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Post by hi224 on Oct 19, 2017 9:39:06 GMT
list some.
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Post by Marv on Oct 19, 2017 9:59:40 GMT
House of Leaves...but it's deliberately convoluted to create a certain feeling while reading it and it works pretty well.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 19, 2017 11:55:38 GMT
Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Half the book is prefixes about translations and whatnot.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 19, 2017 16:43:51 GMT
The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum. The movie was just as convoluted.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 19, 2017 19:28:32 GMT
Any Thomas Pynchon.
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 19, 2017 19:46:41 GMT
...as described in another thread, I believe Bram Stoker's "Dracula" with its reference/cross reference to diary's, journals and letters is among the most confusing but entertaining novels of all time.
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Post by mrdanwest on Oct 20, 2017 1:29:24 GMT
Ulysses - James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov |
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Oct 27, 2017 16:58:35 GMT
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Pynchon
Finnegans Wake, by Joyce
Pale Fire, by Nabokov
JR, by Gaddis
Dhalgren, by Delaney
Giles Goat Boy, by Barth
Naked Lunch, by Burroughs
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 27, 2017 18:24:17 GMT
I'll throw anything by Calvino on here--especially If on a winter's night a traveler..., a wonderful book. And certainly several Borges tales. I'm not a big Pynchon fan, but The Crying of Lot 49 is a success by any standard. Ah, and how can I forget Foucault's Pendulum?
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Post by lunda2222 on Oct 30, 2017 11:17:32 GMT
The biggest I've read is probably 1001 Nights.
It's stories within stories within stories to the umpteenth degree. So that once you've finished one story, you'll return to the previous story.
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Post by hybridmoments713 on Nov 2, 2017 21:14:12 GMT
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Pynchon Finnegans Wake, by Joyce Pale Fire, by Nabokov JR, by Gaddis Dhalgren, by Delaney Giles Goat Boy, by Barth Naked Lunch, by Burroughs Naked Lunch wasn't convoluted, it just had no plot whatsoever. I never read Gravity's Rainbow, but I read V (which is supposed to be easier) and I couldn't make sense out of any of it. It just seemed like schizophrenic nonsense. |
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Post by dougb on Nov 4, 2017 11:39:08 GMT
House of Leaves...but it's deliberately convoluted to create a certain feeling while reading it and it works pretty well. Yep, I'd say the same. |
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Post by JHA Durant on Nov 8, 2017 2:11:37 GMT
Temple by Matthew Reilly.
The whole book is a God-damn mess. There's Nazis, a death cult, a plot that was probably stolen from the reject bin outside the Indiana Jones production studio, an Indiana Jones ripoff for a main character, evil super-Jaguars, an idol capable of DESTROYING THE WORLD, a journal from the 16th Century that's written like a cheap action novel that takes up almost half the novel etc etc...
Just one of those plots on its own would've been enough.
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