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What's the closest book to Twin Peaks feel?

>cool cast of characters
>comfy setting, well defined and described
>goes from jovial romp to horror at the flick of a page

I shit you not, closest I got to it was Hogwarts and Derry (in It). Surely there has to be something closer and better written?

>> No.7218770

Pnin is comfy.

>> No.7218802

>>7218770
>Pnin

I have yet to read Nabokov but since reading Wolfe I intend to, thanks.

Who's David Lynch of literature?

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>>7218758
Steve Erickson's Days Between Stations is the closest I can think of. It's not really comfy, but it does go from a relatively normal setting at the start and then increasingly weird shit goes on.

>> No.7218971

>>7218960
Will check it out

>> No.7218980

>>7218960
got a link to that perhaps?

>> No.7219021

>>7218980
It's at gen.lib.rus.ec, but the author name is misspelled Ericson

>> No.7219229

Winesburg, Ohio
Pastures of Heaven
The Harry Quebert affair

>> No.7219231

>>7219229
OH WaIT Chronic City

so tiiiight, such wonderfully eccentric characters, such warped americana

>> No.7219234

Ubik comes to mind, features a really incredible slow-apocalyptic-slide-into-insanity kind of thing with really funny sci fi smears.

also: white noise duh

>> No.7219467

>>7219229

Seconding Winesburg, Ohio. Also, I find Chekhov really, really comfy, especially sipping coffee with some shoegaze on my headphones as I'm on a train or a tram going someplace.

>> No.7219696

>>7219467
Where do you live at that has trains and trams? Trams are comfy as shit but they're sadly rare in the states.

>> No.7219701

>>7219696

Melbourne bro. I grew up about an hour away in a smaller town though so I catch a train back there to see friends/family once a month or so. I feel for you bro.

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I don't think that Will Ferguson has much to say about rural Canada... but he's clearly enthralled with Japan. In this book, he seeks to follow the arrival of the cherry blossoms, working his way down the country by hitchhiking. It is quite funny but the humour always arises out of literate historical observations.

This book, some tea, and a game of Chessmaster are pure bliss in combination. You might also try chess with a human being.

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Troutstream - Gerald Lynch
Or maybe Virgin Suicides?

>> No.7220296

>>7219021
not there anymore it seems

>> No.7220303

>>7219742
got a link?

i play on lichess and lose

>> No.7221805

>>7219234
keep seeing white noise tossed about; never with an author attached. Wanna fix that please?

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>>7218758
That's a pretty comfy pic OP.

>> No.7222067

>>7221805
Don DeLillo, bud. A great read. If you like it try out Underworld too.

>> No.7222089

>>7221805
wanna learn how to use google? try "white noise book" and see what pops up chum

>> No.7222100

>>7218758
Don Delilo certainly has some elements that are similar to Lynch.
David Foster Wallace as well.

>> No.7222130

>>7222067
I haven't really read anything since I started going to rock shows for the summer but I just picked up underworld because it was cheap. Should I jump back into reading with this anon?

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7222158

If you don't mind pictures intertwining with your words, I haven't found anything as close as Strangehaven.

>> No.7222162

You should try "The Land Across" by Gene Wolfe.

>> No.7222363

>>7222089
multiple books. yes, one with the intended author, but others as well friendo.
>>7222067
thank you, kindly.

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someone recommended a book on here that was supposedly a big influence on lycnh's vision of twin peaks but i can't remember what it was

a novel i think, not a well known one

>> No.7223640

>>7222416
Cities of the Red Night?

>> No.7225144

>>7218802
Lynch has some clear similarities to Kafka, but not so much Twin Peaks as much as stuff like Eraserhead and Lost Highway

>> No.7225471

>>7222162
Is there anything that dude isn't a master of writing?

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7225523

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

>> No.7225664

>>7223640
source?

>> No.7225908

>>7222067
>>7222130
I read Underworld so fucking fast. Must have been one week. Just ploughing through it 100 pages a day.

It's amazing. The ending is the best part. Don't listen to anyone who sez the beginning is the only good part.

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>>7218758

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>>7218758

/v/ here all you said and more here! Put down that book grab this game.

>> No.7228754

>>7226764
He wanted something with a similar feel, not a plagiarism of Twin Peaks, family.

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Behead All Satans

It's like an old friend sometimes, and sometimes it's like wtf am i reading.