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All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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181 points ohjeez | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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russellbeattie ◴[15 Oct 24 21:40 UTC] No.41853399[source]▶
What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them.

Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1):

  Fitzgerald
  Hemingway ++
  Shakespeare ++
  Christie ++
  Brown ++
  Dickens
  McCarthy ++
  Wodehouse ++
  Steinbeck ++
  Stoppard
  Kafka
  Conan Doyle ++
  Seuss (of course) ++
  Lee
A missing classic author is Robert Louis Stevenson - all his books are amazing, even 150 year later.

If you've read more than one Dickens novel, you have my deepest respect.

1. https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/

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chadcmulligan ◴[15 Oct 24 22:02 UTC] No.41853570[source]▶
A friend of mine has been reading Ulysses since 2022, I've stopped asking him about it.
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1. ProllyInfamous ◴[16 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41858247[source]▶
Since 2022, I'm [only] on page 400 of Infinite Jest (D.F.Wallace). In particular, the intoxicated flashbacks (with no paragraph breaks for ppaaggeess) just make it difficult to plow through...

Meanwhile, I've concurrently read 70+ other "lesser" classics (i.e. less than Jest's 1300 pages + citations) in those same two years. This includes all of Vonnegut, most of Steinbeck, and half of Gárcia Marquéz.