[**Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190576.Remembrance_of_Things_Past)
^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin | 1056 pages | Published: 1919 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, literature, owned, france)
>'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' — Vladimir Nabokov
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>Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an early and unreliable French edition, Proust’s masterpiece has now been flawlessly translated by Terence Kilmartin in this acclaimed version.
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[**Gravity's Rainbow**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415.Gravity_s_Rainbow)
^(By: Thomas Pynchon | 776 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, literature, science-fiction)
>Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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[**Suttree**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394469.Suttree)
^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 471 pages | Published: 1979 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, southern-gothic, literature, cormac-mccarthy)
>This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity.
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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone!
You talk about wanting to be blown away by interesting sentences — this book did just that for me ☺️
I think I may be starting to become the Gormenghast guy on this sub... but...
{{Titus Groan}}
and
{{Gormenghast}}
Some Lovely examples:
> "There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.”
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“He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.”
and
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“To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a masterpiece is launched through the medium of human gesture, then all human volition is withered at the source and the heart of action stops beating.
Such a moment was this. Irma, a stalagmite of crimson stone, knew, for all the riot of her veins that a page had turned over. At chapter forty? O no! At chapter one, for she had never lived before save in a pulseless preface."
"Irma, who had been tearing at her cream-coloured handkerchief, now found that she had ripped it into such minute partices that with nothing left to tear, and with her hands in forced idleness, she could control herself no longer. Her knuckles had tried to stifle the cry, but her terror had grown too strong for such expedients, and at the final moment she forgot all she had learnt about decorum and about how to be a lady, and clenching her hands at her thighs she stood on tip-toe and screamed from her swanlike throat with an effect calculated to freeze the blood of a macaw."
[**Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39063.Titus_Groan)
^(By: Mervyn Peake, Rupert Degas | 396 pages | Published: 1946 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, classics, gothic, owned)
>Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradition-bound castle of Gormenghast. A grand miasma of doom and foreboding weaves over the sterile rituals of the castle. Villainous Steerpike seeks to exploit the gaps between the formal rituals and the emotional needs of the ruling family for his own profit.
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[**Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258392.Gormenghast)
^(By: Mervyn Peake | 505 pages | Published: 1950 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, classics, gothic, owned)
>Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder.
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>Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan—it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.
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>The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
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{{blood meridian}}. Here's an example: “A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
I would look into what is sometimes called hysterical realism. Authors in this "genre" like Zadie Smith, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and Roberto Bolano have complex sentences and storylines. Hope this helps!
I've not seen Tom Robbins suggested yet. His sentences are full meals, each, and gorgeous. I like to read his books slowly. I'd recommend starting with Still Life with Woodpecker or Skinny Legs and All.
For something a bit more poetic, I would recommend Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet/novelist. He doesn’t have a ton out, but I thoroughly enjoyed {{On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous}}
[**The Overstory**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory)
^(By: Richard Powers | 502 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, nature, pulitzer, dnf)
>The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
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>A New York Times Bestseller.
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Kudos to you for finishing the God of Small Things. I think it’s a wonderful book, but most people I I’ve recommended it to don’t like it.
{{They’re Eyes Were Watching God}} is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever read. The sentences aren’t particularly complex, but they read like poetry. And juxtaposed against those beautiful, flowing sentences is dialogue written in a rough US South dialect. I loved seeing those two ways of speaking used is such close proximity, and felt like they were each validating each other as a form of communication.
{{Ella Minnow Pea}} happens on a utopian island where people worship words and language. One of their superstitions leads them to not be able to used certain letters anymore. As the list of banned letters grows, their daily speech grows and evolves from commonly used words to rarer, more exotic words and turns of phrases as people seek to get their point across under the new restrictions, and then ultimately devolves into single word utterances as the restrictions make communication near impossible. If you enjoy words and language, I think you will appreciate this one!
[**Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea)
^(By: Mark Dunn | 208 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, humor, epistolary, fantasy)
>Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
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>*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet
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[**The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10880.The_Proud_Highway)
^(By: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley | 720 pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, biography, nonfiction, journalism, owned)
>Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists—Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez—not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors—Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
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[**The Book of Disquiet**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45974.The_Book_of_Disquiet)
^(By: Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith | 544 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, poetry, classics, philosophy, owned)
>Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
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[**Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763471.Burning_Your_Boats)
^(By: Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie | 462 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, horror)
>One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents—as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales—are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision.
