/lit/ - Literature

I've never heard of any of these books.

>>20252901
no.

>>20252901
Okay, you start.

>>20252901
I take note of the books. I hope you answer when I make a thread about one of them

>>20252901
my diary desu

>>20252974
That's the point.

>>20252901
what kind of creative are we talking about? because I've got some, but a lot are just kind horror shlock with cool or unusual premises. I love that kind of shit.

>>20252974
Because no one here reads.

Gravity's Rainbow

>>20253287
shoot em off slick

I heard about the Wanting Seed from this place and I'm surprised it isn't more popular

>>20253287
Any kind of creative. I'd rather see more threads discussing 80's horror novels with the awesome hand-painted creepy covers than jerking off over high and lofty philosophy.

>>20253307
based and correct

>>20253376
>>20253457
oh no. now I've put myself under pressure...
Cassanda Khaw has great bizarro-eldritch, SEA horror books. I liked Food of the Gods.
Havemercy by Bennet is about robot dragons
Winter's Tale by Helprin takes place in a weird AU new work. There are hillbilly swamp-people samurai.
Book of Tongues is a bizarro western about a gay preacher outlaw with magic powers that consorts with an aztec goddess of the dead.
John Dies at the End, of course.
Warm Bodies is a zombie-romance, and it's surprisingly cute.
Mother Horse Eyes is interesting for it's story and it's history. It was presented as this weird ARG before it came out as a book, so that was fun.
Apocalypse Now Now- I don't actually remember most of it, except that it was weird. It takes place in south-africa and the MC may or may not be crazy, but he has to fight demons? I think? It ends with a surprise mech battle. I think.
Blood Water Paint is a biography of a dutch woman painter, and it's written entirely in verse.
Haunted Forest Tour is exactly what it sounds like.

>>20252901

>>20252901
im reading this danish book in danish and it isn't underground in denmark but just by being danish I guess it's underground by your standards. im looking at all you americans.
so it's called "tame the elite" and it's about how everybody, danes included, think the danish democracy is fuckign great, cause it is by comparison with the rest of the world
but even the best domocracy slowly degenerates under a public that is complacent, so we need to keep it good by continuously watch the elite, basically. er. i can describe it in more detail if anyone is interested...but I feel like it's sorta obvious.

>The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
Just finished this the other day, very accurate portrayal of alcoholism. The last few paragraphs are more frightening than the rest of the book combined.

>>20253592
See this stuff sounds cool as hell. How come I never see threads about stuff like this?

>>20252901
>The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Fun but not very deep.

>>20252901
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

>>20252901
Ribofunk

Helmet of Horror

>>20254504
Because this board is completely overrun by obnoxious tryhards hellbent on huffing their own farts.

>>20253592
I remember warm bodies got a movie adaptation. Ty for sharing anon, you've got good taste.

Two of my favorite books.

I realized all the books I've read that aren't at least somewhat famous also tend to suck.

>>20255440
Thank you, anon!
Yeah, warm bodies came out during the twilight craze, so I was dismissive of it with prejudice, but at some point I did watch it- and I was shocked that it's actually good, so when I saw the book I decided to pick it up. In the book, zombies get memories from the brains they eat, and regain a bit of their humanity. The MC is a zombie that falls in love with a girl, because he killed and ate her boyfriend, and gets to watch his memories. Maybe I'll read it again later.

>>20254677
>Fun but not very deep.
Who gives a fuck.

>>20254706
Sounds neat. The Steampunk Trilogy is also cool.

>>20255944
some people read to think and confront ideas rather than as a hipster Netflix substitute.

>>20252901
I was recently made aware of christus by william wadsworth longfellow and read the excerpts in my collected works of his. the first of which is a scene where satan is trying to tempt christ. I love longfellow so Im excited to read this. Had anyone else read christus? what did you think?

>>20256796
If you found nothing to think about and no ideas to confront in the Monkey Wrench Gang, then that's your problem for being a wittle brainlet, not mine.

>>20255944
me

>>20252901
I post these recommendations sometimes when it matters to the context, but never got much feedback. phenomenal books that merit reading and discussion, from my point of view:

Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki
Independent People - Halldor Laxness
The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric

>>20254504
NOBODY. HERE. READS!!!!

>>20252901
Im not sure if this counts as obscure / underground.

this book has had its home in my head for maybe a year or more now. I do not know anyone who writes as beautifully as Gass does. That is also the main drive of the book - the prose, style, words, the musicality of it all as you read it. It does not care much for its setting, or plot. the main drive of the book is its enchanting and melancholy prose. The vehicle for this is its 2 incredible characters of the meek, frail and timid Henry Pimber, and the equally frail but mad and passionate Reverend Jethro Furber.

It is a difficult and complex work, with a lot of almost incomprehensible stream of consciousness from furber, but its not as intimidating and long as Gass’s Tunnel. Anyone can read and understand the book, if it will appeal to you i of course cant promise. If you are like me - a lonely, awkward-at-life man, but who Feels incredibly strongly, i think you will find Henry and Jethro very captivating and moving characters.

Here are a few small excerpts that i loved, since the only way to truly show the book is its prose.

ps. if you do not ”vibe” with the first part - israebestis tott - you can safely skip it and come back afterward.

”His eyes are like emeralds, they said. They are green emeralds and yellow gold. That's because they're borrowed from the fire at the center of the earth and they see like signals through the dark. Then Omensetter told them of foxes' eyes: how they burn the bark from trees, put spells on dogs, blind hens, and melt the coldest snow.”

”If Brackett Omensetter had ever had the Secret of how to live, he hadn't known it. Now the difference was-he knew. Everyone at last had managed to tell him, and now like everybody else he was wondering what it was. Like everybody else.”

>>20258635
>Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki
i've seen the film of this, it's a masterpiece.

>>20260445
neither obscure nor underground yet its not discussed on lit (no one on here reads)

>>20260445
”The path took Henry Pimber past the slag across the meadow creek where his only hornbeam hardened slowly in the southern shadow of the ridge and the trees of the separating wood began in rows as the lean road in his dream began, narrowing to nothing in the blank horizon, for train rails narrow behind anybody's journey; and he named them as he passed them: elm, oak, hazel, larch and chestnut tree, as though he might have been the fallen Adam passing them and calling out their soft familiar names, as though familiar names might make some friends for him by being spoken to the unfamiliar and unfriendly world which he was told had been his paradise. In God's name, when was that? When had that been? For he had hated every day he'd lived. Ash, birch, maple. Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long and empty day to light forever; yet they sped away, the day, the night clicked past as he walked by the creek by the hornbeam tree, the elders, sorrels, cedars and the fir; for as he named them, sounding their soft names in his lonely skull, the fire of fall was on them, and he named the days he'd lost. It was still sorrowful to die. Eternity, for them, had ended. And he would fall, when it came his time, like an unseen leaf, the bud that was the glory of his birth forgot before remembered. He named the aspen, beech, and willow, and he said aloud the locust when he saw it leafless like a battlefield. In God's name, when was that? When had that been?”

Sorry for any grammar mistakes or bad writing, just wrote it quickly on phone.

>>20253615
>the revolutionary phenotype
i know this phenotype

kathy acker wrote really interesting books that play with the literary form itself but lit hates her because muh dyke
also hilda hilst

>>20252901
I've shilled this novel here for a minute. It's his masterpiece, but he has other work that's bretty good desu. Check him out. Thomas Berger