[Closed] High Brow Reading - Ulysses

finbar - Member

Sorry don't understand, nicer?

For the most part Tolstoy writes about beautiful rich people, much like Jane Austen. Dostoevsky is obviously a bit grittier.

Ah, most definitely. But I think that's what attracts me. The aristocracy was pretty much the same everywhere but all the details about the lives of the serfs etc I love and haven't come across elsewhere.

I did give up on 'House of the Dead' just found it a bit rambling and incredibly depressing, even by his standards!

try William S Burroughs - Naked Lunch

slightly more coherent (ish) but with added (very) naughty sex and violence

Yunki - they've made that into a film... why waste any more that 139 mins of your life?

Will Self is good too, I've read Liver which is a good starting point as it's 3 short(er) stories and just finished My Idea Of Fun which dragged a bit in the middle but was totally worth it for the ending.

He has a unique style.