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>book recs
I'm looking for something like this but good?

>> No.9855019

>>9855015
why do you want something similar to what you don't like?

>> No.9855025

>>9855019
shut the FUCK up!

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9855028

>>9855015

Heh... let me guess... you've only ever read this book ONCE?

You call yourself a reader you son-of-a-bitch?

>> No.9855031

>>9855025
jacob hurley?

>> No.9855054

Gravity's Rainbow.

>> No.9855071

Foucault's Pendulum
Illuminatus Trilogy

>> No.9855083

>>9855015
It is good, though it does have some flaws here and there. Perhaps you could tell us what you didn't like about it, and from there I can try to craft a recommendation. Or, better yet, deliver an actual critique, especially one that doesn't conflate infinite jest with its author

>> No.9855088

>>9855071
>Foucault's Pendulum
I was under the impression that Infinite Jest was humorous

>> No.9855094

>>9855054
Never really understood the comparison, I think people just try to pigeonhole them into the same category since they're both really long and "difficult".
>>9855071
>Foucault's Pendulum
Not at all. Foucault's pendulum is about paranoia, and challenges the reader to keep up with the infodump and myriad twists and turns in the plot and conspiracy the characters are creating. This has nothing to do with IJ

>> No.9855128

Malazan: Book of the Fallen

>> No.9855488

house of leaves.