Books or Lit-r-cha Recommendations

@Loid: If a Cold War World War III is up your alley, I highly recommend Ralph Peters' Red Army.

edited 25th Jun '11 6:46:06 PM by Breakerchase

Yuan: Oh! I've read that, but I need to read the rest of the series! Thanks for reminding me! :D

(...Borges and Eco count as 'weird'? 0_0 Italo Calvino is an Oulipo contributor, though, so preemptively agreed in that regard!)

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I always found Borges pretty surreal, and I only found Foucault's Pendulum particularly strange out of Eco's works (though I haven't read the newest one or The Island of the Day Before yet).

(PS: Geek Philosopher, pick up Finnegans Wake. Anthony Burgess' annotated version if you can.)

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I wouldn't call most of Borges' works weird in the same way as arthouse film, but maybe that's just me. 0_0

On that note, House Of Leaves is about an arthouse film on one level, so I might as well mention it. >:D

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^I probably don't watch enough arthouse films to judge ^^;. Pretty sure NGP has read House of Leaves, which is why I didn't recommend it.

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I need a quality and up-to-date book on evolutionary theory. Any ideas?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

Anyone know any good Horror novels besides Stephen King, Clive Barker, and H.P. Lovecrafts's stuff?

Burroughs and Joyce are what I'd call arthousy. Disclaimer: I haven't read an entire story of either's (for that reason). And I'll mention Illuminatus too.

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Let's see, there's House Of Leaves, and John Dies At The End, for meta-horror and horror comedy respectively. Also, I haven't read much of his yet, but Thomas Ligotti seems to write some good horror, worth taking a look at.

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&Hmmm, I will look at those, but do you know of anything that is NOT Cosmic Horror?

edited 12th Jul '11 6:08:44 PM by Galeros

...It's just occurred to me that most of what I like in Psychological Horror overlaps considerably with Cosmic Horror or is in another medium than literature... so, no. Sorry. :/

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No worries.

I'm looking for something based on Arthurian mythology. I've already read Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, and The Mists Of Avalon. (Along with miscellaneous medieval Welsh sources.)

I'd like something recent*

, but I'm open to older books as well. I don't care if the books are for children or adults.

Here Lies Arthur? It's not one of the author's best books, but it's far from the worst King Arthur based book I've read. That probably goes to Mordred, Bastard Son.

i. hear. a. sound.

The Once And Future King is an obvious one, but you might have read that already.

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The Squires Tales are aimed for something of a younger audience, but are absolutely riddled with Genius Bonuses, and hilarious besides.

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I'd just like to register my admiration for Noaq's Dalí moustache avatar.

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Aheheh. Shared! ^_^ (It's a reprisal against annebeeche for loathing Dali from the bottom of her soul. >:P )

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I really liked the Raven Oop North mythology in Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell and am liking the same in A Song Of Ice And Fire (specifically the Bran chapters).

Is there other fantasy like this? I get the impression that both have some connection to Welsh/Celtic mythology.

Hodor

^^Thank you!

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I'm looking for books that while deals with dark subjects, leans on idealistic side and ends in upbeat tone, that has not too complex prose and beautiful description of sceneries.

Either that or any humorous work with a First-Person Smartass who, while snarks a lot, but likes to help people and not in I Did What I Had to Do kind of way. Well, the last part is optional.

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It's a fairly obvious suggestion and I don't know whether you've already read them, but The Dresden Files tick everything on your checklist except the descriptions of scenery, which to my recollection don't feature heavily.

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Oh yes, I'm actually reading them right now, although where I live doesn't have that so I'm relying on the text I downloaded, which contains up to volume 6.

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Where Dresden Files has magical beings, Nightside broadens the scope to involve urban legends, folklore, angels, demons, mythagos, and Eldritch Abominations.

Haven't finished either series yet, but you might want to consider it.

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