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more specifically recommend great, out of the ordinary literature thank you |
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you might have heard of ulysses |
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House of Leaves , Mark Z. Danielewski This is one fucked up book. It's certainly out of the ordinary, as you request. One long spooky mindfuck Choke : Chuck Palahniuk Well, if you liked Fight Club, this is a must. Siddhartha , Hermann Hesse To put it very simply, this book changed my life (Seriously). Look them up on Amazon.com and see if it's for you! It's my 3 favourite books at least. |
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Indeed I have. Thank you for the tip. Plz also recommend some oustanding literature written in the past 5 years give or take |
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Thank you dirty priest, keep 'em comin' y'all |
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Meg's Eggs. First book I ever read and still yet to be beaten. |
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and did you read my mind cos yeah I liked Fight Club |
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Meg's Eggs Synopsis: "A board book version of this classic Meg and Mog story. This time, one of Meg's spells goes spectacularly wrong. She is trying to conjure up eggs for tea and although she manages to make three eggs, they look rather different to usual. One by one they hatch and reveal - dinosaurs! Meg, Mog and Owl manage to look after the first two dinosaurs but then a fearsome Tyrannosaurus hatches and wants to eat them all! Meg has to try another spell to save from being eaten - again it doesn't go quite to plan but at least they're safe!" |
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DINOSAURS! |
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thank you mr. reverse braindance |
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When my brother bought his copy of House of leaves, he was flirting with this cute employe in a book store. He's a big book worm, so they were casually talking about litterature back and forth. Suddenly he got drawn to this book on the shelve, that just had some weird aura around it. When he picked up house of leaves, she just blurted out "no, not that. That book is just... I don't know... Theres something evil about it... That book scared me" He bought it, and it scared the shit out of him (He was 28 at the time). True story! He lend it to me, and it scared the shit out of me as well. It's not just a book. It's this weird occult experience. It's a book within a book, descriping some very strange things, that i wont go into detail with, as it's my hope that you will read it. My english is in no way sufficiant to descripe the weirdness of this book, i can only reccomend you to get a copy of it ASAP. When you're done reading it, it's also a beautiful book in itself, that you can show to people, and make them go WOW. |
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Well, then "Survivor" (Also by the imposible to spell PALAHNIUK) is a must read as well as "Choke". I'm not really a book man myself, but as soon as i've read 10 pages of both those books, i finished them within 2 days. Real page turners. Fun, inspiring and entertaining books they are. |
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Ok, you do understand that I now HAVE to read House of leaves don't you? And yeah Survivor also immediately drew my attention |
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great, out-of-the-ordinary modern literature: White Noise by Don DeLillo As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Ulysses by James Joyce The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien |
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It's simply great. You wont regret it a bit. It's a book that's worth every dollar (or other currency). It's so scary, yet clever. It's not about some big scary monster or some other corny shit, somehow this book just goes in and stirrs up some very fundemental human fears, in a way that i've never experienced any book doing in my grown up life. It's not that difficult to read actually. It's a big book, which might be off-putting, but it's till easy to read in a way. It works on many many levels. It's also supposed to be read as a book, and only as a book. It would be impossible to make it into a film - You will understand if you read it. It's one of those books that you will sometimes glare at, at your shelve, reminding you of that eerie feeling, and you will force your friends to read it, just to have someone to talk about it to. Promise me to read it, and reply in this thread if you do!!! |
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From the description I'm thinking maybe David Lynch could pull it off? |
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I love David Lynch, but this book is simply mean to be read as a book. Revealing a bit here, some poster on Wikipedia did a better job than i ever could. "House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee. Truant is searching for a new apartment when his friend Lude tells him about the apartment of the recently deceased Zampanò, a blind, elderly man who lived in the same building as Lude. In Zampanò's apartment, Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampanò that turns out to be a very academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record. The rest of the novel alternates between Zampanò's report on the fictional film, Johnny's autobiographical interjections, a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom, and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes. There is also a fourth narrator, Johnny's mother, whose voice is presented through a self-contained set of letters titled The Whalestoe Letters. Each narrator's text is printed in a distinct font, making it easier for the reader to follow the occasionally challenging format of the novel." |
