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ITT, we list some ideas, literary movements, themes, etc. that we are interested in, and posters recommend books that encapsulate the spirit of the aforementioned.
(we just had this thread, i know)
Things I like:
>Joe R. Lansdale
>Crime fiction ( focused on the criminals, not a detective, like the comic Stray Bullets)
>Historical fiction
>Martin McDonagh

A book I would like is:

>> No.6851989

>>6850215
>crime fiction

In cold blood tbh

I'm into sex, motivational works that avoid romantic tones, and gossip

>> No.6852001

>>6850215
Mongolian Complot

>> No.6852023

techno-primitivism

>> No.6852063

Setting: Africa

>> No.6852126
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>metafiction
>science fiction

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>Stirner
>Nietzsche
>Camus
>Marx

>> No.6852166

Twitter as literature

>> No.6852169

Pulp Yakuza stories. Or really anything set in a busy Japanese city that isn't high school anime tier. I need inspiration for side missions.

>>6852166
Totalitarianism in the Tundra

>> No.6852186

>>6852169
Pretty much everything by Murakami

>> No.6852189
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>>6852126
>science fiction
Dune
Forever War
The Stars my Destination
A Canticle for Lebowitz

>> No.6852196

>>6852169
Ryu murakami

>> No.6852218

>>6850215

For A New Liberty - Rothbard
Family Happiness and Other Stories - Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Kafka

I really enjoy Kafka so any recommendations on that type of literature would be appreciated.

>> No.6852227

>>6852218
"that type"

read camus

>> No.6852251

>>6852227

Thanks, I just had a look at his works and they look really interesting. More literature to add to the wish list.

>> No.6852451

>>6850215
>Lansdale
>Crime fiction
>Martin McDonagh


Read Donald E. Westlake, funny dialogues, crimes and a lot of interesting stuff

>> No.6852567

>>6852126
If you're into metafiction and want something a bit different have you heard of Joseph McElroy.

He writes science-fiction and post-modern stuff and I think you might like him for some reason. His first book, A Smuggler's Bible, goes to some strange places and could maybe be considered meta.

Another of his works, Plus, is just very solid science-fiction. His work is a bit odd and should stretch your mind a bit but he's also very good.

Gene Wolfe and Phillip K. Dick are also good science-fiction writer's who get particularly clever with their work. To try their stuff I'd recommend reading The Fifth Head of Cerberus for Wolfe and The Man in the High Castle for Dick if you're interested.

>> No.6852584

>>6852567
seconding Gene Wolfe.
BotNS is the best sci-fi series ever imho

>> No.6852800

marx's labor theory of value

>> No.6852926

I would like a fantasy book with a mythological feel if you get me.

Considered going for the Thomas covenant series?


Also something a bit like brave new world in feel. Idk something about the feel atmosphere / prose was great I want to experience something similar

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>>6852926

>> No.6853037

>>6853027
Thx . Could you describe it a little?

>> No.6853051

>>6852166
American Dust, by Jumba Dunn. As far as I know it's made up by real conversations so.

>>6852169
Seconding Ryu Murakami. Tokyo Soup is great. Also probably Miike if you like movies, and I Am a Hero if you like manga. Yes, zombie stuff but it's great and the first two issues are set in a busy city. Really, it's one of the best things to come out of Japan in the last few years.

>>6852926
American Gods: constant namedropping from all the pantheons, and the story itself feels weirdly mythical. The writing isn't amazing though, but not bad. Also, Good Omens (Pratchett&Gaiman) may be up your alley.

I want to read a decent horror book, the more recent the better.

>> No.6853062

>>6853037

HOW BOUT u fuckin google it, spoonfeeding bitch.

>> No.6853066

>>6853062

this tbh la

>> No.6853078

>>6851989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuHfVn_cfHU

>>6852218
Krasznahorkai Laszlo

>>6850215
>Historical fiction
The bloody poet Nero, Kosztolanyi
The death of Virgil, Broch

>>6852063
Impressions of Africa, Roussel

>> No.6853086

>>6853051
Ryu Murakami made a few movies too, Tokyo Decadence is boner-worthy

>> No.6853091

>>6852023
Arguably Hakim Bey's TAZ, if you take it in a cyberpunk direction and ignore the fact he hates when people do that.

