Literature That Gives Reading Meaning

[Anonymous No.22454410]

I'm looking for books that provide a novel experience. An experience that can't be found in music, or TV, or videogames, something you can point at and say "this is why the medium of literature still exists." What books scratch this itch for you and why?

[Anonymous No.22454439]

>>22454410
There's lots of literature that can't really be translated to another medium. Like if you were to make a movie or TV series from a big encyclopedic doorstopper like Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, or Moby Dick, you could probably get the gist of the plot across, but a lot would also be lost. Or consider something like Invisible Cities, which doesn't really have a plot and wouldn't make sense when translated to a screen

[Anonymous No.22454455]

>>22454439
>something like Invisible Cities
Might as well say anything written by Calvino.

[Anonymous No.22454493]

>>22454455
Yeah fair enough

[Anonymous No.22455544]

This because of the mindfuck twist. I have no idea how that could be done in film or anything else

[Anonymous No.22455569]

Inimitable in other mediums

[Anonymous No.22455586]

>>22454410
"Medium of literature" is a misnomer. Literature has no medium other than the thin membrane of language, it occurs in your mind. A film looks identical for everyone, a song sounds the same for everyone, a videogame has the same programming constraints and graphical presentation. Literature does not exist outside the mind. A single sentence like "A screaming comes across the sky." will evolve vastly different emotions, images, associations within all people. Thus literature is boundless in it's evocative powers and artistically limitless. To find the limits of literature is to exhaust the powers of human intellect.

[Anonymous No.22455587]

>>22454410
Pale Fire makes use of the format in a pretty novel way.

[Anonymous No.22455645]

>>22454410
Read novels with great prose
>>22454439
Moby Dick has had multiple adaptations. Your criteria is stupid to begin with.