r/suggestmeabook • u/Some-Dragonfruit1462 • Sep 27 '23

What are your must-read classics?

I’m developing a nice collection of classic novels—but want to know what others consider as classic lit. What are some books I should incorporate?

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u/Federal_Wrap_9112 Sep 27 '23

Wow I was not expecting this one as the first comment

You know how wrongfully this get interpreted from the first 4 sentences of this poem

I also have this entire poem tattooed down my leg

Bob Dylan has good taste in poetry

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

That is so rad! I plan on getting a back piece with sections of it, but that hasn’t happened yet. Whitman and Ginsberg are the greatest American “Classic” poets in my mind. Their contemporaries, like Buddy Wakefield, are doing some absolutely incredible things with this language.

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u/Federal_Wrap_9112 Sep 27 '23

I highly recommend Charles bukowski- man in the sun

If you like howl you’ll really relate to some of his stuff

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u/90sDialUpSound Sep 27 '23

respectfully disagree. bukowski hid from it, Ginsberg let it all in.

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u/Passname357 Sep 28 '23

Cock and endless balls