>> No.6853165

>>6853062
Faggot

>> No.6853168

>>6853062
Plus I don't wanna search it and end up finding spoilers

>> No.6853399

>>6853051
>I want to read a decent horror book, the more recent the better.
Ligotti. Only author that has scared me rather than unsettled me. He has some pretty gruesome/depressing nonfiction (Conspiracy Against the Human Race) but his fiction shorts are great

>> No.6853413

>>6850215

East European surrealism(specifically Czech and Hungarian stuff)
Japanese sci-fi, surrealism and classic works
>>6852063

Journey to the End of the Night, some portions of it do take place there but not the entire novel.

>> No.6853418

>Catatonic Expressionist Cheese Danishes
>New Insincerity
>Bumblecore

>> No.6853423

>>6853413
You've got my exact tastes. Absolute exactly.

Have you read Shinichi Hoshi for Japanese sci-fi? And I'm sure you must know Twisted Spoon Press.

>> No.6853438

>>6853423

The only book I've read from Twisted Spoon Press is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, enjoyed it a lot since I'm a fan of the film but pretty happy to own that since it's now going out of print and copies are getting hard to find. I'm willing to buy some more from them.

Hoshi I've never heard of but I'll look into his works, I know Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Japan Sinks! are getting English releases next year so I'm looking forward to reading those.

>> No.6853457

Death Grips
Italian horror movies
Morally ambiguous westerns (pls no blood meridian)

>> No.6853458

>>6853438
You've gotta get more from TSP. They are the bastion of Central European surrealism. I would recommend the Ladislav Klima, Ewald Murrer, the other Nezval book, Bruno Jasienski, Stasiuk and Tokarczuk.

>> No.6853464

>>6853457
Burroughs' last trilogy. Read Cities of the Red Night earlier this month and was fucking great, one of his best books. Place of Dead Roads came in the mail just a couple hours ago, looks cool so far.

Also, Ti West.

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>>6853457
The Beetle Leg

>> No.6853467

>>6853464
Thanks

I don't really fuck too hard with Ti West honestly. But the only thing of his I remember seeing is House of the Devil, which I loved on the first watch and then found very hollow on a second viewing.

>> No.6853473

>>6853466
Thanks

>> No.6853482

>>6853467
Yeah, some thing for me, but I watched The Innkeepers last thing and i thought it was a pretty sweet movie, similar in spirit to old giallos. Only thing lacking was their amazing photography/colors, I hope someone brings them back soon.

>> No.6853491

>>6853482
That's on my list, I'll have to check it out soon. I've been going through a huge list of horror form the '20s to today, I'm in the '50s now and I was actually very pleased with the Val Lewton RKO horrors of the '40s. If you like psychological low budget stuff you should check those out. They destroyed Universal horror films as a franchise.

Also Roger Corman's The Beast with a Million Eyes is really good shit. It's on Netflix, there's some really cool surreal, allegorical shit going on before it goes insanely anti-Commie (which I think was mostly a joke, anyway).

>> No.6853493

>>6853458

After searching on Amazon I already like the sound of a few of them, definitely going to get them next time I order, also you should check out Pushkin Press. I recommend Antal Szerb, he's kind of underrated but his stuff is pretty fun if you enjoy surrealism.

But yeah, I'll definitely order a couple books from Twisted Spoon, you should read Karinthy's Metropole, I think you'd enjoy the novel. It's kind of like Tom Hank's The Terminal crossed which uses a lot of common tropes that Kafka does, alienation, paranoia, etc. Very cool book.

Also should've noted I'm interested in old horror too and Dying Earth, I know there are Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance for Dying Earth but I don't know a whole deal more, I've been interested in getting William Hope Hodgson's The Night Lands since I enjoyed House on the Borderland quite a lot.

>> No.6853512

>>6852063
Oroonoko (First half) - Behn
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa - Nicholl

>>6852126
Roadside Picnic

>>6852926
The Odyssey (obligatory)
Asking for a mythological/BNW atmosphere hybrid is a tough request

>> No.6853513

>>6853493
Yes, I love Pushkin Press's stuff! I just made a recent order with several from their classics line. They're like a UK version of NYRB Classics. I read Metropole several years back.

