What is/are your favorite weird fiction bewk(s)?
>>25600319Looks like one of those gay Murakami covers
>>25600326Didn't ask
>>25600319Cleave the Sparrow by Jonathan Katz. Not even really sure how I happened upon it but it's a hell of a ketamine trip in book form.
Mieville's The Scar introduced me, but KJ Bishop's The Etched City remains my favourite.
Blue Lard translated by Our Lord and Saviour of Literature Maximus D. Lawton
Still one of the biggest mindfucks I've ever read.
To that dumbass who doesn't know what good is, why is Dante a good a writer but that hick who wrote Hank the Cowdog isn't?
>>25600319Vance's The Dying earth is an entertaining read, especially if you are interested in weird vocabulary and prose, but also it does an excellent job at giving you a sense of an extremely alien world.
I know it seems trivial, but Phail's writing is clearly is not good.How could you possibly write something good without a soul?Let's start with that.Boo.
>>256022180rnivhk8
I don't know how I found Chariots of the Gods out of nowhere, but Tyson's not why.But I could've had a copy of Ulysses on my desk in English class just to convince my teacher I have read and understood this, without actually having done either.Because I'm that fucking smart.But the fact I'm the one who really wrote it?Also trippy as shit.I'm going to leave some dumbass connection between Finnegan's Wake and Revolution 9, and sure, The Divine Comedy, which strangely doesn't work exactly how you think.Because if it did, everyone would laugh at The Divine Comedy.But once you get the joke?Can't stop laughing.Because then you'll realize the last line is how I prove Universal Reconciliation turns God into a cuck, which is exactly what I believed at the time.Eat a fucking dick.
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>>25602269So I start to think like you?Rather wouldn't.
>>25602263This looks like a benzo post
>>25602275To you.
I AM THE GREATEST WRITER IN EXISTENCE.STOP THINKING ANYTHING ELSE BUT MINE DESERVE TO BE READ.
>>25600319Is Borges weird? I think he's weird.
>>25602323I have no idea.
Ok, so, I hear that Unsapients doing nothing but fleecing in their homes will certainly lead to global economic collapse, so now they can't.
>>25602325Well I'm reading Ficciones right now, and I'm a big Burrough's fan for context. Burroughs is weird, intentionally so, but Borges is like... conceptually weird. The first story about the ontology of the fake book with the fake planet is fascinating as he lists the philosophical references then applies them in reverse, and also applies the ontology to the real fake world in the book. And the story about the man rewriting Don Quixote is equally fascinating, how the authorship fundamentally changes the meaning of identical text, and every text becomes a masterpiece if you imagine Joyce or Hemmingway wrote it, then applied their context to it. The first story also has this neat section where it talks about how both mirrors and conception are abominable as they proliferate the spread of man and how it's in parallel to the fake planet's like... I cant really describe it without a gigantic essay.Anyways, the prose is fairly straight forward. Conceptually, it's pretty fucking weird.
I've never read Quixote, but I know Cervantes works at the NSA, so want to know what he thought at the time and also what he was doing, along with how windmills can be seen as particularly giant, but I do get the point of riding a donkey, what nobleman wouldn't?I don't know how this helps the world at all, but I also don't feel it really needs to.
>>25602344have you read Henry Miller?
>>25602363Nope, but if you're suggesting him based in that rant, I'm interested.
>>25602365more based on Burroughs (and Kerouac/Beats) than Borges. I just got The Aleph recently but haven't read any Borges.Miller starts off kinda normal albeit with lots of fucks and cunts, uncensored reality, and then suddenly goes off on wild, visionary, surreal, mind-blowing tangents.I'm reading Tropic of Capricorn atm
>>25602376Hell yeah, I'll pick it up. I try to emulate burroughs in my personal writing, so I feel that's a glowing review.
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