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And what is it he discovers? "Zampanò's narrative deals primarily with the Navidson family: Will Navidson, a photojournalist (partly based on Kevin Carter), his partner Karen Green, an attractive former fashion model, and their two children, Chad and Daisy. Upon returning from a trip to Seattle, the Navidson family discovers a change in their home. A closet-like space shut behind an undecorated door appears inexplicably where previously there was only a blank wall. A second door appears at the end of the closet, leading to the children's room. As Navidson investigates this phenomenon, he finds that the internal measurements of the house are somehow larger than external measurements. Initially there is less than an inch of difference, but as time passes the interior of the house is found to be seemingly expanding, while maintaining the same exterior proportions. A third change asserts itself: a dark, cold hallway in their living room wall that, according to the laws of physics, should extend out into their yard, but doesn't. Navidson films this strange place, looping around the house to show where the space should be and clearly is not. The fictional filming of this anomaly comes to be referred to as "The Five and a Half Minute Hallway"." Hopefully, this will get you to want to know the rest :P |
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Jorge Luis Borges short stories They're not so unknown, but they're definately out of the ordinary and great. I got the big book of Andrew Hurley translations at Friends Bookstore, it's worth a thousand worlds to me. |
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:: Order Of The Assassins: The Psychology Of Murder: Colin Wilson |
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The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. (a little more of a mainstream pick, but oh well...) |
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(not that Dark Tower is ordinary. It's a fantasy/horror/western that has moments of outright Lynchiness scattered throughout) |
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If you like fantasy, check out the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. But be prepared to read through like 11 books, each like at least 500-600 pages. It's a long read, but really it's the best "story" I've ever really read. So good I read them twice. :P The author actually died in the last year or so, and the series isn't completed, but I've heard his son is going to complete it based on the manuscripts which Robert Jordan had completed. |
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Oh yeah that sucks so bad about Robert Jordan :( I read through book 4 in WoT a couple years back, but decided to put it on hold until the series is finished. I guess we can only hope the last book is in good hands. |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot |
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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
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ace. i am so immensely curious about that. it's very high on my 'to buy' list. have you read other stuff by him? if so, is wind-up bird a good one to start with? |
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the last temptation of christ - nikos kazantzakis in cold blood - truman capote american psycho and less than zero - bret easton ellis necroscope - brian lumley terrorizer mag in the loo |
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great choice. |
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Hans Küng - Does God Exist? An Answer For Today Friedrich Hayek - The Road to Serfdom |
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it's certainly great and out of the ordinary. |
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-sensing others- by frank talis it has everything a book needs + a hideous murderer with a ruler tattooed on his arm! |
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the dog climbing that tree is very cute, x-tomatic. ;o) |
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Napoleon A. Chagnon - Yanomamö: The Fierce People This rules. You don't need to be an academic to read and enjoy this, it's nicely presented and damn interesting. p.s Don't let the thread die. I'm interested in what you read. |
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forget the original instructions, just post any old thing... bah, this is futile. |
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Apt Pupil - short story by Stephen King mindblowing |
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seconding the Borges short stories, they're amazing. |
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Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance something different... best fantasy this side of Gene Wolfe Selected Poems: Robinson Jeffers some honest rustic poetry |
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fiction is overrated |
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art of seduction is good, i only read the first half because it got depressing . i also liked the game by neil strauss |
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"Petterson’s kinship with Knut Hamsun, which he has himself acknowledged, is palpable in Hamsun’s “Pan,” “Victoria” and even the lighthearted “Dreamers.” But nothing should suggest that his superb novel is so embedded in its sources as to be less than a gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader’s own experience of life." |
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SHOOT! ANNNUAL 1989 |
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Siddhartha is a good choice- Hesse is all about life changing literature. Another good book by Hermann Hesse is Narcissus and Goldmund. Beautiful poetic language, nature imagery and personal self discovery. Probably my favourite book ever. Also, Steppenwolf. |
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You even can read a fragment of it, wow. |
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I've read them all, and i completely agree. Siddharta was just the one that had the biggest impact on me! |
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i'm reading philip pullman's his dark materials if you've never read the neverending story read that far better than the movie which cuts out the entire second half |
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joe dispenza - evolve your brain any osho is also recommended |
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Isaac Asimov - The Complete Robot |
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his dark materials is an epically wonderful series. i love those books so much i don't think i'll watch the movie. |
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