My favorite books are A Light in August by William Faulkner, Stoner by John Edward Williams, Immortality by Milan Kundera, and Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. I also love Flannery O’Connor, and I think the ASOIAF books are fun. I was most recently trying to read Absalom Absalom but it’s tough to stick with and not get lost as I’m reading while I doze off, so I need a book that isn’t challengingly avant-garde or complex in structure. I also read three quarters of Blood Meridian but the unrelenting repetition of violence started to wear on me; although I found it fascinating, especially in terms of the Apache Empire. It’s hard to say why I like these books or the link between them except that they paint complicated pictures about human nature and don’t give easy answers. Anything like these, or even something out of left field is welcome.
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