/lit/ - Literature

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>tell us your other 4 before I will consider even looking into this.
Anon asked me this in the last thread, in response to my assertion that A Voyage To Arcturus is in my top 5 /sffg/ books.

In no particular order, except the first being my favourite, my other top 4 are:

Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Philip K Dick - Ubik
Borges - Labyrinths

Probably doesn't help you much. It's a fairly safe list. Moreover, Lindsay's Arcturus is absolutely nothing like any of them. It's very difficult to describe... do you know how when you're reading Book of the New Sun for the first time, at certain points you have no idea what's going on, but you keep reading because of the ideas and vivid imagery and sometimes just the prose? It's sort of like that. It's essentially an exploration of philosophical/religious themes, but completely raw and fantastical.