What are the best stories involving pigs? Don't say Animal Farm.

Your mom's diary desu

A confederacy of dunces

The best book involving cops?

>>24551077
nice

check out the film Upstream Color

>>24551063 (OP)
Hogg

>PKD - Beyond lies the Wub
It's the most iconic, classic philosophical pige story. Also the first one in volume 1 of PKD's Collected Stories, which you should start reading right now!

>>24551260
This actually sounds interesting

>>24551063 (OP)
Pig Tales (Truismes)

Charlotte’s Web
House on the Borderland (has pig demon things)

>>24551063 (OP)
I love pigs. Not sure which are better – cats or pigs. Sometimes I like cats better, and sometimes I like pigs better.

Anyway, <pic attached> is a pretty decent children's book. (Alison Uttley also wrote ‘The Country Child’, which is worth a look.)

>>24551063 (OP)
The best pig in literature is I suppose The Empress Of Blandings. She is an enormously fat Berkshire Sow who is the pride and joy of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle in books by P. G. Wodehouse.


She is introduced in a short story called ‘Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!’. Lord Emsworth is worried because she isn't eating. A young man visiting from America explains that this problem can be solved by Pig Calling, where you exort them to feed. But you have to do it right.

Some other people try to follow his advice, with no success. Eventually, at the story's climax, he arrives and does it himself:—


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Resting his hands on the rail before him, James Belford swelled before their eyes like a young balloon. The muscles on his cheekbones stood out, his forehead became corrugated, his ears seemed to shimmer. Then, at the very height of the tension, he let it go like, as the poet beautifully puts it, the sound of a great Amen.

‘Pig-HOOOOO-OOO-OOO-O-O-ey!’

They looked at him, awed. Slowly, fading off across hill and dale, the vast bellow died away. And suddenly, as it died, another, softer sound succeeded it. A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant. And, as he heard it, Lord Emsworth uttered a cry of rapture.

The Empress was feeding.


— P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!’

>>24551063 (OP)
charlotte's web

almost anything by dick king smith

>>24551063 (OP)
Lonesome Dove

>>24551063 (OP)
Gus in Lonesome Dove has a couple of pigs. Here’s the start of the book:—


WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake — not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail.

“You pigs git,” Augustus said, kicking the shoat. “Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.” It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake. Pigs on the porch just made things hotter, and things were already hot enough.


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They don't have major roles, but they do come on the cattle drive. Probably their finest hour is when the group encounters a grizzly bear. Everyone panics, all the cows run away, etc. The only creatures who don't care are the pigs, who take advantage of the commotion to eat some potatoes that have spilled out of a wagon.

Pigs are magnificent.

>>24551063 (OP)
Lord of the Flies

>>24551063 (OP)
Cormac McCarthy doesn't seem to value pigs as much as he should. Harrogate steals a pig from someone and kills it in Suttree, doesn't he?

Then there is the strange quasi-biblical herd in Outer Dark. What’s this about? No-one knows:—


ON A GOOD spring day he paused to rest at the side of the road. He had been walking for a long time and he had been hearing them for a long time before he knew what the sound was, a faint murmurous droning portending multitudes, locusts, the advent of primitive armies. He rose and went on until he reached the gap in the ridge and before long he could see the first of them coming along the road below him and then suddenly the entire valley was filled with hogs, a weltering sea of them that came smoking over the dusty plain and flowed undiminished into the narrows of the cut, fanning on the slopes in ragged shoals like the harried outer guard of schooled fish and here and there upright and cursing among them and laboring with poles the drovers, gaunt and fever-eyed with incredible rag costumes and wild hair.

Holme left the road and clambered up the rocky slope to give them leeway. The first of the drovers was beating his way obliquely across the herd toward him, the hogs flaring and squealing and closing behind him again like syrup. When he gained the open ground he came along easily, smiling up to where Holme sat on a rock with his feet dangling and looking down with no little wonder at this spectacle.

Howdy neighbor, called out the drover. Sweet day, ain't she?

It is, he said. Whereabouts are ye headed with them hogs if you don't care for me astin?

Crost the mountain to Charlestown.

Holme shook his head reverently. That there is the damndest sight of hogs ever I seen, he said. How many ye got?

The drover had come about the base of the rock and was now standing looking down with Holme at the passing hogs. God hisself don't know, he said solemnly.

>>24551063 (OP)
Achmed and His Three Wives, from The Arabian Nights

>>24551063 (OP)
Pigs play a prominent role in Hannibal by Thomas Harris. The trouble is that a) the book is not very good and b) the pigs are not really sympathetic.

If anyone cares, an evil millionaire wants to capture Lecter and feed him alive to man-eating pigs, but Lecter escapes and the millionaire ends up getting eaten himself. So I suppose in a way the pigs become a force of impartial justice, which is something. But that's still not enough to make the book worth reading.

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>>24551063 (OP)
I have some imitation pork, and also Chapter X of Jude the Obscure where they butcher a pig, except I hate Jude the Obscure.
>However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. The blood flowed out in a torrent instead of in the trickling stream she had desired. The dying animal’s cry assumed its third and final tone, the shriek of agony; his glazing eyes riveting themselves on Arabella with the eloquently keen reproach of a creature recognizing at last the treachery of those who had seemed his only friends.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/153/pg153-images.html#chap10

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>>24551706
Nice. House on the Borderland also deserves a second mention >>24551345, since I think the pig-ness of the monsters is significant in making them uncanny; pigs have an abhuman characteristic that's different from primates in how unlike us they are and how little they care.

>>24551747
Fucking kek

deliverance by james dickey

>>24551063 (OP)
Pearls before swine

Did you guys read that story by Roald Dahl about the slaughterhouse? What was that about?

>>24552890
It wasn't about a slaughterhouse; that just featured at the end. It wasn't about anything much, except perhaps the way the world treats very naive people.

>>24553089
I was afraid it was about animal cruelty

>>24552765
Ouch

>>24551077
In that case The Ankh-Morpork City Watch series.

>>24551063 (OP)
Start with the Greeks.

>>24551063 (OP)
Fucking love pigs, man