We've really got the same taste. I'm about to go into the Book of the Long Sun for Wolfe, and I couldn't get enough of the Dying Earth series for Vance.

I hope The Night Land goes well. I liked House on the Borderland too. So many scenes that stick with you. If you haven't seen it before, I use http://greatsfandf.com/ all the time for finding great sci-fi and fantasy.

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>plant-based food, seafood, tea
>hiking, private cross country running
>liszt haircut, wax, shampoo, conditioner, trimmer, moisturizer, toothpaste, floss, antiperspirant, fragrance
>monochrome hiking apparel
>homer, greek tragedy, holy bible, virgil, holy quran, shakespeare, goethe
>pre-platonics, epicurus, machiavelli, montaigne, bacon, nietzsche
>leonardo, michelangelo, cellini, raphael
>palestrina, bach, mozart, beethoven

>> No.6853902

>>6852126
Flann O'Brien is great for metafiction, with Irish wit.

>> No.6853921

>>6853413
the wiki has nice Eastern surrealism in the "surrealism" chart
Csáth Géza I'd say.

>>6853457
the plebeian handbook

>>6853897
blogspot

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>Any thing in which the ocean plays an important role.
>Preferably with the characters on land and the book analyzing their relation with the ocean both physically and emotionally
>preferably fiction

pic related

>> No.6855277

bump

>> No.6855294

Has there been any books similar to In Search of Lost Time?

>> No.6855297

>>6850215
explorations of mediocrity like death of a salesmen

>> No.6855332

>>6855294
Sprawling mess of a masterpiece?
Musil's Man Without Qualities/Mann Ohne Eigenschaften

>> No.6855457

>>6855294
my struggle by karl ove knausgård

>> No.6855469

>>6853979
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson (not kidding)
Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

>> No.6855494

>>6853413
Urmuz, Max Blecher, Vitezslav Nezval (Valerie), Gelu Naum, Gherasim Luca (Passive Vampire), Mircea Cartarescu (Blinding), Kobo Abe (Woman in the dunes, Ark sakura)

>> No.6855514

>>6853979
>tfw you read The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea thinking it would be some great ocean epic only to find out its about bratty kids on land.

>> No.6855908

Deeply spiritual but not explicitly Christian/Jewish/Muslim books

>>6850215
I, Claudius

>> No.6856115

>>6852163
Evola

>> No.6856123

>>6852166
Tao Lin, the collected tweets

>> No.6856137

>>6852926
Look for myths that warn against hedonism. There are several in the Bible.

>> No.6856141

>>6853897
The Ego And It's Own

>> No.6857141

>>6852189
>Sci Fi
>The Road

Im sorry, what?

>> No.6858021

>>6855908
BoTNS

>> No.6858061

>>6858021
>BoTNS
>not explicitly Christian

>> No.6858065

>Religion
>Mythology
>Perversion
>Herman Melville
>Franz Kafka
>Mikhail Bulgakov
>Kurt Vonnegut
>Vladimir Nabokov
>Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing
>Mouse Guard
>Bible
>All history
>Any movement
>Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, general combat philosophy
>Marcus Aurelius

>> No.6858085

>>6853457
Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R Lansdale.
>>6852926
Anything Robert E Howard, specifically Tower of the Elephant and Queen of the Black Coast
>>6852218
I find Melville to be very similar in his themes and imagery
>>6852126
Breakfast of Champions, Galapagos, and Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
>>6852001
Wrath of the Khans (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast)

>> No.6858371

>>6853921
>>6856141
Serious responses please.

>> No.6858413

>>6856115
*Ebola

>> No.6858418

Smalltown settings
>Everyone knows Everyone

>> No.6858429

>>6852166
Hodja Naseeruddin stories
http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~schiff/Net/front.html

>> No.6858436

>Heavy on characters, plotting
>Witty

>> No.6858470

Chiastic structure

>> No.6858574

>>6858065
War and war

>> No.6859729

>>6858371
What is wrong with Stirner?

>> No.6859733

BVMP

>> No.6861442

>Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Enough said

>> No.6861477

>>6852251
Wishlist? I think you can find "The Myth of Sisyphus" somewhere for free.

