ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
Blink, please.
>>25173894Critique of Pure Reason
Bataille is the mirror and I'm staring at myself in the mirror
>>25173891The moomins.
>>25173896maybe later
>>25174921Pelevin Generation P
>>25173891I'm serious when I say that dreamcore is the next big thing culturally.
>>25174921Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe>>25174930Flowers In The Attic by VC Andrews>>25173908At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
>>25173911Vineland
>>25173894Consider the Lobster (specifically the Doestoyevsky essay)
>>25175023Don Quixote
>>25173891The Obscene Bird of the Night, José Donoso.>>25174948Ovid's Metamorphoses. >>25174979Candide, Voltaire.
>>25173891the amazing digital circus
>>25173911Confederacy of Dunces for the absurdism
>>25173894Coloring books from the supermarket
>>25173894infinite jest>>25173908the movie "les sommet des dieu". most of it looks exactly like this.>>25174965this picture could act as a plot summary for "my year of rest and relaxation>>25174948the aenied portrays zeus as much more staid and untempermental than he is in homer's work. the gods are not known for their ability to cause destruction, but to maintain calm.>>25175091rijneveld's work deals with death and exposure to death from a young age.
>>25173891The Cipher by Kathe Koja
>>25173891Best I can do for yah, redditor.
>>25175330Top tier book fair buy
>>25175320
>>25175422is it degreased
>>25175382
>>25175382Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor
>>25175422Man, this is the only thing anyone ever suggests. I don't want to read more autistic Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction, I've already read all of the Chrischan comics.
>>25173899Good one, good one.
>>25175274>rijneveldnever heard of him, thanks for the recommendation anon. the discomfort of evening seems wild
>>25175488A Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin
>>25175320Flatland sort of
>>25175382Rogue Warrior
>>25175488East of the Sun and West of the Moon>>25175539>him
>>25175076Join the 41%
>>25175076That's not a book you stupid fucking tranny
>>25175648In the dark places of wisdom>>25175715Saga of Hervor and Heidrek>>25175906Metro 2033
>>25173891
>>25173911Tommy Pinecone>>25174930Pierre; or, the AmbiguitiesAda, or Ardor (supposedly, haven't read it yet)>>25175320Invisible Cities>>25175488Recognitions
>>25174930improvised munitions handbook, us army
>>25173911What's this from? It looks like AI, but I can't be sure.
>>25176158>Invisible CitiesI fucking LOVE the Mongol Empire, thanks anon.
>>25176176It barely has anything to do with the mongols, it's more of an excuse to write abstract/geometric/poetic prose. Neither Marco Polo, not Kublai Khan are described in a particularly realistic way. Calvino was an Oulipo member, and it shows very strongly here.IN VAIN, GREAT-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tellyou how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the sameas telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between themeasurements of its space and the events of its past: the height of a lamppost and the distancefrom the ground of a hanged usurper’s swaying feet; the line strung from the lamppost to therailing opposite and the festoons that decorate the course of the queen’s nuptial procession; theheight of that railing and the leap of the adulterer who climbed over it at dawn; the tilt of aguttering and a cat’s progress along it as he slips into the same window; the firing range of agunboat which has suddenly appeared beyond the cape and the bomb that destroys theguttering; the rips in the fish net and the three old men seated on the dock mending nets andtelling each other for the hundredth time the story of the gunboat of the usurper, who some saywas the queen’s illegitimate son, abandoned in his swaddling clothes there on the dock. As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. Adescription of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell itspast, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings ofthe windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of theflags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.
>>25176196Although you might enjoy the interludesKublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the citiesvisited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetianwith greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his. In the livesof emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories wehave conquered, and the melancholy and relief of knowing we shall soon give up any thought ofknowing and understanding them. There is a sense of emptiness that comes over us at evening, withthe odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood ashes growing cold in the braziers, adizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble on the fallow curves of the planispheres where theyare portrayed, and rolls up, one after the other, the despatches announcing to us the collapse of thelast enemy troops, from defeat to defeat, and flakes the wax of the seals of obscure kings who beseechour armies’ protection, offering in exchange annual tributes of precious metals, tanned hides, andtortoise shell. It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to usthe sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin, that corruption’s gangrene has spread too far tobe healed by our scepter, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their longundoing. Only in Marco Polo’s accounts was Kublai Khan able to discern, through the walls and towersdestined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites’ gnawing.
>>25176199Is it at least entertaining?
>>25175320The Making of Tron by William Kallay>>25175488Strange Travelers by Gene Wolfe>>25175906The Third Force by Marc Laidlaw>>25176092Glory by Alfred Coppel
>>25176201Not in the traditional sense, no. Did you enjoy those two passages I sent? Multiply it by 50 and that's the whole book. It's more of a puzzle or an abstract art piece.If On A Winter's Night A Traveler on the other hand is very entertaining.
>>25176227>The Making of TronNo.
>>25176239Project Pope by Clifford Simak, then.
>>25176277Hmmm... Maybe. But I'm leaning towards "no"
>>25175320The Myst books
>>25176305Already read those.
>>25176163Robert Crumb, ‘Frosty and his Anti-Establishment Pals’
>>25175036Stolen Tongues maybe
>>25175488seconding gene wolfe>>25175715maybe you would enjoy the scene in "ruby ridge: in our own words" in which a boy sees his dog shot by feds, kills one, and is shot in the back as he flees. it happens on a wooded slope.>>25176227the books carol from pluribus writes>>25175906i don't have a great rec for this, but moscow stations is a russian novel about a drunk trying to get home by subway to tell his wife he's been fired. roadside picnic is soviet sci fi about an alien crash site. the metro videogames look like this and have an accompanying book series. maybe something by lem?
>>25177751The worst audiobook performance of all time.
>>25177916What is the story behind this kek>>25174930Story of The Eye
>>25177936someone stole his tongue
>>25175648Conspiracy Against The Human Race
>>25177902I don’t need to tell anyone what book goes with that image do I?
>>25178136Blood Music?
>>25175076Well, those other anons already said it wasn’t a book but I thought id look this up and it’s a children’s cartoon. Maybe head back to tumblr or something that’s where they discuss kids’ cartoons like that.>>25175320Récoltes et Semailles by Grothendieck>>25177936Perhaps something by JG Ballard. Atrocity exhibition>>25178150Ice by Anna Kavan>>25178618The Sorrows of Young WertherAnyway here’s my pic
>>25178150Ice by Dukaj
>>25178627Gravity's Rainbow
>>25178627>The Sorrows of Young WertherAs it would happen, I was the individual you're replying to and that is my favourite book.
>>25174930Agostino by Alberto Moravia.
>>25178909The Sailor Who Fell With Grace From The Sea by Mishima
>>25179789Megami Tensei books, Amygdalatropolis
>>25178776Excellent taste, I suppose you were thinking the same as I when you posted it?>>25178704That’s about right. It’s quintessential unwanted erection-core (well sort of)
>>25177936never read it but this appears in the cover of "modern art and the death of culture">>25178618this always makes me think of a scene from dostoyevsky's demons, though that's hard to recommend unless you've already read a bit of dostoyevsky >>25178627>coomer problemsportnoy's complaint>>25178909mishima's "boiled rice nationalism"
>>25180202Collected Stories, Breece D'J Pancake
>>25180335Death in Venice
>>25179799Bambi's Children by Felix Salten.>>25178627Technically /co/, but, Le Bandard Fou by Moebius>>25179789A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle>>25177936A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick>>25177919The Kane Trilogy by Karl Edward Wagner
>>25180582Something by Angela Carter maybe
