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I'm looking for good surreal/trandsendental/psychadelic/mind-fuck liturature.

>> No.2011020

i know i misspelled literature

>> No.2011026

Some lousy faggot will recommend "House of Leaves," then this thread will 404.

Might as well end it now, OP.

>> No.2011031

i've already read house of leaves, gravity's rainbow, and most of murakami. i was looking for some REAL shit

>> No.2011040

house of leaves it good

>> No.2011051

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

>> No.2011053

Labyrinths - Borges

might be too real 4 u op

>> No.2011054

>>2011051
I love Dubliners.

>> No.2011057

The Stranger by Albert Camus, maybe? You'll be left with a solid "wtf."

>> No.2011058

I got house of leaves for this purpose, got about half way in and though good I got tired of carrying it around so I went back to reading cheap scifi on my kindle, yes technology made me not read a book but it was heavy and when walking to work, the school, the home a 4 lbs. book on top of about 25lbs of school materials add up

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I saw OP's maze pic and instantly thought of House of Leaves

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2011081

Look no further comrade

>> No.2011088

Since you wrote 'mind-fuck', I'll assume that you are underaged, and will probably like RANDOMXD trash like Tao Lin or DFW.

>> No.2011096

>>2011088
>RANDOMXD trash
>DFW
2/10

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2011130

did someone say "mind fuck"

>> No.2011133

Flann O'Brian - The Third Policeman

>> No.2011140

Illuminatus! Trilogy.

>> No.2011141

>>2011053
>>2011053
>>2011053
>>2011053
This.

Fuck, you posted a picture of a labyrinth. Pynchon and House of Leaves owe a huge debt to Borges.

>> No.2011144

>>2011057
Wait, really? Like, you're being serious?

Anyway, try Woolf's Waves.

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2011199

Also maybe look into Kobo Abe, OP.

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THIS IS HOW GAY YOUR LABYRINTH IS OP

>> No.2011308

Kafka

/thread

>> No.2011319

>>2011016
Nude Launch

>> No.2011362

>no Philip K. Dick
Where did all the PKD fanboys go? /lit/ used to be full of them!

Anyway, here are some books that will fuck your mind:
Ubik
The Man in the High Castle
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
VALIS

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2011371

Thanks OP, I love mazes

>> No.2011374

Carlos Castaneda, the Teachings of Don Juan
>no, not that Don Juan. it's a book filled about tripping on peyote with a shaman in the Mexican desert

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>>2011362
I thought our kind died off, thank you.
Also A Maze of Death

>> No.2011399

Finnegans Wake

Brekkek kekkek kekkek kekkek koax koax koax

>> No.2011400

Check out Kobo Abe and Matthew Stokoe, you'll like them.

>> No.2011482

it looks like this thread is about to die...

>> No.2011490

>>2011399
Uluaoluah! or however that's spelled

>> No.2011493

>>2011482
Did you still need more recommendations or something? There's already been like a dozen books mentioned.

>> No.2011540

>>2011493
I read alot
(smoke alot of green, drink coffe, do speed pretty regularly)