>> No.6862891

crazy people [often on drugs]:
fear and loathing in las vegas
cosmic banditos
inherent vice

>> No.6862898

Sex as God

>> No.6862964

This might sound silly, but is there any philosophical or literary movement about how you ahould enjoy life to the fullest even though it's really shitty?

>> No.6863467

>>6862964
read Zappfe

>> No.6864859

>>6858065

>Herman Melville
>Bible

Blood Meridian

>Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

His run on Miracleman

>> No.6864943

>Cosmic horror
>Body horror
>Hard sci-fi
>Association between sex and death
>Moral ambiguity in ostensibly good vs. evil narratives e.g. Allied firebombings in WWII
>Proustian interest in the very specific nuances of subjective experience
>How almost incomprehensibly different the mindset of the average person was even in ostensibly modern eras e.g. marriage in the 50s
>On-the-ground accounts of historical events, e.g. The goriness and cosmic irony of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
>Math and science as poetry of reason
>Beauty in violence a la Blood Meridian
>Surrealism
>Hyperrealistic gore

GR and Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones are already on my to-read list. I want moar after, pls and thx

>> No.6865379

>>6864943

Godammit why am I always the last poster lately

>> No.6865392

>>6852126
John Barth's The End of the Road

>> No.6865612

>>6858574
Thanks
>>6864859
I've heard great things about his run on Miracle man. Heard the same for Blood Meridian. Thanks a bunch, anon.

>> No.6865764

>>6853897

American Psycho?

>> No.6866515

Lols, this thread has been up for 4 days. Hows about a 5th?

>> No.6866680

>>6858436
Raymond Chandler's novels

>> No.6866688

>>6857141
Its speculative

>> No.6867010

>>6865764
I read that already and thought it was very funny. My greentext didn't contain any references to the business world or social status though. Bateman has shit taste in the arts and chooses to go to the gym and expensive restaurants instead of climbing mountains and eating modest plant-foods.

>> No.6867052

>>6862891
Antonin Artaud

>>6864943
La littérature et le mal (and everything Bataille)

>> No.6867062

>Well written characters and dialogues
>sardonic humour

>> No.6867068

>>6852063
needs an acacia tree at sunset on the cover for sure

>> No.6867130

>>6864943
>Proustian interest in the very specific nuances of subjective experience
Fernando Pessoa

>> No.6867311

>>6867062
Tom Holt aka K.J. Parker (if you also like fantasy)

>> No.6867991

>>6852126
Look up Jack Vance's The Last Castle

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>>6850215
>Heidegger
>Prussia
>Forests
>modernism

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>>6850215
Techo-phobia
Radical politics (right or left)
Swords

>> No.6868167

>>6858418
English police stories maybe
>>6858470
Paradise Lost
>>6862891
>Approaches by Ernst Jünger (rare)
>The Doors of Perception

>> No.6868228

>>6852063
Ryszard Kapuscinski, guy had several bestselling, acclaimed novels on Africa. Defies the "colonial/post-colonial" division, just a chill, open-minded journalist that had the funds to travel back in the '60-'80.

>> No.6868308

Short stories devoid of a deeper meaning or excitement. Descriptions of events.

>> No.6868313

>>6868308
newspaper articles

>> No.6868341

Conspiracy fiction

Kind of like the Angels and Demons series but good.

>> No.6868437

>>6868313
Forgot to mention should be fictional events.
But then again maybe same answer, i do enjoy newspapers though, mostly the cartoons.

>> No.6868599

>>6868308
magic treehouse series

>> No.6869016
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Mitch Hedberg
Doug Stanhope
Dylan Moran
Charlie Brooker


shitty comedy in general

>> No.6869633

>>6868139

>Techno-phobia
>Radical politics

Industrial Society and Its Future

>> No.6869654

>>6868308

Marie Calloway

>> No.6869977

>>6869633
ted chiang

>> No.6870022

>>6858418
our town - thornton wilder

>> No.6870029

>>6862891
flash, ou le grand voyage

>> No.6870034

>>6868341
Umberto Eco

>> No.6870043

>>6868341
The crying of lot 49

>> No.6870069

Cyberpunk and Biopunk

>> No.6870179

>>6868139

LotR :^)