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[Anonymous No.10859280]

/lit/ I need insight and recommendations.
What makes a work of fiction magical to you? What makes it enthralling to the point you find yourself thinking about it often?

What books have moved you this way, fiction only. I need new material for my comics and animation but don't know what fiction is really worth reading. I made the mistake of reading anthem as a result of my ignorance on the matter. Hopefully your experience can help me, and save me a lot of time. It would be truly appreciated.

[Anonymous No.10859309]

>What makes a work of fiction magical to you? What makes it enthralling to the point you find yourself thinking about it often?
I'm a serious, stone-faced person. Some books make me into someone else, into a much more emotional, much more alive person. I often feel roused to action, as if I'm poised on the brink of leaving everything behind in favor of a principle I became aware of through the work.
>What books have moved you this way, fiction only
As a kid, Tolkien.
As an adult, I've always been looking for the magical feeling, and have rarely found it, even in works I consider great. GR is amazing but not magical.
Haruki Murakami does a great job of evoking the magical feeling for me. Call me a pleb if you want, but I'm always in a funk for days after finishing his works, with one or two exceptions.
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez.
Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima. Probably my favorite book, the prose has a feeling of eeriness, prophecy, doom throughout that put a spell on me.
If poetry counts, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Different beast from all the others, but there's something quite rousing about the combination of timeless heroes and beautiful verse.
Shakespeare gives me a little of this feeling - just a little.

[Anonymous No.10859361]

>>10859309
Really appreciate your thoughts anon.
Added to the list are:
1Q84 -Murakami
100 years of Solitude -Marquez
Temple of the Golden Pavilion -Mishima
I already read homer and some other classics.

Hopefully I can get something similar. Any particular work of Murakami you enjoy?

[Anonymous No.10859374]

>>10859361
Glad to help. A Wild Sheep Chase and the sequel Dance Dance Dance are great. South of the Border, West of the Sun. 1Q84 is good too.

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