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best fiction set in the desert?
bonus for religious trad themes

>> No.18439398 [DELETED] 
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>>18439391
>trad

>> No.18439402

>>18439391
The Tartar Steppe (the title would be more accurately translated as "The Desert of the Tartars'")

>> No.18439412

>>18439402
this sounds pretty good, ty

>> No.18439432

>>18439391
Based. Even going missing has different connotations for the two. If you go missing in the forest people assume you were killed by a murder hobo or kidnapped, raped and killed by a redneck/serial killer. If you go missing in the desert people think it’s mysterious, you were swallowed up by the sands and are probably living as an arms trader or romantic revolutionary in some gruesome African conflict.

>> No.18439443

>>18439391
uh, fukken Dune?

>> No.18439460

The Sheltering Sky
Blood Meridian
Woman in the Dunes
Tartar Steppe
The Old Testament

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>>18439391
>best fiction set in the desert?
>bonus for religious trad themes

>> No.18439496
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>>18439391
Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard. Only read it if you're a heterosexual male, though, since this is a Western.

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https://theanarchistlibrary.. org/library/anonymous-desert

>> No.18439575

>>18439391
The Border trilogy

>> No.18439580

>>18439391
Horse and his Boy

>> No.18440969

>>18439432
Where I live if you go missing in the desert it means you were probably kidnapped and sold by mexican human traffickers.

>> No.18440978

>>18439513
based

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>>18439391
misread but downloaded the image.
Still good read recommended by forest anon.

>> No.18440997

>>18439580
I love that book! It really makes NPCs quake because of perceived racism, and it has many good moral themes to dwell on.

>> No.18441013

>>18439391
Dune is one of my favorite desert-based books. Good mix of complexity and narrative, kind of like LotR

>> No.18441015

>>18439391
Based Desert Chad

>> No.18441040

>>18439432
Even more based is going missing in the sea.

>> No.18441056

>>18439391
I hate to be that guy again but Blood Meridian

>> No.18441286

>>18439391
Cringe both. The true chad transcends land and instead opts for the sea

>> No.18441297

Death Comes for the Archbishop. Set in New Mexico in the 19th Century.

>> No.18441301

Point Omega
Ancient Evenings

>> No.18441307

>>18439432
>>18441040
Going missing in the mountains is the worst, people will just assume you slipped like some kind of retard and broke your neck

>> No.18441459

>>18439460
>The Old Testament
He said fiction

>> No.18441563
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Actually, it's not fiction, but check out "The Life of Saint Anthony." It's a biography of Saint Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism. He was Egyptian, and spent much of his life in the desert, enduring temptation from the Devil.

As a bonus, the biography is written by Saint Athanasius the Great. So it's literally a biography of a saint, written by another saint.

>> No.18441757

>>18441563
>enduring temptation from the Devil.
That is, trying not to fap.

>> No.18441932

>>18441757
I mean he was also supposedly beset by actual demons, too.

>> No.18442170

>>18439391
Surprised no-one said East of Eden yet, dusty + religious

>> No.18442236
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>>18440983
Based rec. If you look at his shelf in one of the videos you can see Monkeywrench Gang too by the same author

>> No.18442548
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Pic related is my favorite novel of the ~40 I read last year. Also check out The Sheltering Sky.
I wouldn't be surprised if you found what you were looking for in nonfiction.

>> No.18442583

wow lots of good Desert chad novels
didn't even realize it

>> No.18442618

A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.18443474

>>18442618
thanks

>> No.18443480

>>18439391
The Bible is nonfiction

>> No.18443507

>>18441286
based

>> No.18443550

>>18441286
The Sea fucking sucks. The Arctic is where it's at.

>> No.18443556

>>18443480
of course,
OPs request isn't implying that, although I can see why some would infer that

>> No.18443575
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>>18439391

>> No.18443838

>>18439513
Hard pill to swallow.

>> No.18443842
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>>18439391
May or may not be fiction, full of religious themes

>> No.18443873

Kinda amazing Dune was only mentioned twice so far. It's Dune.

>> No.18443889

>>18443873
Dune fucking sucks.

>> No.18443915

>>18439402
fuck, came here to post this

>> No.18443953

>>18443873
That's because Dune is a reddit series. Waste of time to read it. Consider suicide.

>> No.18444034

>>18439580
This. It's Lewis' best work

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>>18441757

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>>18439391

>> No.18444409

>>18440983
>>18443575
Adding this to my list

>> No.18444432
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>>18443550
This. I highly recommend In the Land of White Death. It's a true story of this Russian sailor who was second in command of a ship that got stuck in the arctic sea, after waiting it out for over a year it's clear to him they're never getting unstuck, so he leads those that choose to go with him on a trek across the frozen sea.

>> No.18444444

>>18439432
African conflicts with a minimum of strategy and need for foreign advisers are in forest areas or close to them. Desert is just a succession of razzias and drug trade disputes.
t. sold medecine there

>> No.18444448

>>18444444
Wasted.

>> No.18444452
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>>18444444
CHECKED
CHECKED
CHECKED

>> No.18444455

Sayings of the Desert Fathers lmao

>> No.18444457

>>18444041
Bros, have we ever solved that question 1700 years after?

>> No.18444467

>>18444444
Digits don't lie

>> No.18444960

Ossians poems are set in a wet desert.
>but it's not sandy
Thats not what a desert is

>> No.18444967

>>18444457
No it remains a mystery to this day whether demons molest you before or after they make you imagine a naked woman

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>>18444444
I cannot let numbers like these go unchecked

>> No.18445031

unironically one of the best stories ever told

https://longestjokeintheworld.com/

>> No.18445056

>>18441040
NO NO

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>>18439391
Apophthegmata Patrum

thank me later

>> No.18445083

>>18439402
I've heard they have good gfs there too

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>>18439391
>fiction set in the desert
>religious trad themes

I got you OP

>> No.18445188

>>18444444
checkin' em

>> No.18445227
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>>18443480
yeah the point of holy scripture is to describe history you fucking retard

>> No.18445228

>>18439391
The story of Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio

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>>18442548
Came here to post this, hate that cover though

>> No.18445669

>>18445227
yes holy scripture will describe history, but also the future and also moral teachings, how new are you to thinking?

>> No.18446017

behead those who insult the forest

>> No.18447258

>>18446017
>t. treehugger

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>>18446017
I love forests and I wish they weren't all being turned into magic the gathering cards, but deserts are indisputably better for telling a story.

>> No.18447729

>>18444054
Based

>> No.18449118

>>18444444
Checked

>> No.18449201

>>18446017
You have to be careful because when you don't respect the forest, the forest won't respect you. There are things that you cannot control, but the forest can if she chooses to.

>> No.18449210

>>18441040
The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above.

>> No.18449231

>>18441932
>actual demons
kek

>> No.18449239

>>18445659
Is Le Clézio actually good? Would that novel be a good intro to his work?

>> No.18449331

>>18449210
>The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above.
Perfect!