/lit/ - Literature

>>11024734
Go back to /int/ autistic lain-poster. NO ONE LIKES YOU.

>>11024734
the third policeman by o'brien
the invention of morel by bioy-casares

Probably something from PKD

>>11024734
Anything that's boring tbqh

baudrillard

Lain fucking sucks

>Whatever - Houellebecq

>>11024781
Would you like to offer an argument?

what's the FLCL of /lit/

>>11024734
messy, confusing nonsense, where the plot does exist but is only barely alluded to, and where the appeal is more the style and atmosphere?

Any modernist work.
try joyce

Unironically Nick Land

neuromancer. both have the theme of the matrix/wired evolving into an omnipotent state

>>11024885
The wired didn't evolve, it was just connected to the thing that connects every human being unconsciously.

>>11024893
what the fuck is the difference?

is the wired supposed to be the internet? xD

>>11024885
I'd say Neuromancer's out, if only because of the nature of the reveal and the tying of loose ends.

Maybe Felt Meanings of the World for a drier read, Gardens of the Moon for fantasy/anthropology, Dervish House for sci-fi, Aria for /tg/, Magic: History/Theory/Practice by Doc Schertel (annotated by Hitler, no less) for non-fic, and Wizard of the Crow for /lit/.
>WotC does have a more cheerful disposition than Lain, but it's fuckey.

If you want silly/mindfuck try Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect if it's still kicking around in some archive somewhere on the net.

>>11024869
can anime fans give a plot/theme/feel for what this is because it's hard to recommend books for weeb titles you've never seen?

>>11024869
Ready Player One

>Downloaded the philosophies of men from Aristotle to Zhuangzhi into my giant gigabrain and can parse the most difficult of philosophical works with ease, can barely hoist my gigabrain up in the morning
>Still don't get Lain

>>11024910
I was going to argue against you because I believe Lain's the collective unconscious present in the wired and not some naturally evolved consciousness born by the wired, but since Eiri gave her free will and sentience, you can say she technically did evolve from the state she was in.

>>11024913
Ironic shitposting is just shitposting

>>11024927
Not really existentialist, but a mindfuck-based polysemous interpretation of being/living/perspective, mixed into a sombre slice of life feel.

The Nihon term is "psycho=drama."
It includes things like Psychopass, GITS, Ergo Proxy, Ranpo Kitan, Madoka Magica, Boku Dake ga Inamachai, some say Dennou Coil, but that's pushing it into more cheery stuff.

Sometimes Higurashi and Mirai Nikki are included, too.

>TL;DR Sorry, I don't know enough of the Occident to have an articulated equivalent for books.

>>11024933
Dubs don't shill.

>>11024977
>gives more titles instead of explaining what FLCL is
if the first bit relates to FLCL, then Invention of Morel might be okay for you too, but it relies on a technological device, so if it is not sci-fi and still needs to have mindfucks from double meaning, and slice of life:
>early Waugh
>Saki
They are humorous though so YMMV if you need it to be just darkness and not dark with humour, and Waugh is the more sombre of the two if you need more darkness. Saki writes short stories. Both about British upper classes. Neither are overall happy.

Give more details and someone might get closer. Or maybe a fellow anime watcher would be more help.

>>11024734

... the religion of the "Logos." It is faith in the "Creator Spiritus,"...

live a faith that comes from the "Logos," from creative reason

>>/lit/image/hagAEI1J-cR9paA1_tUBLA

>>11025017
>Explicity stated I don't know enough of Western thought to articulate what it is, other than the actual title of the genre.

None of that related to FLCL, which is considered happy-go-lucky lessons in moral absolutism and the universality of weirdness in coming of age stories. What I wrote pertained to Lain.

Idk if you think I'm OP or some other poster though. >>11024926 isn't too far off I think.

>>11025039
Oh? Life/reality as a game of creative reasoning?
Are you talking ARP, or flipping from 1st to 3rd Person?

>>11025062
>None of that related to FLCL, which is considered happy-go-lucky lessons in moral absolutism and the universality of weirdness in coming of age stories
Sounds like Waugh's Decline and Fall

>>11025062
>What I wrote pertained to Lain.
>Idk if you think I'm OP or some other poster
I was responding to FLCL anon so I could find out what FLCL is and recommend him books.

What's the Sora no Woto of /lit/erature?

>>11025077
Oh, now I get it.

Any suggestions for a sombre atmosphere'd psychological drama, à la mindfuck? The Lain thing has me curious. Only thing I can think of is maybe Gene Wolfe/Book of the New Sun if that even counts as /lit/, though it's pretty straightforward. Sum by Eagleman but that's real iffy.

>>11025144
That's a generic military-harem anime, Oliver Twist if you want to go with young male MC. Ulysses for military, but Joyce is ever a patrician choice. 1434 if you don't mind China & historical fiction over strictly /lit/. Uhuru Street if you just want the slice of life aspect.