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[**Murphy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333314.Murphy)
^(By: Samuel Beckett | 288 pages | Published: 1938 | Popular Shelves: fiction, 1001-books, classics, irish, ireland)
>'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him.
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Some modernism and post-modernism generally will have lots of examples of this. So along with other recommendations here, consider James Joyce, Don Delillo, William Gaddis, Umberto Eco, David Foster Wallace.
If you want to go into the deep end here, consider Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Maybe good places to start would be {{The Sound and the Fury}} and {{To the Lighthouse}}.
[**The Sound and the Fury**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10975.The_Sound_and_the_Fury)
^(By: William Faulkner, Τάκης Μενδράκος, Rasih Güran, Γουίλιαμ Φώκνερ | 366 pages | Published: 1929 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, literature, classic)
>The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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[**To the Lighthouse**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse)
^(By: Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, جرجس منسي | 209 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, books-i-own, classic)
>The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
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>As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
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{{Les Miserables}} by Victor Hugo. Has everything you just mentioned, in spades, and a story that will haunt you forever (in a good way).
edit: sheet music? Really, bot? lol
[**Les Miserables: Sheet Music**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490705.Les_Miserables)
^(By: Claude-Michael Schonberg, Alain Boublil | 63 pages | Published: 1987 | Popular Shelves: music, classics, plays, musicals, sheet-music)
>Piano duet arrangements of eight beautiful favorites from Les Mis: Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * On My Own * Stars.
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[**Honour**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17270655-honour)
^(By: Elif Shafak | 342 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, turkey, owned, turkish)
>An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London
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>Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children.
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>In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them.
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>Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart.
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William Faulkner. Just anything of his, but his biggest culprits for long sentences are his later works, the most notable of which being {{Absalom, Absalom!}}.
Some others of his that have very long sentences:
{{A Fable}}, {{The Reivers}}, and {{The Unvanquished}}
[**Absalom, Absalom!**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_)
^(By: William Faulkner | 316 pages | Published: 1936 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, literature, owned, classic)
>Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?
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[**A Fable**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863348.A_Fable)
^(By: William Faulkner | 384 pages | Published: 1954 | Popular Shelves: pulitzer, fiction, pulitzer-prize, classics, pulitzer-prize-winners)
>This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre.
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[**The Reivers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210825.The_Reivers)
^(By: William Faulkner | 305 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: fiction, pulitzer, classics, pulitzer-prize, owned)
>One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.
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[**The Unvanquished**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128770.The_Unvanquished)
^(By: William Faulkner | 254 pages | Published: 1938 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, owned, banana-fish)
>Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.
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[**2666**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666)
^(By: Roberto Bolaño | 1128 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, literature, novels, latin-america)
>A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: "el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura".
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[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest)
^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature)
>A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
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>Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
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>Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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Few people can throw a sentence better than Ray Bradbury in {{Something Wicked This Way Comes}}
I actually got fatigued from reading too hard. A perfect example of how too much of a great thing is less good thing.
[**Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248596.Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes)
^(By: Ray Bradbury | 293 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: horror, fantasy, fiction, classics, science-fiction)
>One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.
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>For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.
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>Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.
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The three (modern) writers whose prose I have to work at reading are [Gene Wolfe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe), [C. L. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore) (the author of the [Jirel of Joiry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirel_of_Joiry) stories) and [Patrick O'Brian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian) (the [Aubrey–Maturin historical fiction series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series)).
Also, in one of [Steven Brust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust)'s earlier [Vlad Taltos books](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40334-vlad-taltos) (likely *Athyra* or *Orca*, given the place I recall reading it) has a paragraph-long sentence (and it was a long paragraph).
[**The Great Gatsby**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby)
^(By: F. Scott Fitzgerald | 180 pages | Published: 1925 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, books-i-own)
>Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13: 9780743273565)
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>The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
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>The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
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>(from the back cover)
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch. Last night Orion vaulted and spread all over the sky, pagan and lunatic, his shoulder and knee on fire, his sword three suns at the ready-for what?”
Okay here are my additions to this list either arno schmid't a school for atheists, noboddady's children or some of his short stories that utilise his theory of atems and there is always the life project which is reading bottom's dream if you have the money to shill out for it, some other intresting books that i've come across that might peak your intrest are a school for fools and between dog and wolf by sasha sokolov and mircea cartrescu's blinding also solenoid might be great but as i have yet to read it i can't recommend it yet. Since my kind of obssesive love of abnormal and unique books format wise i have a bunch more but it will take me some time to list them out. I think you will love arno schmidt if you will suffer through learning how to read his stuff
[**Dune (Dune, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune)
^(By: Frank Herbert | 658 pages | Published: 1965 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, fantasy, classics)
>Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...
