/lit/ - Literature

>>6255224
Blindsight by Peter Watts has a bit of everything

>>6255255
Is it any good?

>>6255224
>4u

Got one recommendation. Any modern horror? Just finished Revival by King thought it was okay. I've pretty much read all of King 's books, even the hard boiled crime drama stuff. Anything concerning the Cthulhu mythos that's new?

I'm really drunk and OP's pic made me sad

anyway,

VanderMeer's The Weird is a compendium of "weird" stories - some horror, some unexplainable, some strange stories, about 1500 pages, they're sorted chronologically, so if you read them from end to start you get modern stuff

http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=609924&hilit=the+weird

David Cronenberg has written a novel, and it's not that bad. I hope he turns it into a film, it reads like his better films.

>>6255286
Don't be saddened by the picture. When I went to post I realized I didn't have a picture and I've only got a few on my tablet because it really only serves as a book and occasionally movies. That was just something that made me chuckle.

>>6255289
Greenberg. I think I looked at some of his books but never read them.

>>6255293
Fucking stupid Swype auto correct shit thinks it knows what I'm spelling. Cronenberg.

>>6255286
Was getting drunk part of your plan?

>>6255293
This is his one and only novel. Screenplays don't really count.

>>6255301
that is always part of my plan

a "central" pub in my hometown had its last evening tonight, we all had beer and whisky and schnaps

and now I'm alone in my place and I'm listening to Chet Faker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQopyK-M4Cw

>>6255306
Wait Cronenberg. My mistake, I didn't read your post right at first. He made eXistenz. I liked that movie, something about the biological gun tickled my fancy

>>6255292
that's alright my friend! it wasn't your intention. it's never anyone's intention, because you'll never know what's going to happen to the things you release into the world

>>6255224
I've recommended it so many times but whatever, Shipley's Dreams of Amputation is a really good example of horror/weird/cyberpunk done right. A bit dense, but whatever, I'm sure you can handle it. Was published two years ago, too.

Cyclonopedia, by Reza Negarestani, is another cool little book that basically mixes up continental philosophy with Lovecraftian, sci-fi horror. It's kind of a heavy read, but some of it is pure gold.

Surely you've read China Mieville? If not, Perdido Street Station and Looking for Jake are right up your alley.

If you accept recs outside books, I'd line up Tsutomu Nihei's mangas (Biomega and Blame!), Tsukamoto's movies (especially Tetsuo: The Iron Man) and I don't know, a few vidyas? The Amnesia series?

Of course, you could wait for my book but it'll take a while.

>>6255264
same anon, I'd say it was pretty good.

>>6255318
>Perdido Street Station
that book was fucking terrible.

>>6255318
Tetsuo was strange from what I remember but I was pretty drunk and more than a little high do I guess it's time to fire up the Netflix and see if the movie is on there. I'm always open to suggestions other than just “books". Amnesia scared the shit out of me. As did their other series but I can't think of the name of it. Can't say I've ever heard of some of the other works you have mentioned. But in the same vein Junji Ito always makes me smile.

>>6255331
It kinda was and kinda wasn't, but it had a few pretty interesting ideas. The quality of the execution is debatable, yeah.

>>6255333
I think I've seen the movie of Uzumaki. Pretty bonkers, thanks for giving me the name of the guy! Was Outlast the series you wanted to mention? And if you liked a Machine For Pigs, you'd do well to look into The Old City. I've been told it's really similar, more Lovecraftian. The soundtrack is amazing, too. And the Room, the little ipad game series, nicely fits the mood we're talking about I think.

>>6255376
Nah I never played machine for pigs but dark decent got me pretty good. I was trying to think of Penumbra.

I like Ito because he hits on some Lovecraftian stuff quite a bit, man's mental fragility, how small and frail man is, beings that drive you mad with knowledge or their pure blindness.

>>6255376
Isn't Uzumaki the one about the girl who can't die or the one with the fish monsters?

>>6255397
Nah, it's the one about spirals.

