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Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:08:01 2017 No.10166453 [Reply] [Original]

What books do questionable sanity the best? Something where the protagonist maybe going insane or weird stuff maybe happening around them.

Bonus points if it involves time fuckary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:09:17 2017 No.10166460 >>10166453 notes from the underground

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:10:44 2017 No.10166465 You just described Slaughterhouse-5, although "the best" is questionable in this case.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:12:00 2017 No.10166472 >>10166465 Found slaughterhouse 5 to be incredibly boring. I don't even remember what it's about 2 years on.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:16:57 2017 No.10166492 >>10166453 12 monkeys is a pretty good movie but it does a pretty bad job of being a book seeing as it is a movie.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:29:04 2017 No.10166531 >>10166453 PhillipKDicknailsthisineverybook

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 14:52:51 2017 No.10166610 >>10166453 The Third Policeman Several Edgar Allen Poe stories are like this (i.e. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, among many many others). Beckett plays like Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Not I, among others

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 15:46:18 2017 No.10166798 File: 477 KB, 960x904, 1489699822351.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10166453 There are sequences in Infinite Jest that do this pretty well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:46:11 2017 No.10166973 >>10166453 If you don't mind shitty, pulpy, short stories you might enjoy 'The Repairer of Reputations'

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:47:13 2017 No.10166977 >>10166453 Henry James: The Turn of the Screw is a classic for this

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 22:02:02 2017 No.10167839 >>10166977 This is a great example, although I found his style to be a bit dry at times. Worth reading the story though, he crafts terror/mystery quite well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 22:05:39 2017 No.10167847 >>10166610 the third policeman is GOAT obligatory: TCLo49. wouldn't be a /lit/ thread without the pynch!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 22:36:34 2017 No.10167934 >>10166453 fugg why is the dube in the gaygaygay costume blag :3:3

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 23:53:47 2017 No.10168166 >>10166460 If autistic sociopathy falls under "questionable sanity" then definitely

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