You could try stuff from Dan Simmons.

Dumas

>>367634

He seems to have written quite a lot, can you recommend one of his books specifically?

>>367637

The author of The Three Musketeers, are you serious?

>>367648
The Count of Monte Cristo is brilliant.

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>>367658

Thanks for the tip bro

Bromance of the Three Kingdoms is hella long.

>>367686
This, but only if you like the setting.

>>367686

hnnnnnnng I've had bad experiences with historical literature..like the Icelandic sagas, just an excuse for people to show off their lineage peens. Unless you really enjoyed it?

long book request?

obligatory Infinite Jest mention

Infinite Jest.

don quijote

>>367723

This sounds hilarious

>>367718
>>367704

Infinite Jest sounds tedious and 'wry'. I'm not a huge fan of contemporary literature...maybe excepting Ian Rankin and a few poets.

>>367737
It is hilarious, I was very surprised that a 400 years old book contained laugh out loud moments.

>>367625
You're not a fag, OP. Why did you posted that as your first image?

>>367900

Because I'm gay and I was browsing for a picture to put with the text, and this one made me laugh.

Cool story, i know.

>>367909
When I said the word 'fag', I meant 'idiot' or 'moron'.

You're not an moron for asking for advice in a imageboard.

William T Vollman. His books are very long. Or all 6 volumes of Proust, that would take up lots of time.

Odysseus and Finnegan's Wake

In addition to all the classics recommended here, how about the Malazan series by Steven Erikson if you happen to be into fantasy literature? Ought to keep you occupied for a while.

Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is also great and hilarious if for some odd reason you haven't read that yet, although it only amounts to about 1000 pages or so when you add in all 5 novels.

ANY THING BY TERRY PRATCHETT.

Not huge, but a bit big and really fun.

Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon

The Savage Detectives and 2666 by Roberto Bolano.

Gravity's Rainbow springs to mind, but if you don't like surrendering yourself to tangential storytelling, this might not be the place for you. All I can say is that it expanded my horizons and taught me a new way to read.

DUNE, PERDIDO STREET STATION

Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan by Celine.. Although if you are a homosexual those books may be off puttingly hetero.. They are hilarious however.

>>367625>>367954

This guy sounds pretty interesting, especially The Royal Family and Rising Up and Rising Down. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>367981
I read Portrait of an Artist as a young man, some good bits (image of the girl at the beach was pretty awe inspiring), but he bores the shit out of me quite often. Thanks anyway.

>>368001
Yeah this guy sounds alright, I love D&D inspired universes. Cheers.

>>368007

lolno

>>368020

This sounds kinda fun. I'm all for modernist aesthetics. I just hate it when post-modernity does avant-guard with such a self-consciousness, as if it's saying "WINK WINK I'M AN INTELLECTUAL AND SO ARE YOU WINK" /rant.

>>368036
If this is like The Luck of Barry Lyndon I'll buy it right now.

>>368083
I'm pretty set in what I like, perhaps unfortunately. I like strong symbolism and a philosophical slant in my stories, believable characters (fuck, Estella from Great Expectations blew me away, if you know of that character you'll know what kind of characterisation i like) and a solid plot (no chop things-up-and-rearrange-everything shenanigans, mind you)

Moby Dick is deceivingly long for something that's barely 500 p.

Moby Dick is pretty amazing, and will definitely kill time due to how long it takes to read.
I would also suggest the Mistborn trilogy. The best fantasy I've ever read, hands down.

A Song of Ice and Fire. Each one has 600-900 pages.

>>368098

Dude, who hasn't read Dune. It's fucking amazing though, i'll grant you that. (MUAD'DIB, MUAD'DIB, MUAD'DIB)

As for the other book..."dreamshit"...monstrous butterflies... what the fuck am i reading. Was this guy on acid while he wrote it?