>>6255397
uzumaki is the cheap one with the spirals everywhere, the snails, the crazy father making all this weird spiral pottery

soooo maybe neither?

(The Manga was heaps better - the movie stopped somewhere in the middle of it. Junji Ito is great in general)

>>6255401
Ah yeah the spirals was a weird story. Never seen his movies but I might check them out.

>>6255405
Well the other two stories I mentioned are pretty good too. I think the one about the girl who can't die was made into a movie but I'm not sure.

>>6255420
What's the name?

>>6255420
The girl is Tomi and I knew it was

>>6255424
Gyo

>>6255425
>>6255430
Thanks, that's my evening sorted

>>6255436
Both are movies but the manga is pretty good too

I was trying to think of the other story by Junji Ito that had holes but not the one where they go "ddr ddr" but it turns out the one I'm thinking of was a hentai manga. Still, it's very disturbing, Junji Ito disturbing. I'm posting it in a spoiler link but you guys, be warned if lotus fingers or nipple bothered you this is going to make you run screaming. It upset my stomach to the point that I can hear it gurgling. http://g.e-hentai.org/g/303709/8c24ffab57/

>>6255495
that reminds me (and certainly was made because of) that old /b/ shoop with the holes in the fingertips, they look 100% identical
anyway got boner, thank you

>>6255501
That was lamprey finger. Lotus nipple is the other image. Google lotus nipple and enjoy the skin crawling images

>>6255442

Seconding manga rec, you should also give Hellstar Remina a shot too, it's bretty gud.

Pretty much anything by Ito is good, Mimi's Ghost Stories are all pretty great, and Army of One, the Hanging Balloons, the Back Alley and Secret of the Haunted Mansion are all good shorts too.

>>6255515
That was pretty good. I thought that one was cool.

>>6255515
It's that image the one about the brother who is super greasy?

Anyone hit some good postapocalyptic stuff?

>>6255318

Seconding Cyclonopedia. Helps if you've read 1000 Plateaus, but that's pretty good and strange too while you're at it.

Kenji Siritori's Blood Electric is spastic piece of work in a mishmash of violent sexual stylized programing language.

Semiotext(e) SF Collection has a lot of cool odd ball shorts in it you can use to track down authors you like for more of their work.

JG Ballard has a few good novels and short story collections. Crash got made into one of my favourite Cronenberg films.

Check out Kathy Acker and William S. Burroughs too for strong weird shit.

>>6255688
Have you read Siratori/Shipley's collab Necrology?

>>6255524

I guess? The story is about a guy who forces his family to work in a traveling haunted house who has a little son who eats people.

>>6255702
Never mind it's not. The one I'm thinking or is the dad that runs a barbecue restaurant.
>>6255699
I have not.

>>6255699

I didn't even know it was a thing. Cool, thanks.

>>6255702
That was pretty good, just got around to looking it up

>>6255309
>I'm listening to Chet Faker
Why?

>>6255224

Not quite modern, but worth it.

What about stories with ghosts?

Whenever I bring up ghost stories on here and ask for anything that isn't just pulp good fun horror, like King, I only get James' A Turn of the Screw.

>>6255850

Haunting of Hill House is supposedly scary as fuck. I finished Lady in Black recently and i can't say i recommend it - it's not that scary, and actually makes you feel pretty comfy at times.

>>6255845
Already got it on the tablet. That was one of Lovecraft's inspirations.

Damn thread is dying

Abstraction by Shintaro Kago

http://imgur.com/a/y0Npy

>>6255978
are you actually paying for this or torrenting it all?

>>6256065
Why do you ask?

>>6256065
And does it make a difference?

>>6255850
Have you read "The Lady's Maid's Bell" by Edith Wharton?

>>6256063
I have no idea what to make of this.

>>6256206
It gets hard to read when it starts turning eh?

How good is Mieville's Kraken?
I saw it in a bookstore here but it was kinda expensive. Is it worth it?

>>6256260
Thanks for being so condescending.

