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Upstairs-Upstairs882 t1_j4fsow4 wrote

Thats what i am always searching for, that fantastic feeling, even more when you are in absolute awe while reading, realizing you are holding a masterpiece in your hands.... and how you never want it to end

For me these were clearly (in no order):

  1. Hyperion
  2. The Sparrow
  3. Radetzkymarsch
  4. Swan Song
  5. Debacle & La Terre (Zola)
  6. The way back (Remarque)
  7. Grapes of wrath, East of eden
  8. Gone girl
  9. No country for old men
  10. Birdsong
  11. Unknown soldier
  12. Lonesome dove
  13. Parts of the Red rising saga
  14. City and the stars
  15. Johnny got his gun
  16. A fire upon the deep

Some of these do have ups and downs and don't wrap up as great as they should, but during parts of them you are simply WOW-ed by their magnificence.

It is equally frustrating when i "dont get" some supposed masterpieces and think that it would be a better experience if i had just read them in another time / phase of life.

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