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Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:22:23 2020 No.15644202 [Reply] [Original]

Can you guys recommend me books that are sort of weird/experimental?

I don't mean anything too deep or impenetrable, just something different that plays with structure or a genre's expectations in a clever way. Sort of like the literary equivalent of Blue Jam.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:23:45 2020 No.15644206 >>15644202 Read everything by Kafka. You might also like PKD if you haven't checked him out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:25:34 2020 No.15644210 Der unsichtbare Apfel

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:30:42 2020 No.15644227 O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:36:44 2020 No.15644246 >>15644202 Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, if you haven’t read it already, I’d pretty mucin your description to a T.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:44:44 2020 No.15644279 >>15644202 Life: A User's Manual or any other book by Perec

Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:44:47 2020 No.15644280

>>15644202
The closest I've read to that is Star Maker by Olaf Stapleton. There's no conventional narrative, it's a guy's astral projection journey through the history of intelligent life in the universe (both past and future). It starts with conventional sci fi concepts and then gets more and more ambitious and crazy. His earlier book Last and First Men is similar but much smaller in scope, it "only" covers the future of humanity for the next few million years.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 07:50:40 2020 No.15644301 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 08:29:12 2020 No.15644473 The Waves by Woolf

Anonymous Fri Jun 19 09:49:40 2020 No.15644819

>>15644202

Try R.A.Lafferty. He wrote sci-fi short stories and often plays around in the way you suggest. Bonus: it's not much time wasted if you try one and don't like it.

Some good ones, off the top of my head:
>Slow Tuesday Night
>Nine Hundred Grandmothers
>Thieving Bear Planet
>Land of the Great Horses
>Continued On Next Rock
>Narrow Valley

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 09:51:47 2020 No.15644828 >>15644819 Still in the sci-fi vein, you could also try The Star Diaries by Stanislav Lem. I got a bit fed-up with his cleverness after a while, but he's readable in small doses.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 10:53:42 2020 No.15645178 >>15644202 The crying of lot 49

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 11:25:30 2020 No.15645324 Seiobo There Below Texts For Nothing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 19 12:34:23 2020 No.15645761 >>15644280 Very very good book.

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