I need book recommendations, I've completed my journey with film and anime

[Anonymous No.20164413]

I need book recommendations.

The best story I've read is The Immortal by Borges. I also liked Color out of Space by Lovecraft. The Caress by Greg Egan was very nice.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami is the best novel I've read so far (his other books suck).

Some stuff that I liked:
1. Texhnolyze
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
3. Evangelion
4. Shin sekai yori (most interesting theories and worldbuilding I've ever seen),
5. Uchouten Kazoku
6. Mawaru Penguindrum

And movies (very few movies are good):
1. The Tree of Life
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. The Thing
4. A Serious Man
5. The Exorcist
6. The Wicker Man (1973)
7. High and Low
8. Harakiri

I plan to read Gravity's Rainbow. I heard Ulysses sucked ass.

[Anonymous No.20164769]

>>20164413


I have similar tastes to you in film and anime. Here is a list in no particular order.

-100 years of solitude
-The Time Traveler
- Snow Crash
-Moby Dick
-Notes from Underground
-The Brothers Karamazov
-The Martian Chronicles
-Growth of the Soil
- The Sea Wolf
-Childhoods End

[Anonymous No.20164814]

Try Philip K Dick, maybe Ubik

[Anonymous No.20164842]

Your r*ddit taste in movies and anime is meaningless. Do the same thing that every newfag should:
>check out the classics
>choose whatever seems interesting to you
>if you like one particular book especially look into the author and check out his other works
>if you liked a certain characteristic among your favorites then look into the subgenre and historical time period for more
So for example:
>"Sound and the fury seems interesting, I'll read that"
>"Wow this was a great book, what about other faulkner works?"
>"Damn nigger this manlet can write! What about other southern gothic stuff?"
Or alternatively:
>"Wow this stream of consciousness stuff is powerful, I should read others who did that!"
And soon enough you will have developed a certain taste that already places you above 90% of this faggot board even if you haven't read as much because most people here just go through the classics like a check list to impress fellow r*dditors and jerk themselves off over how much critically acclaimed literature they have mindlessly flipped through

[Anonymous No.20164844]

>>20164413
Entry level taste in film. Watch some better kino

[Anonymous No.20164889]

>>20164769
This was what I was looking for, thanks bro

[Anonymous No.20164911]

>>20164844
Don't expect me to watch Satantango and rate it a 10. Film generally sucks as a storytelling medium.

[Anonymous No.20164928]

>>20164413
>I've completed my journey with film
>my taste is beginner tier

[Anonymous No.20164936]

>>20164413
Check out the BFI 100 top films for a useful list of great cinema. The film's in your list are all good, but there is another level of cinema out there that you haven't explored yet.

[Anonymous No.20165002]

>>20164936
I did watch a lot of the films on that list actually. I mean how can one enjoy Citizen Kane, it's like reading a half-assed Sumerian text and thinking it's the best piece of fiction of all time. I can't like films based on their influence

[Anonymous No.20165091]

Watch:
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Mushoku Tensei
To Your Eternity
Demon Slayer (optional)

[Anonymous No.20165153]

>>20165002
Citizen Kane is brilliant, not just because it's influential. It's an incredible, fascinating films. You need to watch it again. But Tokyo Story is probably the best film on the list.

[Anonymous No.20166342]

>>20164413
The iliad is your first boss

[Anonymous No.20166351]

>>20164413
reddit, the lists

[Anonymous No.20166401]

OP I hope you're underage because if you're in college and still have zero individual taste I'm afraid you're critcally ngmi

[Anonymous No.20166415]

>>20166351
Give me a list that isn't reddit, I've been here only for a few days and you guys seem to call everything reddit. Mawaru Penguindrum and Harakiri are the only pozzed pieces of media on those lists. None of them is bad too

[Anonymous No.20166424]

>>20166401
Give me a good list and I'll see yours. I can explain why I like what I like. Also you probably haven't seen any of the anime on that list except Evangelion. Otherwise you wouldn't be saying this

[Anonymous No.20166426]

>>20164842
based

[Anonymous No.20166634]

>>20164413
You're utterly cringe. Honestly, you should probably start lifting weights before picking up another book because you sure seem like an effeminate, little baby boy.

[Anonymous No.20166638]

>>20164842
This.

[Anonymous No.20166644]

>>20166634

You wouldn't have been saying this if you lifted weights and actually understood those works

[Anonymous No.20166653]

>>20166644
Kek

[Anonymous No.20166659]

>>20166653
I am sure your list would be full of faggot stuff

[Anonymous No.20166667]

>>20166659
Cope

[Anonymous No.20166670]

>>20166667
Poast then

[Anonymous No.20166682]

>>20166670

[Anonymous No.20166716]

>>20164413
You have not broken through the pleb filter yet but perhaps one day you will.
You are on the right track at least.

[Anonymous No.20166742]

>>20164413
lol your film list is horrendously normie, you aren't even close to being done with the medium unless you consider being literally one step ahead of braindead tarantino watchers as your end point.
also watch Lain. it's the only actually good anime that isn't on your list. actually also watch tenshi no tamago. it's a film but it's weebshit so get that on your list as well.
you astutely observed that murakami is a dogshit hack writer so you may still have a chance lad
i wish you the best

[Anonymous No.20166777]

>>20166742
>it's the only actually good anime that isn't on your list
Eh. It's a bad list. There's no
>LotGH 88
>HxH 11
>Violet Evergarden
>Ranking of Kings
on there and instead mainly edgy, daddy issue shit.

[Anonymous No.20166783]

>>20164413
>I've completed my journey with film and anime
Why do you have this attitude?
Like >>20164842 says it seems like you're just gathering a list of favorites you can rattle off to try an impress people. If you were truly curious you would've realized that cinema has far more to offer than TSPDT core

[Anonymous No.20166786]

>>20164413
>I've completed my journey with film
>And movies (very few movies are good):
<proceeds to list absolute IMDb-core

[Anonymous No.20167464]

>>20164413
If you like Borges and Greg Egan you should read Ted Chiang the guy who wrote the short story Arrival was based on. Chiang has been credibly compared to both Egan and Borges

[Anonymous No.20167998]

>>20164842
>"Damn nigger this manlet can write! What about other southern gothic stuff?"
KEK