Hii, everyone! So I wanted some suggestions books that are dense not in terms of their plot or anything but with their words, complexity. Books from which I can draw inferences and would literally have to read lines again, but the i want them to be fiction such that there’s an ongoing interest so even if it’s heavy I would still wanna know how it ends
Please drop your suggestions 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
by Own-Cake2277
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Gravity’s Rainbow or Ulysses would be some good candidates.
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Just about all of Umberto Eco’s work. Difficult to get through.
not sure if this is what you’re looking for but virginia woolf’s prose can be dense and hard to understand
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Absalom, Absalom; As I Lay Dying; Finnegan’s Wake; Mason and Dixon
Infinite Jest
its short, but i felt this way about ‘the turning of the screw’ at times.
Blood meridian
Moby Dick. It’s a great book but…
I found The Vorrh by Brian Catling to be quite opaque. Beautifully written, don’t get me wrong. But I had to go back and read pages a few times to make sure I was following what was being said.
My brain’s also been melted by years of internet scrolling, so I’ve been trying to get back into reading and this may not have been the best choice. It requires your full attention.
I’ve never managed to get very far into Dracula before giving up.
Virginia Woolf! Start with Mrs. Dalloway, it’s a short banger.
Anything by Henry James.
The German philosophers, Nietzsche and Hegel are very difficult to read. You have to read everything three times before you can even begin to understand them.
salman rushdie and david foster wallace come to mind. house of leaves if you’re up for some postmodern stuff.
A Clockwork Orange. Loved that book. He made up an entire lexicon for the book and the more you read, the more context helps you understand a lot of the words.
I also think for me this served as a brain block from my mind fully imagining the violence I was reading haha. While I loved the book, I don’t think I could watch the movie
The Dark Frigate
They made me read it in school at 12 years old because I was reading at a college lexile level. Being twelve, my group and I found it INCREDIBLY boring and referred to the main character as Marshmallow (his name is Marsham) to keep ourselves sane.
However, if I were to read it again now, I do believe I’d like it. Who doesn’t love a pirate story.
It was just really, really dense