/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12200340]

ITT: books you’re pretty sure no one else has read.
For me, it’s “The Vorrh” by Brian Catling. I’m not even sure if it’s a good book or not, but the premise is great. Takes place in the Congo during colonial times, but is mixed with odd advanced technology (robots) and mythical creatures (a cyclops) and involved trekking into the jungle (called The Vorrh)

[Anonymous No.12200351]

>>12200340
I listened to the Bookworm episode with this author about this series. Seemed pretty cool so it’s on my wishlist. Do you like it or not?

[Anonymous No.12200359]

>>12200351
Honestly I can’t give you an opinion on it. The entire time I read it I was like “what the fuck am I reading?” But I kept going because of the world building. I would say give it a shot. I believe the author is a poet by trade and this was his first attempt at writing a novel, so the writing style can be odd.

[Anonymous No.12200371]

>>12200340
I want to read this, since I've heard Alan Moore praise it and he generally has pretty good taste, plus I heard that the sequel goes deep into William Blake territory.

[Anonymous No.12200380]

>>12200371
Yeah, I haven’t gotten to the sequels. There are lots of historical characters in it. In the first book Eadward Muybridge is a character and he was important in the development of photography

[Anonymous No.12200420]

This was interesting. A lot of stuff about hypnosis and disappearances and people pretending to be what they're not.

[Anonymous No.12200521]

capital

[Anonymous No.12200538]

The entirety of the butt wars series

[Anonymous No.12200564]

>>12200538
...sorry, the what?

[Anonymous No.12200589]

>>12200340
I believe I am one of the few individuals in this world who took the time to read the longest novel ever written, the legendary Smash Bros fanfic.
If you are a fan of Smash Bros and enjoy reading fanfics, I guarantee you will enjoy this one

[Anonymous No.12200605]

>>12200340
"On 'Not Three Gods'" by Gregory of Nyssa

[Anonymous No.12200619]

>>12200340

Yeah I've read that. It made me viscerally angry how fucking shit it was. The premise was good like you said, which is why I picked it up, but jesus christ every subplot was bad, especially the one with Muybridge and that African girl whose only reason for existing was to serve as a sex slave trope.

[Anonymous No.12200621]

>>12200340
>>12200351

I found it to be great, it is the most memorable recently written book I have read, and the imagery is very vivid.

[Anonymous No.12200625]

>>12200605
Thank (you)

[Anonymous No.12201467]

This thing. Short and experimental norwegian novel about a kid getting fucked by his much older horse riding teacher. I really didn't expect to like it at all but it's brilliant. I wish it'd get an english translation so I could properly meme it into popularity.

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[Anonymous No.12202946]

>>12200340
read the first 20 or so pages then put it down, heart of darkness doesnt't need cyclopses n shit, his prose style felt like hitting my head against a brick wall

[Anonymous No.12202988]

>>12201467
Everything on goodreads is 1 star tho

Is this gay nifty fan fiction stuff, or Lolita-esque?

[Anonymous No.12202996]

>>12200340
The Phenomenology of Language

By Remigius Kwant

[Anomynous No.12202997]

My self published novel

[Anonymous No.12203121]

>>12200340
Richard Calder, particularly Lord Soho and Dead Girls trilogy.

Some highlights of dead girls; injecting a nano machine opiate produced by a vagina in a jar of forameldyde and expat racism towards asians. Lord Soho is about eight generations trying to breed out a demonic ancestor through various scheming.

[Anonymous No.12203176]

>>12202988
>Everything on goodreads is 1 star tho
Not that goodreads is a very good indicator of quality but the danish entry has got more positive reviews. Yeah I know I said it was norwegian whatever
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12982779-huden-er-det-elastiske-hylster-der-omgiver-hele-legemet

It's like neither of those. The best thing I can think of to compare it to is The Waves by Woolf, but it's more aggressive and much more chaotic. The subject matter really isn't the interesting part, it's the language and form.

[Anonymous No.12204530]

>>12200340
oh yeah i read it six times

[Anonymous No.12205322]

This piece of shit. The author is a curator for a Norwegian art museum and about a third of the book is a catalogue of essentially ready made art which doesn't exist. Either he cannot write or the translation is awful, but the book does play with a few vaguely interesting ideas about art and history.