Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post
See I'd love to be able to read stuff like this but I struggle with it massively, if you've got any exceptional recommendations let me know cuz I'd love to get stuck into a book like those.

I'm in the middle of "the war of the end of the world" by Mario Vargos Llosa at the moment, it's fucking brilliant but I keep having to take breaks from it cuz it's a fucking monster of a book

I'm also reading "Ghost Story" by Peter Straus which has started off great

I've also got to get through

Brand new world - Aldous Huxley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The demolished man - Alfred Bester
The woman in white - Willkie Collins
Pale Fire - Nabakov
Sweetheart sweetheart - someone I can't remember
And another one or two that I'm waiting to be delivered

Should be enough to keep me busy
I was never able to read Catch 22 all the way through, I found it very dull. The movie was boring too, with poor attempts at humor, so I turned it off after about 30 minutes.

Brave New World wasn't bad, but there are better science fiction novels. I read it a long time ago.

The others you mentioned I've never even heard of.

Some I'd recommend: Pillars of the Earth and Armageddon mentioned above, as well as Napoleon's Russian Campaign which I read last year.