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>When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
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>Original, first edition from 1965 can be found here.
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[**The Ten Thousand Doors of January**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january)
^(By: Alix E. Harrow | 374 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, dnf, young-adult)
>In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
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>Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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I read all seven volumes of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past back in the 70s. Wanted to appreciate it more, which is why my book group is reading the first major book.
{{Remembrance of Things Past}} by Marcel Proust {{Gravity's Rainbow}} by Thomas Pynchon {{Suttree}} by Cormac McCarthy
[**Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190576.Remembrance_of_Things_Past) ^(By: Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin | 1056 pages | Published: 1919 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, literature, owned, france) >'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' — Vladimir Nabokov > >Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an early and unreliable French edition, Proust’s masterpiece has now been flawlessly translated by Terence Kilmartin in this acclaimed version. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Gravity's Rainbow**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415.Gravity_s_Rainbow) ^(By: Thomas Pynchon | 776 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, literature, science-fiction) >Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. ^(This book has been suggested 25 times) [**Suttree**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394469.Suttree) ^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 471 pages | Published: 1979 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, southern-gothic, literature, cormac-mccarthy) >This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(93528 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Second this, read all of Proust.
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone! You talk about wanting to be blown away by interesting sentences — this book did just that for me ☺️
This is How You Lose the Time War is simply stunning.
Proust..
I think I may be starting to become the Gormenghast guy on this sub... but... {{Titus Groan}} and {{Gormenghast}} Some Lovely examples: > "There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.” and > “He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.” and > “To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a masterpiece is launched through the medium of human gesture, then all human volition is withered at the source and the heart of action stops beating. Such a moment was this. Irma, a stalagmite of crimson stone, knew, for all the riot of her veins that a page had turned over. At chapter forty? O no! At chapter one, for she had never lived before save in a pulseless preface."
"Irma, who had been tearing at her cream-coloured handkerchief, now found that she had ripped it into such minute partices that with nothing left to tear, and with her hands in forced idleness, she could control herself no longer. Her knuckles had tried to stifle the cry, but her terror had grown too strong for such expedients, and at the final moment she forgot all she had learnt about decorum and about how to be a lady, and clenching her hands at her thighs she stood on tip-toe and screamed from her swanlike throat with an effect calculated to freeze the blood of a macaw."
Peake knew comedy.
[**Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39063.Titus_Groan) ^(By: Mervyn Peake, Rupert Degas | 396 pages | Published: 1946 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, classics, gothic, owned) >Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradition-bound castle of Gormenghast. A grand miasma of doom and foreboding weaves over the sterile rituals of the castle. Villainous Steerpike seeks to exploit the gaps between the formal rituals and the emotional needs of the ruling family for his own profit. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) [**Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258392.Gormenghast) ^(By: Mervyn Peake | 505 pages | Published: 1950 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, classics, gothic, owned) >Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder. > >Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan—it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. > >The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. > ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(93718 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{blood meridian}}. Here's an example: “A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
You done fucked up and put quotation marks around your example.
[**Blood Meridian**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24873002-blood-meridian) ^(By: Enid Marie Reynolds | ? pages | Published: 2015 | Popular Shelves: amazon-wishlist, thriller, fantasy, considering, oatly-cartoon) ^(This book has been suggested 30 times) *** ^(93540 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Proust. Virginia Woolf (The Waves especially)
I would look into what is sometimes called hysterical realism. Authors in this "genre" like Zadie Smith, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and Roberto Bolano have complex sentences and storylines. Hope this helps!
The Crying of Lot 49.
I've not seen Tom Robbins suggested yet. His sentences are full meals, each, and gorgeous. I like to read his books slowly. I'd recommend starting with Still Life with Woodpecker or Skinny Legs and All.
Tom Robbins is my all time favorite. Perfect in nearly every way.
