/lit/ - Literature

>>14210491


3/5 bait because you got replies. This will be much better bait with the following changes:
Take out out Harry Potter and Perdido Street Station
Add an "Acceptable" 3/5 rating that contains a single genuine classic such as "The King of Elfland's Daughter", "Jurgen", "The Worm Ouroboros", or Lud-in-the-Mist".
American Gods can stay because that's the actual bait, but with these changes fewer anons will get spooked by the obviousness of it all.

>>14135921
Any good slightly obscure Cyberpunk book recommendations? I've read a good amount of the more popular ones (Neuromancer, Snow Crash and Altered Carbon etc.)

When Gravity Fails is good so far, I'm enjoying the hard-boiled noir tone of the book and the setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Gravity_Fails
Synopsis:
>A series of brutal murders soon begins to panic the Budayeen, and Audran is almost executed by Friedlander Bey, who at first considers him to be the killer. He is then forced by the centuries-old Bey to become his investigator, and even worse, is made to subject himself to extensive, partly experimental cybernetic modifications; an advanced form of the brain "wiring" he has dreaded before.

>While the killer or killers step by step and very brutally begin wiping out witnesses as well as acquaintances of Audran, he tries to uncover clues to their nature and to the link between the seemingly unconnected victims. Meanwhile, he is fighting his fears of inadequacy in the face of a killer who obviously uses "moddies" making him into some of the most feared and bestial serial killers of history.