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tuyop posted:Ling Ma is a good author to watch imo. She’s in her 40s now but writes very well about millennial identity stuff, with a focus on immigrant stories. Severance is really good. Ken Liu is also a late millennial but has great short stories about being millennials in late stage capitalism. millennials are in their 40's now. edit; terrible snipe
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:millennials are in their 40's now. Yeah I think that's why they both write compellingly about the experience, though I'm a bit younger than either of them.
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nice, ling ma sounds like a good example of what i'm looking for
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Bilirubin posted:How about The Marrow Thieves? so does this, depending on how intensely YA it is/what flavor of that (I'm liking RF Kuang's Babel right now, which isn't marketed as YA, but otoh I really did not like the last YA book someone recommended me, Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse)
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Tea Bone posted:I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. If you want realistic terror of being trapped, it's a comic not a novel but House by Josh Simmons is an unforgettably bleak experience
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tuyop posted:Have you read any Thomas Ligotti? wheatpuppy posted:Have you tried The Hike by Drew Magary? yaffle posted:Borges maybe? Gripweed posted:Not books, but I do have some movie suggestions that I think will evoke the feeling you're after... fez_machine posted:If you want realistic terror of being trapped, it's a comic not a novel but House by Josh Simmons is an unforgettably bleak experience Thanks everyone, I'll look into all of these. Going to start with The Bungalow House, also Alternative 3 looks particularly interesting.
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Want a novel or short story with a significant portion of it taking place in a modern prison. I read American Rust recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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escape artist posted:Want a novel or short story with a significant portion of it taking place in a modern prison. I read American Rust recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. its nonfiction iirc but the Jeffrey Archer books? Prison Diaries iirc they read like fiction (if 2003 counts as modern too)
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Amusing/silly/goofy historical fiction? Something that might be a literary companion to Our Flag Means Death or Blackadder or Jack of All Trades. Or, I suppose, the Monkey Island games. Maybe "Terry Prachett without the magic' kind of vibes?
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feedmyleg posted:Amusing/silly/goofy historical fiction? Something that might be a literary companion to Our Flag Means Death or Blackadder or Jack of All Trades. Or, I suppose, the Monkey Island games. Maybe "Terry Prachett without the magic' kind of vibes? Flashman? Patrick O'Brian is very funny at times, but maybe not exactly goofy. Spike Milligan's war diaries are funny if you like Spike Milligan.
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I wouldn't exactly say it's a remotely suitable book for your purposes, but Gravity's Rainbow is historical fiction and definitely is very zany and whackadoodle. I'm sure similar can be said of Mason & Dixon in the 18th century and Against the Day in the turn of the 20th.
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feedmyleg posted:Amusing/silly/goofy historical fiction? Something that might be a literary companion to Our Flag Means Death or Blackadder or Jack of All Trades. Or, I suppose, the Monkey Island games. Maybe "Terry Prachett without the magic' kind of vibes? I forgot Augustus Carp and The Good Soldier Schweik, which are both nearly 100 years old and must be historical fiction, right? https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/carp/ https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Good%20Soldier%20Svejk%20-%20Jaroslav%20Hasek.pdf
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feedmyleg posted:Amusing/silly/goofy historical fiction? Something that might be a literary companion to Our Flag Means Death or Blackadder or Jack of All Trades. Or, I suppose, the Monkey Island games. Maybe "Terry Prachett without the magic' kind of vibes? Catch-22
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yaffle posted:Flashman? This. And if you like Our Flag Means Death, you'll probably like Fraser's The Pyrates too.
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feedmyleg posted:Amusing/silly/goofy historical fiction? Something that might be a literary companion to Our Flag Means Death or Blackadder or Jack of All Trades. Or, I suppose, the Monkey Island games. Maybe "Terry Prachett without the magic' kind of vibes? To Say Nothing of the Dog.
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Haystack posted:To Say Nothing of the Dog. It's a lot lighter than most of the suggestions, but how about The Curse of Capistrano? It's the debut book of the pulp hero Zorro and a lot of it is quaint to the point of becoming funny, especially in regards to Zorro's double identity shenanigans or the fact that just about everyone enters and exits houses by windows for Dramatic Effect. It's been a BotM a while back so you can check the thread for more responses there.
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anilEhilated posted:*Contains time travel. Very appropriate given the new bootlicking zorro that’s currently in production
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regulargonzalez posted:Are there any first hand accounts of the experience of dementia? Not that I know of. Not even Iris Murdoch wrote one.
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regulargonzalez posted:Are there any first hand accounts of the experience of dementia? Still Alice? It’s fiction, and I don’t remember if all of it is from her POV, but I remember some really moving passages and descriptions of her experience.
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Anything amusing about corporate or bureaucratic incompetence?
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FPyat posted:Anything amusing about corporate or bureaucratic incompetence? I mean, Catch-22?
