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The Silmarillion when I was eight or nine. The whole Húrin saga was just too much for me; I was bawling the whole time between Nienor Níniel's death and Húrin's end.

I also cried when I first read Väinö Linna's Täällä Pohjantähden Alla. However, in general, I cry much more during films than books.

They had two children out of love and one out of habit.

Crime and Punishment --> The Idiot --> The Brothers K

This by Väinö Linna. A very good book series.

Last three:

Dostoyevski - Crime and Punishment
Joyce - Dubliners
Kafka - The Metamorphosis

Currently reading:

Dostoyevski's Brothers Karamazov

Next three: Probably some Tolstoy and Dostoyevski

David Eddings for sure. The Belgariad and Malloreon were both my favourites alongside Belgarath. Tolkien, too.

300 pages into Brothers Karamazov now. It's a very good Finnish translation, and I've enjoyed the book immensely. Two thirds left.

>Last read
Dostojevsky - Crime and Punishment
James Joyce - Dubliners
James Joyce - A Portrait of an Artist as a young man

>Now Reading
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

>Next three:
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky - The Idiot

God tier: Tolstoy, Dostojevsky, Joyce, Proust
Demi-god tier: Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Twain, Hugo

>>3038852

A great, great book. One of the best.

3 > 4 > 7 > 5 > 1 > 6 > 2. This is not debatable.

I like some of its fanfiction the most.

Dubliners is a really good short story collection.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

The Lord of the Rings and David Eddings' Malloreon and Belgariad.

The one you posted is very accurate for the thrid age. Just widen the map into the left and add a couple of islands - Tol Morwen, for one, the island where Túrin, Morwen and Niënor Níniel died.

David Eddings' Belgariad, Mallorean and everything related to it.

My favourites:

Schindler's List, From Here to Eternity, The Godfather, The Pianist, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Breakfast at Tiffany's, On the Waterfront, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Being John Malkovich, The Wizard of Oz, The Piano.

1. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. James Joyce - The portrait of an artist as a young man
3. James Joyce - Ulysses

John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. East of Eden is great as well.

You could also try David Copperfield by Dickens and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

David Eddigns' Belgariad/Mallorean saga, Tolkien, Enid Blyton.

John Steinbeck. He has a very pleasant writing style.

You should also try Mark Twain, Orwell and Vonnegut.

John Steinbeck easily for me.

ITT: People thinking the Higgs Boson gives all matter its mass/energy

>protip: It doesn't, at all