Ok, a couple more recommendations, then.
The Fall - Albert Camus. A fascinating, short novella that's basically a 200-page monologue, of a character telling a story over the course of a couple days to two guys he meets in a bar who are just there as listeners. No back and forth, no action, just one long monologue. And, it's fascinating.
I guess, thinking to other novels that are really carried by the strength of their narrator, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita comes to mind - it's a story whose main character is a pedophile, yet Nabokov actually manages to humanize him. I know, doesn't sound like much of a recommendation, but trust me here.
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those are all excellent series. I vastly prefer saga to Y (largely because the ending was very disapppointing imo). If you like preacher you should check out Garth Ennis's run on the Punisher or his series Crossed (which is hands down one of the gnarliest comics ever made). Matt Millar's Nemesis and Super series are also really great if you like messed up dark humor.
The only good newer punisher series imo is the war machine series. It's a lot of fun to see frank get the war machine suit and rip through baddies even easier. Ennis did a recent return to punisher with punisher platoon, but it feels like a retread of his work with punisher born (which is a cool look into the character's past).
sex criminals, southern bastards and Fatale/Kill or be Killed are some of my favorite series i've read in the last few years besides saga or revival. if you dig brubaker's stuff like Fatale you might dig jason aaron's series Scalped. it's basically a western noir/crime drama set on an indian reservation.
Yeah I'm not super up to snuff on newer stuff besides Southern Bastards/Sex Criminals. I've heard Monstress is a really good series. Same with Nailbiter.
Honestly, Gravity's Rainbow might be worth a second look. I won't deny it was kind of a slog to get through the first time I read it - there's a lot of pieces to keep straight, for one, and the narrative sort of (intentionally, I'd argue) self-destructs as the book goes on. At a minimum, it's weird as hell, with all the weird sex and song and dance routines and whatnot.
I LOVE Hemingway, but "The Old Man and the Sea" reads like a parody of Hemingway, probably because he was busy drinking himself to death on double frozen strawberry daquiris down in the Keys at the time he wrote it. "A Farewell to Arms" was good, as was "For Whom the Bell Tolls," but IMO "The Sun Also Rises," his first, was his best, by a long shot. His short fiction is great, too.
