Thread 24854917

Please recommend skeptical fiction in which there is a sense that anything can happen and which is not based on taken external world for granted

>>24854917 (OP)
Gravity's Rainbow

>>24854970
Isn't that based on world war 2 or some real world gay shit like that?

>>24854970
is it actually good? sounds pseud heaven from google
>Dense allusions and references:
Pynchon saturates the text with allusions to science, history, and pop culture, which can be overwhelming, especially if you're unfamiliar with the topics.
Encyclopedic and maximalist style:
The book is often described as an "encyclopedic novel" because it incorporates a huge amount of information, from quantum mechanics to metaphysics, that seems to be deliberately included to create a complex, overwhelming experience

>>24855073
Sounds like faggot shit

>>24855086
desu more I read of his books I am tempted to pick some up just because Im bored and want some sprawling books to read
i liked Murakami and it sounds similarly midbrow pulp

>>24854917 (OP)
100 years of solitude

>>24855073
Nah, everything considered widely to be among the greatest accomplishments in literature is shit. You're right; reading isn't worthwhile at all. Contrarianism is the only way to live.

>>24854917 (OP)
John Hawkes was a gleeful anti-realist still ahead of his time. His work sustains the unpredictability you seek without compromising style or literary irony.

>>24854977
There's also that one time Tyrone (white) escaped from nigger rape by jumping down the toilet, that one time he saved a girl from an octopus and that one time a Sherman tank crashed a party.

>>24855370
I'm not OP, but that sounds interesting. I downloaded the Beetle Leg and I'll give it a read soon. I'll rec the Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet to you, which I read recently due to a mention on /lit/; not anti-realist, but the narrative is circuitous and heavy with symbolism that repeats through various objects and scenes. Now I'm reading In the Labyrinth and also enjoying it. Not sure if either of these would really appeal to OP, but oh well.

>>24855725
Awesome. Be advised that Beetle Leg is one of his harder books; I enjoyed it a lot more on reread. The Cannibal or The Lime Twig might be a more forgiving start, if you want less of a challenge for now.
>I'll rec the Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet to you
Thanks to either you or probably whoever shilled it to (You) this name has been in my head a while; I'll be hitting up some nice book stores soon and will keep an eye out for it. Seems I could get it online for cheap, which I'll resort to if the stores fail, but that's just not sovlfuvl.
>look at GR reviews
>first two I see are a five-star and a one
That assures me that even if I don't end up liking it, at least it won't be boring

>>24856238
>The Cannibal or The Lime Twig
I'll jump into the Beetle Leg but give those a shot if it doesn't work out. I'd heard a somewhat similar appraisal of the Voyeur from the anon posting about it: that it's the more straightforward of Grillet's novels. Anyway, hope you enjoy it, and thanks for the other recs.