent, Avant Garde, emperor has no clothes post modernism / stream of consciousness, or the Franzen realist style.

Do you have any honest to God enjoyable recommendations? I know this is the most generic request forever but I'm going to go ahead and ignore all recommendations of anything older than 50 years because it's likely something you're told you have to like to seem smart.

>> No.19113429

I've had a hard time getting back into novels. I remember loving the experience of reading them when I was younger, but the magic seems to have disappeared. The only novel I legitimately enjoyed reading in the last couple years is The Name of the Rose. Really a stand-out work that's interesting to read and has no comparison.

>> No.19113493

>>19113410
do you have any other past favorite books? or even some favorite films to know what kind of stuff you're interested in?

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>>19113410
GR is relevant to this day

>> No.19114317

>>19113410
start with the greeks

>> No.19114323

>>19114285
gr sucks

>> No.19114334

>>19114323
Keep at it ;)

>> No.19114818

>>19113410
A lot of times with the longer classics I find it a struggle to get through, usually reading it bit by bit over a year or two (while reading other stuff ofc, I feel like a lot of people who rag on classics are people too afraid or autistic to read more than one book at a time), but by the time I'm nearing the end i start to get really sad that it's going to be over and realize just how much having this world to go back to has meant to me. That's what happened with Don Quixote and Moby Dick.

Sometimes they're a joy all the way through though. Like Great Gatsby or Great Expectations or Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man.

A lot of my favorite books I actually didn't even enjoy all that much while I was reading, but ten years later i realize that story has just been living inside me that whole time and now I just love it, love having that story in my head. This happened to me with Candide and Canticle for Leibowitz and Earth Abides.