/lit/ - Literature

>>10224839

Naked Lunch

What book is that from?
I only came across
>The author of The Gospel According to Harry Potter talks about leading a friend to Christ through the wizard hero.

>>10224839
What

>>10224839
The bible

>>10224845
What’s Naked Lunch and why is it weird?

In the Realms of the Unreal

>>10224851
It’s called Bricked In

Has anyone read House of Leaves? Apparently it’s a “mind labrynth”

>>10224913

Bizarro novel by the great William S Burroughs, who used the "cut-up" method to "write" it - he typed whole pages and then actually cut up the text with scissors and rearranged the fragments. It's a story about mugwumps and jizz and misadventures. Read it.

>>10224839
>At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. CYCLONOPEDIA is a middle-eastern Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun. 'The Middle East is a sentient entity - it is alive!' concludes renegade Iranian archeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the 'lubricant' of historical and political narratives. A young American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manuscript in her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a fictional quantity all along. Meanwhile, as the War on Terror escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines, leveling cities into the desert, seducing the aggressors into the dark heart of oil ...

>>10224955
plenty of people, we had lots of thread about it back in the day

>>10224989
Sounds like the plot is a mess

>>10225018
man i tried reading CYCLONOPEDIA and it was good until it got to the fake historical exposition part and it just lost me entirely.

Rosemary's Baby.
Gave me nightmares

>>10226098
The cover reminds me of that South Park episode where they get high on cat piss

>>10226744
>>10226098
Forgot picture

>>10225897
Where in history do they go? Why is it confusing?

>>10226744
Lel. The book is crazier than the sum total of all south park episodes I do not exaggerate in the slightest.

>>10225018
I keep meaning to read this.

>every real number is a game
>you can do arithmetic, algebra, and even calculus using games
if you have the math chops to understand what the hell's going on, it's quite a ride

As for novels, The Rifles (Vollmann) was a weird one. His others might be even more out there, can't say.

>>10224839
whats the book? thats hot

>>10224839
Impressions of Africa

>>10224989
I'd rather read the toilet paper after wiping my ass.

>>10224989
Holy fuck the absolute madman
Definitely gonna check out this one

>>10224839
>>10224922
Are you the cunt who was shilling your books earlier. What a saddo

>>10224839
i don't feel so good

>>10224839
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.

>>10224839
the waves by woolf

>>10224839
Recently it's the Emigrants by Sebald

The liber al
Crowley

>>10227899
oh wait I thought it said saddest for some reason. Emigrants isn't that weird.
Weirdest is probably some esoteric shit I read after I finished Foucalt's Pendulum

V. is pretty out there.

How did Pinecone know so much obscure and bizzare shit without being able to resort to Wikipedia-skimming hackery?

The Circus of Dr. Lao is the weirdest GOOD book that I recall reading.

>>10227214
Bricked In

>>10224839
A Voyage to Arcturus
Codex Seraphinianus

Are any of these worth looking into??

>>10228870
Fifth Head of Cerberus