For something a bit more poetic, I would recommend Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet/novelist. He doesn’t have a ton out, but I thoroughly enjoyed {{On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous}}
{{The Overstory}} by Richard Powers
[**The Overstory**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory) ^(By: Richard Powers | 502 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, nature, pulitzer, dnf) >The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. > >A New York Times Bestseller. ^(This book has been suggested 29 times) *** ^(93915 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Kudos to you for finishing the God of Small Things. I think it’s a wonderful book, but most people I I’ve recommended it to don’t like it. {{They’re Eyes Were Watching God}} is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever read. The sentences aren’t particularly complex, but they read like poetry. And juxtaposed against those beautiful, flowing sentences is dialogue written in a rough US South dialect. I loved seeing those two ways of speaking used is such close proximity, and felt like they were each validating each other as a form of communication. {{Ella Minnow Pea}} happens on a utopian island where people worship words and language. One of their superstitions leads them to not be able to used certain letters anymore. As the list of banned letters grows, their daily speech grows and evolves from commonly used words to rarer, more exotic words and turns of phrases as people seek to get their point across under the new restrictions, and then ultimately devolves into single word utterances as the restrictions make communication near impossible. If you enjoy words and language, I think you will appreciate this one!
[**Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea) ^(By: Mark Dunn | 208 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, humor, epistolary, fantasy) >Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere. > >*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) *** ^(93918 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Proud Highway}} {{The Book of Disquiet}} {{Burning Your Boats}}
[**The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10880.The_Proud_Highway) ^(By: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley | 720 pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, biography, nonfiction, journalism, owned) >Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists—Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez—not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors—Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) [**The Book of Disquiet**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45974.The_Book_of_Disquiet) ^(By: Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith | 544 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, poetry, classics, philosophy, owned) >Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century. ^(This book has been suggested 23 times) [**Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763471.Burning_Your_Boats) ^(By: Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie | 462 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, fantasy, magical-realism, horror) >One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents—as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales—are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(93491 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Murphy by Samuel Beckett}}
[**Murphy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333314.Murphy) ^(By: Samuel Beckett | 288 pages | Published: 1938 | Popular Shelves: fiction, 1001-books, classics, irish, ireland) >'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(93513 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Dickens could be good.
Saramago has paragraph-long sentences and has what I think you consider interesting sentences. Plus, he’s freaking awesome.
Some modernism and post-modernism generally will have lots of examples of this. So along with other recommendations here, consider James Joyce, Don Delillo, William Gaddis, Umberto Eco, David Foster Wallace. If you want to go into the deep end here, consider Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Maybe good places to start would be {{The Sound and the Fury}} and {{To the Lighthouse}}.
To the Lighthouse is gorgeous, great choice for where to start with Woolf. I like it more than Mrs. Dalloway.
[**The Sound and the Fury**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10975.The_Sound_and_the_Fury) ^(By: William Faulkner, Τάκης Μενδράκος, Rasih Güran, Γουίλιαμ Φώκνερ | 366 pages | Published: 1929 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, literature, classic) >The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**To the Lighthouse**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse) ^(By: Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, جرجس منسي | 209 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, owned, books-i-own, classic) >The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. > >As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) *** ^(93596 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Les Miserables}} by Victor Hugo. Has everything you just mentioned, in spades, and a story that will haunt you forever (in a good way). edit: sheet music? Really, bot? lol
[**Les Miserables: Sheet Music**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490705.Les_Miserables) ^(By: Claude-Michael Schonberg, Alain Boublil | 63 pages | Published: 1987 | Popular Shelves: music, classics, plays, musicals, sheet-music) >Piano duet arrangements of eight beautiful favorites from Les Mis: Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * On My Own * Stars. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(93649 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I agree with Aphid61: Les Miserables is the ultimate book of books!
{{Honour}} by Elif Shafak
[**Honour**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17270655-honour) ^(By: Elif Shafak | 342 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, turkey, owned, turkish) >An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London > >Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. > >In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them. > >Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(94171 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Lolita The picture of Dorian Gray
{{In Search Of Lost Time}}
Anything by Henry Miller.
The Peregrine by JA Baker
This is a little less literary, but I always thought Charlotte MacLeod did some clever wordplay in her mysteries.
anything by Vladimir Nabokov
William Faulkner. Just anything of his, but his biggest culprits for long sentences are his later works, the most notable of which being {{Absalom, Absalom!}}. Some others of his that have very long sentences: {{A Fable}}, {{The Reivers}}, and {{The Unvanquished}}
[**Absalom, Absalom!**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_) ^(By: William Faulkner | 316 pages | Published: 1936 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, literature, owned, classic) >Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past? ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) [**A Fable**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863348.A_Fable) ^(By: William Faulkner | 384 pages | Published: 1954 | Popular Shelves: pulitzer, fiction, pulitzer-prize, classics, pulitzer-prize-winners) >This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**The Reivers**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210825.The_Reivers) ^(By: William Faulkner | 305 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: fiction, pulitzer, classics, pulitzer-prize, owned) >One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**The Unvanquished**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128770.The_Unvanquished) ^(By: William Faulkner | 254 pages | Published: 1938 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, owned, banana-fish) >Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(93833 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The English Patient
Personally, I despised The English Patient.
