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Re: Reading actual books

[(Anonymous)]

If you want something humorous but "classic", can i suggest you some plays by Plauto? They really make me laugh a lot when I'm down. And since it's not properly a novel but a play and the pace is really fast, you can easily finish the book in two or three hours.
If you want some tragic material, I suggest Euripides. Medea and Bacchae are the best of his plays in my opinion.

Regarding novel, maybe Madame Bovary (Flaubert). Or The Decameron by Boccaccio! It's a collection of short stories, some of them really funny and... dirty. Well, it was written in 1300, so dirty maybe in not really the word for that.
I've read Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki, but I didn't like it that much (in fact, I kind of hate his works). I instead suggest you Confession by Kanae Minato, a very dark and catchy novel.
Mishima Yukio is my favorite japanese novelist and I warmly suggest Kamen no Kokuhaku (don't know how it's translated in english... maybe confession of a mask?). It's very introspective and the protagonist is gay, so maybe that picks your interest.
Oh, AND THE PARASOL PROTECTORATE SERIES! Werewolf and vampires! I'm reading it now (thanks to f!s) and it's really great and refreshing. Maybe try to start from it, it's the "easiest" book of the (shitty)list.

Ah, and don't worry. I, too, struggle with the guilty of not reading proper books that much, but fuck it all. I'm going to enjoy what I want when I want. Now, I'm going back to read my beloved Third!Doctor/Master porny fics, so excuse me.

sorry for my awkward english, tis my third language ahaha

Re: Reading actual books

[lunabee34]

I think you can describe parts of the Decameron as dirty. :) I love to teach that book because the students always love the racy tales.

Another Parasol Protectorate convert! Yay! those books are so much fun.

Re: Reading actual books

[inkdust]

I wish I liked Madame Bovary enough to rec it :-/ Maybe if I hadn't read it in French lit class I would have liked it better, but the dramatic agonizing really got to me. I wanted to like it, I really did. For depressing French lit, I like Zola's work a lot more, mainly La Curée (The Kill, I think?) or Germinal.

Oh! and for less depressing, current French lit, I absolutely recommend The Elegance of the Hedgehog.