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what are the best books you have read that you think are underappreciated or unknown

>> No.10369499

some really weird one I found in dollar tree that was about a platypus and was just animals but though it was in Australia it had a Western feel to the book

>> No.10369518

The German Prisoner
Boy

both are by James Hanley; his writing style is kind of awkward but idk to me it feels very genuine which shows through it
German Prisoner especially influenced me a lot and I didn't even realize it until I reread it years later after HS

>> No.10369538

>>10369518
it sounds interesting. is he at all prolific

>> No.10369594

>>10369487
i own this but i havent read it yet...looks like theres a bloodstain on the pages (bought it used)

>> No.10369611

>>10369538
he wrote quite a few works but unfortunately I have only read the two I mentioned, I hear some of his other stuff is bretty gud though and I am interested in reading it, just haven't got around to it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanley_(novelist)#Bibliography

>> No.10369617

infinite jest

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>>10369617

>> No.10369665

>>10369617
you have come to this thread and said this shit three times now

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Slogging, dense, intentionally obscured by an external narrator, but makes for great reading in music theory and WW2 metaphor. Arguably the most modernist piece Mann has done (Venedig being the exception) rather than his bourgeois humanist literature. Or it could just be summarized in the /lit/ fashion:
>Is Leverkuhn, Faust, Schoenberg, Hitler, ME? Teehee, I'll never tell!

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Everything by Erskin Caldwell, at least on /lit/

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There's something about it that keeps drawing me back. I've re-read it more than any other book. One of my favorites.

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>> No.10370457

>>10370435
i read about 60 pages of this, felt like too much was being lost in translation

>> No.10370514

>>10369487
Outside of parts of /lit/ and high academia: The Recogntions

>> No.10370517

>>10370457
That's sad to hear

>> No.10370570

Boat to Redemption, Su Tong

Been some time since I read it but it captures the pain I love to read in a good tragedy, however Su Tong cannot write dialogue properly so the visual noise per paragraph can make tracking who is speaking more difficult than need be.
He has other good stuff and even got a movie and such made from his book Raise the Red Lantern, which I admittedly have not read