>>368116
n Book Three, a young man awakes alone in a train carriage. He has no memory of his past and picks his name from a strangely familiar photograph on the wall. He soon arrives in "Unthank, a strange Glasgow-like fantasy city in which there is no daylight and whose disappearing residents suffer from strange symbolic diseases"

How the fuck haven't i heard of this, BOTY ALL YEARS.

>>368117

"a nihilistic novel" HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG.
I don't care much about the sexuality of the characters. Unless it was the focus of book, like Lolita...but that's not a bad book. You understand, i'm sure. Just saw the word "misanthropy" in the description, added by your word "hilarity", makes me reconsider my HNNNNG. I'll give it a go.

>>368152

WHITE WHALE, HOLY GRAIL

>>367640
The always-suggested (because it's terrific) Dan Simmons work is Hyperion. The sequels divide opinion, but I love them as well.


And if you're in the mood for more space opera (though you may well be SF/F'ed out between Hyperion-etc and the Malazan series) I would recommend the Commonwealth trilogy by Peter Hamilton and its sequel work in progress, The Dreaming Void trilogy. They aren't transcendent works for all time, but they are enjoyable and capably writtenlight reading (Malazan -definitely- isn't light) and VERY large. Book 1 weighs in at 350,000 words.

Finally, if you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

the baroque cycle by neal stephenson is pretty fucking long, and good (except for the ending, obviously) if you like history/science/philosophy

The Divine Comedy!

>>368195
Oh Neal Stephenson vs. Endings... I'll say this for his method: at least he doesn't keep writing after he's run out of things to say.

He's getting better though. And at least you only have one ACTUAL ending. Second this suggestion if you're in the mood for a trilogy about the dawning of modern scientific thought that reads with the Science Fiction-y sense of wonder and discovery that it really deserves.

>>368203

haha, yeah he kind of reminds of my method in school when we had to write stories of minimum X words: get to the minimum and then immediately finish with "Then a nuclear war began and everybody died."

Just keep picking up short story collections, brah.

>>368188

Cheers, I think I'll start with Hyperion.

>>368195
I read Snow Crash, so i'll give this ago. Endings are over rated in most other novels too, I find. Give me an example of a novel that ends perfectly?

>>368201
I read this in Italian, fuck year. Dante was a pussy, Virgil was a true bro. Fuck Beatrice, that whore ended their bromance which had begun in hell and lasted through purgatory. Yeah, I mad.

>>368243
I fucking will.

Anyway, to summarise so far. Looks like i'll be choosing to read some of the following (can't afford them all):

Don Qixote
Hyperion
Count of monte cristo
The Royal Family
Mazalan
Baltasar and Blimunda
Moby Dick..
Lanark
Baroque Cycle

Moby Fuckin Dick
And motherfuckin Dickens
Dick Chandler
Dick Dick Dick

>>368335

More seriously though, I'd suggest picking up the first books of the various series (if you like them enough you'll find a way to keep going) and the classics from abebooks.com.

>>368363

ah but which series?

>>368376
Well... all of them if your budget allows. ;)

I think there are only 3 (Hyperion, Malazan, Baroque) listed, but I might be ig'nrant.

ATLAS SHRUGGED

>>368411

oh u

>>367648
Three Musketeers ruled

Finnegan's Wake.

Social interaction! I don't know what country you're in, don't miss your chance to hang out with different people. See art and architecture, go hear music.

>>368459
Think what you're suggesting, man! They might be Continentals!

>>368459

My job will be teaching italians how to speak English. So you know, plenty of social interaction while at work.

If you like fantasy (Middle Eastern - d'jinni, ghouls of the desert, etc.) and/or you like Lovecraft (Nyarlathotep, the Old Ones, ancient magic) you'd probably like Alhazred. Also a looooooong ass book. The entire plot is Alhazred trying to find some kind of magic to reverse his mutilation by hands of the king... but the whole book is about his journey through the lands and discoveries of ancient magic and I personally just wanted to see what would happen next.