ResidentNihilist
02.18.22 | So yeah let me know. |
Mort.
02.18.22 | rare resident nihilist sighting
i got into books through young adult novels (as a teenager), stuff like patrick ness novels and darren shan. As i got a older this morphed into a love for dystopian fiction (i think a lot of people go down the young adult to dystopian fiction/sci-fi track), you know the popular stuff like 1984, fahrenheit 451 and brave new world. coincidentally fahrenheit 451 (and bradburys novels in general) stimulate my visual imagination pretty heavily so hopefully theyll do the same for you.
then i just started reading more sci-fi and philosophical lit, which covers a lot of sci-fi. went through a very heavy kurt vonnegut phase at one point.
kazuo ishiguro is a fantastic writer. jg ballard is cool. the gormenghast series is the best kept secret in fantasy/goth. china mieville is very good
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bloc
02.18.22 | Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is essential |
dedex
02.18.22 | > i think a lot of people go down the young adult to dystopian fiction/sci-fi track
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if you're into stimulating your visual imagination then yeah Mort's comment is where it's at. Babes like Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick are writers I always like reading |
budgie
02.18.22 | postwar by tony judt |
deathofasalesman
02.18.22 | herman hesse makes reading easy, and his words are beautifully chosen
siddartha
steppenwolf
demian |
Piglet
02.18.22 | As a starting point, you can't go wrong with some fast food fantasy that has video-game like gratification. Something like The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss for example. That book has like a 4.5 rating with 800k votes on goodreads for the simple reason that it's a page turner and the protagonist seemingly has the talent to reverse the entropy of the universe itself. To your point about wanting something that stimulates your visual imagination, Magician by Raymond E. Feist is great. The main character is called Pug and it's got some vivid, wide-ranging world building. Dune has a habit of conjuring up the image of the Namibian desert for a lot of people. For me, Shakespeare whips up the most layered and vivid imagery. Proust's writing also is mezmerizing, beyond comparison. But ultimately yeah, it depends on your taste. |
YoYoMancuso
02.18.22 | I don’t know what any of this says but I like the way the letters are shaped. |
kalkwiese
02.18.22 | Nihilist, can you give an example of a book you really like? Maybe that would be helpful |
KennyAlwaysDies
02.19.22 | Look up Piranesi. That’ll take you places, man. |
deathofasalesman
02.19.22 | read the nostalgia critic's autobiography |
porcupinetheater
02.19.22 | Read Virginia Woolf and if you don't like it go back to not reading |
ResidentNihilist
02.19.22 | Thanks guys,
@Kalkwiese In search of lost time by Proust |
robertsona
02.19.22 | I'd say Virginia Woolf is my favorite novelist historically as well, although these days I like things with a bit more Plot etc. so that the crazy aesthetic/spiritual revelations feel a bit more integrated into something I can latch onto |
naughtcturnal
02.19.22 | I would recommend the Discworld series |