Hidden Gems.

[Anonymous No.22156292]

Post books that are hidden gems.

[Anonymous No.22156378]

This book blows Men, Beasts, and Gods out of the water, despite the author working for the same people that Ferdynand Ossendowski worked for. Criminally underrated.

[Anonymous No.22156509]

>>22156292
Talk a bit about it. Like a phrase about it. Anything, really

[Anonymous No.22156606]

I love these threads because I get to fill up my to-read list, but I hate these threads because you guys never say a single fucking thing about the books.

[Anonymous No.22156611]

>>22156292
kneel

[Anonymous No.22156616]

>>22156509
Beautifully written story of man's relationship with nature and how that relates to man's relationship with himself.

[Anonymous No.22156884]

Matthiessen does get talked about on this board but mostly for Shadow Country or The Snow Leopard.
This gem gets unjustly overlooked though admittedly the Cayman patois takes a little getting used to.

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>>22156884
These covers are kino

[Anonymous No.22157267]

>>22156292

[Anonymous No.22157295]

>>22157267
>Storms Oven Open Fields is an online furry novel written by…
Anon?

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>>22157295
That typo isn’t mine
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Storms_Over_Open_Fields

[Anonymous No.22157316]

>>22156292
Like truly hidden gems or books that you only see mentioned once in a blue on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.22157325]

>>22157295
it was written by a furry in the 90s, which means it has effectively nothing to do with the twitterfags that call themselves furries today.
I was recommended it by a friend of mine who is a furfag, and I had the same reaction you did. Then I read it and it was a surprisingly good story and actually fucked around with the tropes I expected it to follow.

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>>22157355
for me it's dying outside

[Anonymous No.22157366]

You niggers don't deserve these recommendations. I hope you're grateful

[Anonymous No.22157368]

>>22157325
There is literally only one question:
Does animal fuck animals or humanoid-animal hybrids?
If the answer is yes, then I’m not reading that shit

[Anonymous No.22157376]

scifi can't be liter-ACK!

[Anonymous No.22157382]

One of my favourites by Jack Kerouac, which happens to be one of his least-read.

[Anonymous No.22157407]

>>22157368
There are a couple "sex-scenes" I guess between the main character and a humanoid alien, but it's mostly implied. It was actually surprisingly tasteful, and was very much a story element, not smut.

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>>22157407
Bro
(in all seriousness, I commend you for being honest but I am not reading that shit)

[Anonymous No.22157489]

Alright I’ll play

[Anonymous No.22157522]

>>22156292
I’m not saying these are obscure but I don’t see them mentioned here often, especially if it’s not me doing it

>The Colossus Of Maroussi by Henry Miller
>Bug Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
>Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
>Vincent Van Gogh’s Letters
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
>A Glastonbury Romance by Powys
>Cellini’s Autobiography
>Casanova’s Memoirs
>Niels Lyhne by Jacobsen
>Mysteries by Hamsun
>Sentimental Education by Flaubert
>Sallust
>Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
>The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder by Henry Miller
>Democratic Vistas/November Boughs/Specimen Days by Whitman
>Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautreamont
>The Third Policeman by O’Brien
>Jesus’ Son by Johnson
>Wind, Sand and Stars by St. Exupery
>Buddenbrooks by Mann
>The Rainbow by Lawrence

[Anonymous No.22159008]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22159032]

>>22156611
LOL

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>>22157489
read the sample on amazon and am v intrigued. great rec, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.22160898]

>>22156611
This has been in my stack for a while. Would you recommend I read up on the life of Mao before I read this?

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>>22160898
Nah, no need.

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>>22157522
No disrespect I don’t think many of those are obscure but you’re right they aren’t discussed much and I think it says a lot about how sadly myopic and shitty this board has become

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>>22157522
You’re retarded

[Anonymous No.22161117]

>>22157522
I love the obscures indie authors Henry Miller, Flaubert, Hamsun, Whitman, Mann, DH Lawrence.

[Anonymous No.22161139]

>>22161117
You didn’t read the preface. How often have you seen Sentimental Education or Whitman’s prose work discussed here?

[Anonymous No.22161149]

>>22161139
Sentimental Education is not a hidden gem. It’s a classic. The thread was about hidden gems, not about “books that aren’t mentioned every single day.”

[Anonymous No.22161167]

>>22161149
It is kinda a hidden gem on /lit/. Can’t remember the last time I saw a thread on it

[Anonymous No.22161186]

>>22161167
Last time that it was mentioned here was just 2 days ago

[Anonymous No.22161225]

>>22156606
be the change you want to see

[Anonymous No.22161232]

>>22161186
But what about an actual discussion?

[Anonymous No.22161574]

>>22161232
actual discussion of a novel? on /lit/? send me some links

[Anonymous No.22161585]

>>22161574
They happened pre-russian invasion

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>>22157267
Why am I getting MYST flashbacks?

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>>22160909
Great book. This guy's cosmology wasn't as schizo as I was expecting, it actually had some internal logic. He seemed like one of those /tg/ worldbuilding autists stuck in a different age, but if they actually believed the shit they were coming up with was the true nature of reality.