ITT Name three books that best describe the aesthetic of your

>bonus if you're not pretentious as fuck
>house of leaves
???

>>9622994
never said I wasn't pretentious as fuck


N I G G A

Joyce, Woolf and Pynchon.

>>9622986
Mary Renault
Chuck Palahniuk
???

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Thomas Ligotti
Liam O'Flaherty

Steps
Child of God
The Wasp Factory

part edgelord, part lit pretensions

At Swim-Two-Birds
Under the Volcano
Gospel of Luke

Alright I'm game
I hope they serve beer in hell
Guns germs and steel
World War Z

>>9622986
The Story Of The Eye
Teatro Grottesco
Naked Lunch

Nicholas Nickleby
Lolita
Blood Meridian

My diary desu
My diary desu
My diary desu

>>9622986
>gaiman
you're fucked

>>9623013

AHAHAHAHAHAH

I'm not proud of it but
>The Consumer
>One Bullet Away
>Fight Club

>>9622986
>pretentious

go back to r/books

>>9623067
>>9623089
>>9623104
>>9623116
Would read

Glasslands by Karen Traviss
The Bible by God
Generation X by Douglas Coupland

>>9623197
>The Consumer
my fucking negro, one of my favorite books of all time, absolutely visceral, surreal yet clear minded.
Fight Club is pretty overrated though, that book always felt like scraps from golden age Bret Easton Ellis to me.

>>9623127
wow Gaiman isn't even bad ok?

>>9623213
>The Bible by God
Are we talking kjv

>Hilarotragoedia - Giorgio Manganelli
>Cities of the Red Night/Nakes Lunch - William Burroughs
>Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist - Antonin Artaud

>>9623104
You gonna write something to satisfy the hard on I've got from reading that or what?

>>9623334
wow go back to r*ddit OK?

>>9623346
I'm writing a novella/novel called Drop Hammer. It has the philosophical pessimism of Teatro, the farcical satire and black humour of NL and the surreal, sexual symbolism for auto-biographical events of Story In The Eye.

>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
>Storm of Swords
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I like to write Gonzo)

The Road
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Call of The Wild

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>>9623013

>cortazar
>dosto
>tolstoy
i am not good

>Montaigne's Essays (Frame)
>Dickinson's Letters
>Robert Louis Stevenson's Essays
>[since the first is a translation] Aubrey's Brief Lives

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>>9622986
Blood Meridian
The Old Man and the Sea
Absalom, Absalom!

>>9623947
that sounds comfy as shit desu

dfw
pynchon
rupi kaur

>>9622986
Mao II
The Trial
In Search of Lost Time

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>>9622986
>melvile
>austen
>bronte (pick one)

>>9622986
I really don't get the love for Call of Cthulhu. It is great but I don't think it anywhere near Lovecraft's best works or not to the point where every other person beats their dick to it like some pop culture reference.

The dreams in the witches house, is my favourite lovecraft story.

>>9625226
It's probably the best one to use as shorthand for "generally Lovecraftian", if only memetically. To be fair, it's probably the most convoluted and epistemologically realistic thing he's written - at least, as far as multiple concentric point of views are involved.
I'm more of a Charles Dexter Ward/At the Mountain of Madness Guy myself, though I have a soft spot for shorter pieces like The Temple or The Dunwich Horror.

>>9625343
The Dunwich horror is also amazing. That was first Lovecraft I read, really good.

>Holy Qur'an
>The Genealogy of Morals
>Cantos

>>9622986
I'm going for the pinnacle of aestheticism:

>The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Sound and the Fury
>To the Lighthouse

>>9622986
>Books
Would make more sense for authors right?
In that:
>Hesse
>Tolkien
>Dostoevsky

>>9625686
If I had to say books I'd say:
>Siddhartha
>The Road
>Dune

Fernando Pessoa - Book of Disquiet
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Marcel Proust - Swanns Way
Italo Calvino - If on Winter Night Traveller

David Markson's quartet
Post-Recognitions Gaddis
The Talmud

>Brief Interviews
>The Stand
>Dubliners

>>9622986
>>9623753
decent for schlock
>>9623013
>>9624129
>>9624111
>>9625610
>>9625648
provide writing sample or else
>>9623100
>>9624366
>>9624412
>>9625694
>>9625686
believable
>>9623116
>>9623947
good
>>9623213
>by god

>>9625209
awful and delusional. That screenshot. Anon please no.

>In The Garden of The North American Martyrs - Tobias Wolff
>The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
>East of Eden - John Steinbeck

>>9625735
Astute observations. Really I think everyone saying how they believe they write should post an excerpt with it. Not for crit so much as to determine how delusional some people are.

