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What books would you recommend(...) 12/05/25(Fri)11:43:41 No.24927546

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What books would you recommend? Anonymous 12/05/25(Fri)11:43:41 No.24927546 Archived

It's been a while since I've read anything. I'm looking for something that examines the absurdism of life, something 'existentialist'. Fiction or nonfiction is OK.

Thanks anons

Anonymous
12/05/25(Fri)11:51:47 No.24927563

Anonymous 12/05/25(Fri)11:51:47 No.24927563

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>>24927546

Anonymous
12/05/25(Fri)16:06:43 No.24927990

Anonymous 12/05/25(Fri)16:06:43 No.24927990

>>24927546
Was not expecting to see kaiba on this board today. Or at all today. Based taste anon. Don't have a rec for you but here's a bump. I'd like to see some recs myself as I'm in the same boat.

Anonymous
12/05/25(Fri)22:03:41 No.24928802

Anonymous 12/05/25(Fri)22:03:41 No.24928802

>>24927546
>>24927990
I find Stanislaw Lem has a similar vibe to Kaiba. Don't ask me to explain why.

Anonymous
12/05/25(Fri)22:23:57 No.24928848

Anonymous 12/05/25(Fri)22:23:57 No.24928848

NEVER YOUR HEART TOO LONG ALWAYS BESIDE YOU IS ALL I WAAAAANTED

Anonymous
12/06/25(Sat)09:46:24 No.24929753

Anonymous 12/06/25(Sat)09:46:24 No.24929753

Bumping for kaiba

Guilty/Not Guilty by Kierkegaard
The Decameron by Boccaccio
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The City and the Mountain by Eça de Queirós

Anonymous
12/06/25(Sat)10:05:29 No.24929785

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>>24927546
There are no good books of that type. Read this instead.

Anonymous
12/06/25(Sat)10:27:26 No.24929816

Anonymous 12/06/25(Sat)10:27:26 No.24929816

>>24929785
did you pull that from the experience of god bibliography by chance?

Anonymous
12/07/25(Sun)02:38:09 No.24931621

Anonymous 12/07/25(Sun)02:38:09 No.24931621

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War with the Newts, not a direct correlation with the theme of the absurd, but a funny satire about salamander.

Anonymous
12/07/25(Sun)02:52:26 No.24931636

Anonymous 12/07/25(Sun)02:52:26 No.24931636

>>24927546
Good taste.

I think this is a case of inverse-Lovecraft where something only works visually and could never be accomplished in the written word.

As Lovecraft relies on the nebulous and unknown to create unease that doesn't work in film or tele, Kaiba relies on the abstract forms of its futuristic setting to create the alienness that makes it so captivating. You couldn't do it with words, you'd spend pages just describing weird shapes and proportions and the effect would be lost.

Anonymous
12/07/25(Sun)14:53:31 No.24932787

Anonymous 12/07/25(Sun)14:53:31 No.24932787

>>24931621
>funny satire
Literally 1/5 of it is incredibly detailed descriptions of torturing the newts