>Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe >The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe >Catch 22 by Joseph Heller>The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut>Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Can I get recommendations based on these books? I'm not in touch with literary discussion or communities and don't know how to find new books to read.
>>23821467No
>>23821467Go to Philip K. Dick’s best works:UbikFlow My Tears, the Policeman SaidVALISThe Man in the High Castle (some hate this one, for whatever reason, fair warning, but I loved it)The Three Stigmata of Palmer EldritchThe Game-Players of TitanMartian Time-SlipThe Simulacra (obscurer work of his that’s a favorite of mine)The Penultimate Truth (ditto)Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Galactic Pot-HealerA Maze of Death (one of his gloomiest and saddest ones but with a surprisingly touching ending)If you want to get back to even more retro sci-fi, the old classics:Olaf Stapledon’s “Starmaker.” His other sci-fi works are supposed to be very good too but I haven’t gotten to them yet.David Lindsay’s “A Voyage to Arcturus”And of course based on your recs, you could get into others of Vonnegut’s best works (Slaughterhouse Five, also Cat’s Cradle is my particular favorite).
>>23821467>midwit>catch-22The Castle by Franz KafkaOld Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Changes, circles spinning..Can't tell the finish from the beginning
Have you ready Don Quixote yet? The Edith Grossman translation with annotations is great. Incredibly funny.
Go for the 'bow
>>23821954DAMNED 'BOS!
My teacher recommended Catch-22 because he thought it'd "fit my style". I later wrote an essay called "Catch-22 is the most overrated piece of shit book ever" and the essay wasn't even about the book, it was about the civil rights movement. Just a harmless joke but he didn't appreciate it.
Christopher Hitchens said this was one of his favorite books.. I don't know what that means but he was a huge fan and thought it to be genius
>>23822811I always avoided any political themes because many of my political views were deemed socially unacceptable so I would either pick themes so boring that even a bureaucrat would fall asleep reading them or I would sneak my ideas in by using neutral language and popular platitudes. I aced all my essays and tests so it worked out somehow.
