yanquiuxo: 7 novels that slapped me in the face

Papa Universe 07.20.17	I shall drink to that
Riviere 07.20.17	Check out Finnegans Wake if you haven't already.
cylinder 07.20.17	1 yes!!! I really gotta get on 3 and 4 don't I.. a friend has been telling me about 3, says it's not necessarily super fun to read but provides an important perspective
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	Thanks Riviere, I was in need of something to start Joyce
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	Well, 3 is a completely different reading compared to 4 which hits on another level. People always recommends a good stomach for 4, and i guess they're right..
Thalassic 07.20.17	Blood Meridian dude Blood Meridian.
brainmelter 07.20.17	120 days of sodom is super violent and the book itself is pretty thick
dbizzles 07.20.17	Can't go wrong with Italo Calvino or Alan Moore (listening to Jerusalem by Alan Moore rn, actually.). Read 1984 for the first time this year as well and it was pretty great. I can vouch for Blood Meridian as well, just make sure you find a guide online to help you with the Spanish if you don't know any. House of Leaves took me places I'd never been before, fucking weird read and weird format, would recommend.
jtswope 07.20.17	House of Leaves [2]
Tunaboy45 07.20.17	120 Days is on my list I'm sort of working up the courage to read it 1984 is quite possibly the greatest piece of literature ever put to paper
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	i loved The Road and No Country for Old Men so i'll probably check it out
Tunaboy45 07.20.17	Also based on your list I'd rec Filth
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	a friend of mine is really into Welsh, but i only read Trainspotting. He also recommended me The Acid House
Papa Universe 07.20.17	Just gonna leave it here: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Haruki Murakami Peter May Hermann Hesse Gunter Grass William Gibson Bohumil Hrabal Jaroslav Seifert Eduard Morike
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	wonderful, unique
Tunaboy45 07.20.17	I've read 5 of his novels, Trainspotting, Porno, Ecstasy, Marabou Stork Nightmares and Filth. Loved all of them but Filth is so far my favourite.
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	apart from Murakami, Hesse and May i don't know the others
Tunaboy45 07.20.17	I've got Norwegian Wood to read once I've read the last 100 pages of Master and Margarita, looking forward to it!
dbizzles 07.20.17	'i loved The Road and No Country for Old Men so i'll probably check it out' It took me a while after reading for it to set in, but I think I like Blood Meridian better than The Road, tbh. The experience of No Country was kind of ruined for me because I had seen the movie already and it follows the book basically scene for scene. I'm real interested in his Border Trilogy, but I heard they have even more Spanish than Blood Meridian.
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	I also saw the film first but his prose really got me, so it was a pleasant reading.
dbizzles 07.20.17	I just... couldn't not see all the actor's faces or the scenes from the movie when reading it. I love building the pictures in my mind, that's one of the best parts about reading. It was still good.. I just wish I had read it before the movie.
brainmelter 07.20.17	yeah filth is good
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	strange enough but i like to picture the actors and imagine situations as sort of deleted scenes from the movie. At least relieves the lack of surprise for me. But sometimes, like when i read the 120 days of sodom, i had to picture different characters than the ones from Pasolini's film. i thought i couldn't, but the setting is completely different so it was natural
dbizzles 07.20.17	That's fair, I can see how you'd be able to do that.
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	Another strange case is Naked Lunch. Can't even picture a situation that there's another one going on, but you just can't stop reading. That's why i put it 1st. And Cronenberg did such a great job, if you read the book and know the story of Burroughs, then you're able to understand what's going on in the film and it's pure genius. but in this case if you see the film first, i think you'll end up with a complete mess in your head
dbizzles 07.20.17	Interesting. I haven't seen or read that.
yanquiuxo 07.20.17	strongly recommended. the real Beat manifesto imo
cylinder 07.20.17	honestly surprised a movie for naked lunch ever got made
Trebor. 07.20.17	notes from the underground is lit check no longer human
yanquiuxo 07.21.17	i will, seems interesting
dbizzles 07.21.17	You ever read And the Ass Saw the Angel by Cave?
verdant 07.21.17	naked lunch fucked me riiiiiiiight up, nice list
Satellite 07.21.17	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sL102pyaLg
yanquiuxo 07.21.17	''You ever read And the Ass Saw the Angel by Cave?'' nope, is it worth it?
dbizzles 07.21.17	It was another one of those books that took me to weird places. I didn't care for the first 20-30 pages, but it was really interesting and dark once it got going. Some really good imagery. It's pretty evident that its a debut novel and that Cave was using drugs heavily during the period in which he wrote it, but it definitely isn't incoherent in that respect. Has some killer one-liners and insults too. 4/5.