I really liked the idea of taking the two dimensional image you get on a manga page and twisting it to show a sort of recycled 3d image that gets recycled on multiple pages. I guess I'm just unfamiliar with the genre because it was all the erect penises and hemorrhoids that I didn't quite "get."

>>6256314
I wasn't trying to be condescending at all, my apologies that it felt that way. I was being sincere. When the image started rotating I got confused and irritated so I quit reading it.

>>6256314
I went back to try to read that again and all I can say is,"What the fuck?". Seriously.

>>6255286

Mon negre, I've been looking for that exact collection since somebody recommended Michel Bernanos' The Other Side of the Mountain in that obscure books thread all those days ago. All of my danke.

Bump so I can read thread after finishing hw

>>6256727
Bump for anon

>>6256573

Oh, and from the aforementioned thread, somebody turned me onto The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, which I'm in the middle of but can say is kind of like de Sade inside a virtual reality--which technically isn't a virtual reality, because the setting is a replacement by a supercomputer of the entire physical universe as we know it.

>>6256834
Sounds interesting.

>>6255264
>>6255255
It feels as if it borrowed a lot from Evangelion and the sequel is pretty halfhearted but thankfully more direct, but never ends up resolving the first books end. Still, it's quite entertaining though it's quite guilty of jargon vomit.

>>6256886
I hate when authors do that sometimes. Seems really prevalent in military fiction.

>>6255224
I also enjoyed Shades of Grey by Fforde. It's got nice worldbuilding and fantasy elements, some horror elements though the prose is quite simple in comparison to something, say, like Blindsight.

>>6256903
Yeah, though in this case it's pretty much biology vomit. (The author ends up quoting quite a few research articles in the endnotes/appendix, basically). I suppose the readability depends on your background.

>>6256262
Anyone?

>>6256935
I think it's on Bookz.

>>6256939
She's books have many .mobi files on it?

>>6257071
Not she's, I'm on my kindle and it auto corrects words ask the time.

>>6256939
Looks like bookz is down

>>6256156
>>6256166
just curious. if you were, I'd be curious where from.

>>6255318
I was going to recommend Shipley as well. He's going to be one of the greats.

Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer. It's a really good trilogy.

>>6256262
No. Go read Mieville's Embassytown instead.

>>6255224
Try Lansdale drive in trilogy. Not cyberpunk but b/movie style weird fiction

>>6257339
When I torrent or download books I just Google the name of the book, .mobi, and/or download

Also shocked this thread is still up.

>>6255224
That picture startled me. I had no idea Bane had a little sister.

>>6258253
ahh, I see. that's what I've been doing.

can't shake the paranoia though

>>6256886

What did it borrow from Eva exactly?

>>6256262
I'm quite fond of Mieville so tend to give him more credit than he's due but Kraken was mediocre.

>>6255224

Have you tried some of Dan Simmons stuff?

Carrion Comfort, The Terror, and Summer of Night are pretty decent. Not much cyperpunk but good horror.

>>6256380

This genre is not for you. Delete your thread stupid nigger.

>>6259830
fuck off

>>6257420
>>6259827
Ok, thanks.

>>6255688
I second the Semiotext(e) Sci-Fi Collection

I thought maybe this was the best place to ask.
I'm searching for a book, or rather multiple books (like 4-5?) for kids/teens. They take place in kind of a small world that exists on a big floating rock. These floating rocks also power Ships and in the capital there is a city above the city, also floating on these rocks.
All the books have realy cool illustrations of all the monsters and creatures.
I think the Illustrator also illustrated a book about a boy who finds some kind of graffiti and calls them scribbles or something like that. Maybe someone remembers them

>>6256380
No worries. This website has trained me to assume sarcasm rather than sincerity.

I'm still at a loss as to all the dicks though.

>>6255688
>>6260115
I bought it yesterday on a whim after it was reccd. Can't wait to read it.

>>6255224
Peter F Hamilton - Night's Dawn Trilogy, it's space opera meets the undead.
Neal Asher - Owner trilogy - dystopian sci fi with a fairly high body count.

>>6256063
Someone should recreate this as a 3D model