I need to rant about this shit. I haven't read a book cover

>tfw too pleb for baby's first flashy Post-Modern novel

>Look at me, I can't handle a multi-layered narrative because I'm an utter pleb - meh meh MEH!
Get off /lit/.

>>9173702
I disliked this book. Blue font and erratic formatting doesn't exalt the underlying writing to anywhere near praiseworthiness in my view.

>inb4 "read ergodic literature pleb"

Funny, I was actually about to ask if there were any books similar to this. I actually enjoyed the rambling parts about a variety of subjects and feel like I learned a lot. I loved the atmosphere as well but I don't necessarily need another in the horror genre, more interested in the same feel.

>>9175045
The poetry of Robert Frost.

>>9173702
>realism
>the Navidson Record was written by an old blind schizo
>expecting something real

You played yourself.

>>9173702

desu this sounds like your fault. You didn't do the research and know about the academic satire and shit.

>>9175126
Yeah, not quite sure what you thought was realistic here. Not only do the footnotes regularly reference non-existent works, Truant regularly mentions that the works don't exist.

You've got a book here about a schizophrenic editing and transcribing another book about a film that neither exists in our universe nor the schizophrenic's, which was ostensibly written by a blind man who couldn't have possibly seen the film.Plays pretty loosey goosey with reality right from the start. The narrator straight up tells you he is lying to you early on with the water heater bit, and is obviously in a mentally ill state.

>>9175045
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Compact by Maurice Roche
The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett

>>9175045
Borges

>>9175164
Just ordered Pale Fire. That looks amazing, thanks. I've got your other recommendations in a list for when I'm done.

>>9175172
Best place to start, in your opinion?

>>9175202
Not him, but as one who holds Borges as his favorite author, a copy of the collection "Labyrinths" is good. If you think you're willing to commit to all of his fictions (he only wrote short stories) you can get a complete collected fictions at Barnes and Nobles. My ex bought it for me a month before dumping me. Unfortunately, the translation is inferior. I suggest starting with Labyrinths.

>>9175202
Also not him, but for Borges I honestly think it's best to just get the Penguin edition 'Collected Fictions' as it contains all his fiction works. It's about 500 pages, and is probably the most cost effective way to read Borges, as it is commensurately priced to any of his smaller collections, and you're likely to want to read all his work anyways once you've started. He has a very efficient style and his work is quite digestible.

Just get 'Collected Fictions' and read it chronologically, which I think is the best way to read Borges, as there are many latent/developing influences in his writing that are best appreciated when reading him chronologically, i.e. his incipient blindness, etc.

Also I second the recommendation of 'Pale Fire.' It is wonderful.

>>9175163
the lovers and haters of this book either take it way too seriously and proclaim it's the most mindfucky work ever and changed their lives or scoff it off as a gimmicky meme, there's some truth to both but I hate these people.

Ergodic "literature" is a meme. Just like concrete poetry or anything like that.