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Tiggum posted:The Douglas Adams chart is crazy. Ayn Rand? Ann Rice? it's because those are all children's authors
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Tiggum posted:The Douglas Adams chart is crazy. Ayn Rand? Ann Rice? Do it the other way and Ayn Rand is closest to Ray Bradbury, Ken Kesey, and Philip K. Dick. http://www.literature-map.com/ayn+rand.html
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Tiggum posted:The Douglas Adams chart is crazy. Ayn Rand? Ann Rice? Mervyn Peake got me a bunch of ancient Greeks and the Berserk manga artist, so the Adams chart is relatively sane.
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May 12, 2017 17:48
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:Mervyn Peake got me a bunch of ancient Greeks and the Berserk manga artist, so the Adams chart is relatively sane. Somehow that seems very appropriate for Mervyn Peake though v  v
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May 13, 2017 00:03
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Has anyone read The Takers by Jerry Ahern? I've recently had it described to me as a kind of Indiana Jones pulp pastiche, which appeals to me, but I have also heard that Jerry Ahern was a bit of a paranoid survivalist, which doesn't really appeal to me quite so much. Can anyone recommend it?
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Megabound posted:I'm about to finish A Canticle for Leibowitz and the previous book I enjoyed this much was The Name Of The Rose, so apparently my jam is allegory through Catholicism. Pretty much anything Gene Wolfe wrote might do you.
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Any recommendations for something similar to the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone? Also, anything similar to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro?
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Fusion Restaurant posted:Any recommendations for something similar to the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone? It depends on what aspect of Never Let Me Go appealed to you most. If it was the subtle and complex characterization and the novel's demand that you do mental work to fill in the blanks, go for Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills. Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride and Cat's Eye also have some of that going on, but neither are as tightly focused, and drag a bit in spots. All three stray significantly from the plot and genre, and are basically realistic fiction. If you're looking for a match that's sci-fi/speculative with things that are unsettling and morally problematic going on, try Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, or The Heart Goes Last. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts is another possibility. None of these books are quite as subtle or poignant as Never Let Me Go, but Girl with All the Gifts came closest.
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May 16, 2017 15:39
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I'd like to read about Nixon's impeachment - what's the best book for that?
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'd like to read about Nixon's impeachment - what's the best book for that? Nixon wasn't impeached Also, All the Presidents Men
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Nixon wasn't impeached Goes to show how much I know about the guy, whoops. Shoulda wikied him first. Thanks for the rec.
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I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that.
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uncle blog posted:I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that. Hamsun - Hunger Camus - The Stranger, The Fall Céline - Journey to the End of the Night Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground, Crime & Punishment Hesse - Steppenwolf Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
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uncle blog posted:I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that. Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov Everything Ras said
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May 19, 2017 19:06
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Lolita is a brave pick
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Thanks for the suggestions. Are there also some that takes place in a fairly modern time? Like the last 30 years?
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May 19, 2017 19:17
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The Unabomber Manifesto
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uncle blog posted:Thanks for the suggestions. Are there also some that takes place in a fairly modern time? Like the last 30 years? Goat Mountain by TBBs favorite author David Vann
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uncle blog posted:I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that. Satantango
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uncle blog posted:I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that. Invisible Monsters. It has my favorite theme of any of Palahniuk's books. Still stuck reading his prose, though.
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uncle blog posted:I'm looking for books with protagonists who have alternative world views. Examples are books like Fight Club and American Psycho. People who strongly believe in something different and could be considered inspiring (by some people at least). Preferably people who are successful in whatever their goal is. I'm really fascinated by stuff like that. Confessions of an English Opium Eater edit uncle blog posted:Thanks for the suggestions. Are there also some that takes place in a fairly modern time? Like the last 30 years? fuckkkkk I got nothin'. A lot of William Gibson. DirtyRobot fucked around with this message at 00:14 on May 21, 2017 |
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uncle blog posted:Thanks for the suggestions. Are there also some that takes place in a fairly modern time? Like the last 30 years?
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I'm looking for good existential dread, but Lovecraft kind of turns me off. I realize we circumvented this subject a little earlier in the thread, but if there is something like the Prometheus movie series that I can really sink my teeth into, I'd like to know.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I'm looking for good existential dread, but Lovecraft kind of turns me off. I realize we circumvented this subject a little earlier in the thread, but if there is something like the Prometheus movie series that I can really sink my teeth into, I'd like to know. Blindsight by Peter Watts. Dark, nihilistic, hard scifi.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I'm looking for good existential dread, but Lovecraft kind of turns me off. I realize we circumvented this subject a little earlier in the thread, but if there is something like the Prometheus movie series that I can really sink my teeth into, I'd like to know. The latest from Stephen King fits this really well. Can't remember the name and I'm on mobile at the moment. It's really, really good. The best thing he's written in a decade+
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I'm looking for good existential dread, but Lovecraft kind of turns me off. I realize we circumvented this subject a little earlier in the thread, but if there is something like the Prometheus movie series that I can really sink my teeth into, I'd like to know. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
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regulargonzalez posted:The latest from Stephen King fits this really well. Can't remember the name and I'm on mobile at the moment. It's really, really good. The best thing he's written in a decade+ lol
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drat bro u edgy af
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A human heart posted:Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials is this a real recommendation or an ironic recommendation
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Looks like it's a real recommendation. That book's been on my radar for a while for similar reasons. I find that anytime a human heart posts a specific title it's at least worth looking into.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:is this a real recommendation or an ironic recommendation It's real baby
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ok im gonna read it
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Ras Het posted:Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Everyone should read Machado de Assis, he's fantastic.
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I'm a scientist with only a passing knowledge of astrophysics, but much interest. Should I read A Brief History of Time? I've heard it's really readable. Or, any other cool, readable cosmology/astronomy books that you would recommend over it?
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alnilam posted:I'm a scientist with only a passing knowledge of astrophysics, but much interest. Should I read A Brief History of Time? I've heard it's really readable. Or, any other cool, readable cosmology/astronomy books that you would recommend over it? FWIW, I found Brian Greene's Elegant Universe much more informative, but A Brief History of Time is also good.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I'm looking for good existential dread, but Lovecraft kind of turns me off. I realize we circumvented this subject a little earlier in the thread, but if there is something like the Prometheus movie series that I can really sink my teeth into, I'd like to know.
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot are p deece
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May 23, 2017 11:17
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Anyone familiar with any good lays or narrative poem books? I've read "lays of ancient Rome" & " Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ". Just looking for suggestions on further readings.
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okraslayer posted:Anyone familiar with any good lays or narrative poem books? I've read "lays of ancient Rome" & " Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ". The Lais of Marie de France The Middle English Breton Lays, available free to read on the METS website Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border the Oxford Book of Ballads
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chernobyl kinsman posted:The Lais of Marie de France thank you
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