I loved The Terror, it was my favorite read of last year.
I loved it so much that I went out and bought a copy of his novel Drood, and now that one has been staring at me from the shelf. I’m hesitating over it because I haven’t actually read much Dickens and I’d never even heard of Wilkie Collins.
I am reading “Infinite Jest” about a third in. Anything by David Foster Wallace is a pleasure to read, and I mean anything: fiction or not, for instance those articles he wrote for Harpers Magazine are hilarious, insightful and .. depressing.
Jorge Luis Borges ? have read everything by him, in Spanish of course, but his poems. Actually I have read some of his poems and are quite good IMHO
There is always an excuse to put off what we really don’t want to do, but we think we ought to. Just don’t do it. Simple.
Moby Dick? a great book, read the Penguin edtion. Good footnotes and introduction. As all masterpieces, flawed. But some chapters are brilliant. Melville was ahead of his time, a precusor of modernists such as James Joyce.