/lit/ - Literature

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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy is so nonchalantly obscene that you can miss how terrible the things described are. Clearly inspired by Ed Gein. It's not on the level of Blood Meridian or The Crossing, but it's still McCarthy.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick is pretty good. Not exactly creepy, mostly just really conceptually weird sci-fi.
Kill 'Em All by Ryan Green. Not particularly well written, but the content is compelling. A more studied nonfiction account of the Karl Panzram story that doesn't just take his autobiography for granted. It's almost amusing how extreme his life story is.
Edward Lee if you're retarded and enjoy tryhard descriptions of gore and sexual violence.

>concisely describe the point of a book or it's bad
If you can concisely express the "point" of something, then it didn't need to be a book. It should've been a bullet point list of statements. The entire reason literature exists isn't to candy coat propaganda, it's to illustrate things that are best embodied through the demonstrative, abstract medium of narrative, not through the confines of mere language. It's how you say something that can't just be said. A great work of literature will typically have outright contradictions in it that will undermine drawing up a clear "point," anyway.