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FPyat posted:Anything amusing about corporate or bureaucratic incompetence? A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is about a small town with a bear problem and what happens when a bunch of internet libertarians invade and try to take over the town.
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wheatpuppy posted:I mean, Catch-22? tuyop posted:A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is about a small town with a bear problem and what happens when a bunch of internet libertarians invade and try to take over the town. Strong recommendation for both of these
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Rather specific, I actually posted about this in the anime forum but didn't gain much traction and thought maybe someone here could also have overlapping interests (also it's the book forum) I'd like to read a history of manga as a medium, and also anything that delves into the process/lifestyle surrounding manga in general (maybe this could even be something biographical for famous mangaka or the process behind a specific work). I got a few interesting suggestions in ADRTW but not specifically any kind of book.
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FPyat posted:Anything amusing about corporate or bureaucratic incompetence? The Dark Side (Anthony O'Neill) is a noir murder mystery set on the moon, which has been colonized by a libertarian billionaire. It's a quick read.
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So any good books on Japan or Italy at the immediate era after ww2
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Upsidads posted:So any good books on Japan ... at the immediate era after ww2 Embracing Defeat is what you want.
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Upsidads posted:So any good books on Japan or Italy at the immediate era after ww2 Barefoot Gen is a classic if you're ok with manga.
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Leraika posted:Barefoot Gen is a classic if you're ok with manga. I'm looking for less depressing than Grave of the Fireflies (which is everything) more of a historical overview. Like how do you move past Mussolini or MacArthur
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Upsidads posted:I'm looking for less depressing than Grave of the Fireflies (which is everything) more of a historical overview. Like how do you move past Mussolini or MacArthur Definitely not Barefoot Gen, then.
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Upsidads posted:I'm looking for less depressing than Grave of the Fireflies (which is everything) more of a historical overview. Like how do you move past Mussolini or MacArthur BioTech posted:Embracing Defeat is what you want.
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Absolutely. But I will back up Barefoot Gen is great I recommend it as well
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Upsidads posted:So any good books on Japan or Italy at the immediate era after ww2 "Showa" by Shigeru Mizuki is a pretty decent history of modern Japan, at least from the perspective of a manga artist, starts in 1926 I think.
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Finished Brandon Sanderson Mistborn era 1 and the stormlight archives over the last three months- any suggestions for what to read next? I’m thinking I need an author break. The last author I’ve read this deeply was Haruki Murakami, if that helps with recommendations.
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Any suggestions on where to go for a WAG's tale? Wives and Girlfriends. I think the term is explicitly used for the wives and girlfriends—mainly—of English football stars and is the tabloid term. Or NFL, basketball, MLB... I know NHL was a trend in romance. Any sport is fine but preferably non-fiction, rather than something imagined. A couple of biographies of a woman's twenties and early thirties as a WAG would be great. If they met when they were teens and he was in the academy all the better (think Rooney and Colleen.) Just looking to get as real a glimpse into the world as possible. Possibly "research." Fashion, drama and sport would be great. Along with sex, if it's not too naughty. Hopefully not reality TV, but if I must...virinvictus posted:Finished Brandon Sanderson Mistborn era 1 and the stormlight archives over the last three months- any suggestions for what to read next? I’m thinking I need an author break. Maybe Trudi Canavan? She's still 'Fantasy' but I remember liking her as a young adult. "The Magician's Guild, maybe? I'd make a bet, having not read Canavan in decades or ever Sanderson that she's better. Like I said, still fantasy. If you want decent writing and a story that whips along, and sticks to the diversity of Murakami versus Sanderson I'd say Solar Bones by Mike McCormack? Great book that ends perfectly. Canavan is also Australian, so I think she'd be ok with me calling her a "Good oval office!" At least from what I've read. I enjoyed the two trilogies of hers I read. And was really happy when I looked a the sci-fi section of Waterstones the other day she was taking up half a shelf.
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Mrenda posted:Any suggestions on where to go for a WAG's tale? Wives and Girlfriends. I don’t know what this genre is but I’m so interested. Do you have any examples?
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tuyop posted:I don’t know what this genre is but I’m so interested. Do you have any examples? It's not a genre. I'm looking for a good biography of one. Especially during their time in football. The wikipedia article (of which I've read the first five or so lines) seems to describe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGs I'm sure if you want to search out NHL hockey romance books you'll find something. I think the effect of the romance books, on a particular player, made the newspapers a year or two ago. It's an interesting lifestyle. (Also... Are you a bot? I thought I explained all this in my original post.)
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This is a pretty broad request - I've been in a bit of reading rut and have been trying to get back in through historical fiction, one of my favorite genres. Anyone have any favorite titles they'd like to recommend? I particularly enjoy works that take place outside the US and Europe (Pachinko, The island of Sea Women, and Amitav Ghosh's entire Ibis trilogy are particular favorites of mine). But definitely not opposed to solid works set there (I've enjoyed nearly everything I've read from James Mcbride, Louis Erdrich, and Carlos Ruiz Zafón).
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