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>>9625735
>provide writing sample or else
I posted this in the critique thread yesterday, I'll repost it here I guess. I am this guy: >>9624129. No bully pls anon :^(

For what I'm trying to write now -

Damon Runyon (maybe not as heavily stylised but theres definitely shades in there, completely stroked the whole anonymous narrator thing)
Roddy Doyle
Trotsky's Autobiography / most of his journalism

>>9625930
Not the dude who said to provide examples, but I've only read McCarthy out of Hemingway (just not enough to recognize his style) and Faulkner.
I do see traces of McCarthy in there, so you're at least a go for that one in my book.

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

>>9626026
>the unnamable
So, brilliant but unreadable?

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>>9626025
Thanks for reading it anon, means a lot. Come post in the critique thread, maybe I can return the favor

>>9625930
This is pretty good, anon. Unlike the other anon, I can see traces of your authors. McCarthy is in the form of sentence structure--great use of ands and prepositions and variation. Hemingway is present here too, a little less in sentence structure and more in theme (There's a McCarthy vibe here too, obviously).

>There's an instrument made of something like the dried stomach of a sheep wrapped in leather, saddle-stitched and stuck with bronze chanters that makes an awful shrieking sound and some son of a bitch on board is playing it but playing it wrong.

Damn good sentence that caught me off guard. Whereas the other anon who posted a sample looked like someone with a thesaurus nearby, you're natural. And here when I read this, I see you the writer as a character. Definitely Hemingway here.

If I had to offer a criticism, I would like to see more emphasis on character or action rather than description, but I'm afraid I don't know how to articulate that well enough, and even if I could that might be my personal preference to what I like reading.

>>9622986
>St. John's Revelation
>Helen in Egypt
>Epic of Gilgamesh

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>>9626080
Brings a tear to a man's eye. Thank you for reading it, anon. I don't really have anybody to share with and have never published a damn thing. Your feedback and impressions are super valuable, thanks for taking the time man.

>>9626039
I oddly enough have, but what I posted is kinda long. It's up to you. I'd certainly appreciate it.

>>9625235 is the first post of it and it's 3 and some change long. If you at all get bored or it just sucks, feel free to drop it. I at least enjoyed reading yours!

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>>9626132
Cheers, I'll have a read-- standby friendo. Have another comfy girl in the meantime

The Wendigo
Death in Midsummer
Neuromancer

>>9622986
First off, OP, it can only be pretentious if untrue.

Here's mine:

>Jack London, Call of the Wild
>Borges, Labyrinths
>Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

=???

Poets would be better for me:

>Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
>Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
>Whitman, Leaves of Grass

>The true supreme and hidden influence is The Bible.

>>9626132
I should note I was a tad hasty in posting it, and have already since edited it slightly more. A few odd phrases touched up and I fixed what I believed were all typos, not very much. It's still mostly as I intended. Just wanted to know if it is enjoyable enough to read and if it warrants a curiosity for more since its an intro.

>>9626215
>>9626096
here
post a poem plz

>>9623027
Palahniuk has to be one of the most influential writers alive

Ovid's Metamorphoses
Thucydides
Water Margin
Infinite Jest

All right that's four, but fuck the rules.

I write in more than one style

>>9626246
I just misclicked and lost a post explaining why you're wrong, but you're still wrong.

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>>9626246
>Bret Easton Ellis' sloppy seconds, scraps and left overs
>implying anyone except actual Palahackniuk gives a shit about anything other than Fight Club
>"influential"

>>9626137
I'll take that is it wasn't too solid. Thanks anyway

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>>9626270

>>9626246
"No"

>>9622986
Borges
The Elementary Particles
Rings of Saturn

>>9626227
I only share my poetry with friends or family - unless it actually gets published someday.

I don't like to put it online, sorry - it's too personal.

>>9626036
the trick is to read them aloud.

you'll never get the sound out of your mind

>>9626246
For whom??

>>9626397
let me be your friend

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>>9626219
>>9626329
Hey brother, sorry had to sit for dinner, trying to give you some detailed feedback. Sorry it's taking me a while, keep the thread up in a tab

Ernest Hemingway.

>>9626401
12 year olds

Great Gatsby
Mrs. Dalloway
John Green

>The Magic Mountain
>In search of Lost Time
>Borges

Yeah, I know it sounds terrible. It is.

>>9626484
lol

grrm (use of themes in particular, not so much voice)
nabokov (coloring the text - "gods" really changed how i write)
vonnegut (character of speech)

The Recognitions
100 years of Solitude
Canterbury Tales