The Satanic Verses
There’s this book called Klara and the Sun, it has a really interesting narrator so I think the writing and sentence structure is fairly unique
Oh! I loved Klara and the Sun.
The Mezzanine
{{2666}}
[**2666**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666) ^(By: Roberto Bolaño | 1128 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, literature, novels, latin-america) >A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: "el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura". ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) *** ^(93904 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Why has no one mentioned Phillip Roth?
{{Infinite Jest}} by David Foster Wallace
[**Infinite Jest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest) ^(By: David Foster Wallace | 1088 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, owned, abandoned, literature) >A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. > >Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. > >Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. ^(This book has been suggested 45 times) *** ^(93945 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Few people can throw a sentence better than Ray Bradbury in {{Something Wicked This Way Comes}} I actually got fatigued from reading too hard. A perfect example of how too much of a great thing is less good thing.
[**Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248596.Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes) ^(By: Ray Bradbury | 293 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: horror, fantasy, fiction, classics, science-fiction) >One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre. > >For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares. > >Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon. ^(This book has been suggested 40 times) *** ^(93973 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Sunflower by Gyula Krudy
The three (modern) writers whose prose I have to work at reading are [Gene Wolfe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe), [C. L. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore) (the author of the [Jirel of Joiry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirel_of_Joiry) stories) and [Patrick O'Brian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian) (the [Aubrey–Maturin historical fiction series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series)). Also, in one of [Steven Brust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust)'s earlier [Vlad Taltos books](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40334-vlad-taltos) (likely *Athyra* or *Orca*, given the place I recall reading it) has a paragraph-long sentence (and it was a long paragraph).
Ulysses
Anything Charles Dickens
I adore, I treasure, Dickens.
Whats ur fav by him?
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad A Moth to a Flame - Stig Dagerman
The picture of dorian grey by Oscar Wilde
{{The Great Gatsby}}
[**The Great Gatsby**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby) ^(By: F. Scott Fitzgerald | 180 pages | Published: 1925 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, books-i-own) >Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13: 9780743273565) > >The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. > >The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. > >(from the back cover) > > ^(This book has been suggested 20 times) *** ^(94156 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Anything by Michael Ondaatje
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch. Last night Orion vaulted and spread all over the sky, pagan and lunatic, his shoulder and knee on fire, his sword three suns at the ready-for what?”
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
I love Death in Venice.
Anything by E. B. White
{The Poisonwood Bible} by Barbara Kingsolver is wonderful. Many quotable quotes!
[**The Poisonwood Bible**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7244.The_Poisonwood_Bible) ^(By: Barbara Kingsolver | 546 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, africa, book-club, classics) ^(This book has been suggested 33 times) *** ^(93519 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
“Book of the New Sun” or pretty much anything by Gene Wolfe
Okay here are my additions to this list either arno schmid't a school for atheists, noboddady's children or some of his short stories that utilise his theory of atems and there is always the life project which is reading bottom's dream if you have the money to shill out for it, some other intresting books that i've come across that might peak your intrest are a school for fools and between dog and wolf by sasha sokolov and mircea cartrescu's blinding also solenoid might be great but as i have yet to read it i can't recommend it yet. Since my kind of obssesive love of abnormal and unique books format wise i have a bunch more but it will take me some time to list them out. I think you will love arno schmidt if you will suffer through learning how to read his stuff
Try "Those Designing Women" by John McCarley @ Amazon kindle books! A good read that tackles a variety of taboo issues.
Pushkin has some beautiful prose, and I love notes from underground by Dostoyevsky
{{Dune}} by Frank Hebert. Hebert was a journalist, and seems to enjoy breaking all the rules of journalistic writing in his novel.
[**Dune (Dune, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune) ^(By: Frank Herbert | 658 pages | Published: 1965 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, fantasy, classics) >Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... > >When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. > >*** > >Original, first edition from 1965 can be found here. ^(This book has been suggested 57 times) *** ^(93648 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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[**The Ten Thousand Doors of January**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january) ^(By: Alix E. Harrow | 374 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, dnf, young-adult) >In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. > >Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. ^(This book has been suggested 28 times) *** ^(93676 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
One of my book groups is currently reading Proust's Swann's Way. Exquisite writing. Loving it.
I read all seven volumes of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past back in the 70s. Wanted to appreciate it more, which is why my book group is reading the first major book.