I would like one (1) ambitious, thematic, and symbolic piece of artistry—one that is eternally relevant, understands the world in a way you will never fully comprehend, and is devoid of any slop. It refuses genre labels or tropes for the sake of marketing, and it can be consumed 1,000 times, with the 1,001st still offering a new way of seeing it. It is meta in the sense that it says more about the observer and this world than it does about the content itself; a work where every character is more real than the people you see every day, and where even 0.5% of it is worth 50 dissertations.Also it needs to actually be interesting. Not boring, universal in understanding and with annoying "flowery prose"to describe a sandwich or endless metaphors to where you don't even remember if they were describing a sandwich or not.
Read screenplays of classic movies. They are great stuff.
>>25544864Unironically picrel, but you will never read it because you’re a faggot
>Also it needs to actually be interesting. Not boring, universal in understanding and with annoying "flowery prose"to describe a sandwich or endless metaphors to where you don't even remember if they were describing a sandwich or not.Just read ai summaries of novels then, what’s the point?>>25544869I doubt he’d read any book recommended
>>25544864Moby-DickUlyssesGravity's Rainbow
until you give me an example of a book you actually like any recommendation is pointless
>/tv/ hereI prefer /tv/ there. So go back
>>25544864No, /tv/ here >>>/tv/
War and PeaceDivine ComedyThe WastelandHamlet
>>25544864>can I hook up an IV and mainline academia?Kek. No, Anon. You can't.Climbing the mountain is the journey, not the view from the top.
>>25544864Start with the Greeks.
>>25544864You won't understand it so what's the point?
Whichever book features a protagonist who is literally you but bolder; a world that truly gets you; a love interest who eerily resembles an idealized version of your fourth-grade crush and does nothing but swoon over the hero; a favorite genre cleverly subverted to make you feel cooler for enjoying it; a villain who is essentially you pushed to the extreme, delivering monologues you would give if you were that deeply hurt; bold, darkish, sophisticated, yet safely agreeable politics; and an overarching story that flatters your intelligence while serving as fetishized wish fulfillment for your highly specific, yet vaguely universal demographic.
>>25544864Most interesting shit post on the board right now, my apologies if its pasta, seems original to me. Unironically some of the answers given so far are worthy contenders, yet still possibly fall short. I have a few books in mind that come close to answering these requirements, but I am not telling you because then it would make the thing I like less rare, and this is not favorable to me.
>>25545477you don’t generally want recs from this kind of person anyway.
>>25544984First two are good recs.>>25545060All good recs.
>>25544864thats not my problem Im busy reading
>>25544864kill your tv.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pov0MKuyJfg&ra=m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>25544864Finnegans Wake
