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I've noticed this board tends to only talk about the classics, what was the last more obscure book you really enjoyed and why?

>> No.1269317

I don't have time to read obscure nonsense.

>> No.1269319

i think it's only natural that we mostly discuss the classics. I mean, there are so many books! it's not like movies or music where you could have a pretty good grasp of almost everything there is to know.

But even reading all the classics is almost impossible, or it would at least take several years.

>> No.1269321

>>1269317
good work at not coming off as totally pretentious.

>> No.1269324

The problem with trying to discuss obscure books is that nobody else has read them.

People do post about other books; the posts just die because nobody else has read them.

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1269327

Allright, the point of this thread is now to find an obscure book that two people here have read.

betting no one read this.

>> No.1269328

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4xPnhGDxA

>> No.1269330

OP here, I'm not saying I don't understand why it's so popular to discuss the classics- I've enjoyed quite a few of them myself.
I'm just curious at to what other books /lit/ reads. Don't worry if no one else here has read it, think of it as recommending something that someone else might not of known about otherwise.

>> No.1269333 [DELETED] 

United States Gold Coins: An illustrated history. By Q David Bowen, was the last "Obscure" (though it's a fairly common title for the subject) book I read op. Fascinating stuff.

Up next: Forbidden Diary, A record of wartime internment by Natalie Crowther.

Because eclectic is how I roll.

>> No.1269347

>>1269321
Good work not coming off as totally trolled.

>> No.1269351

Read some Thomas bernhard, it`s not really that obscure, but not many on /lit/ has read any of his works.

>> No.1269366

>>1269327

I read it.

>> No.1269374

HOUSE OF LEAVES

>> No.1269393

>>1269327
>point is to find two readers
>bet nobody read this

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1269398

Just re-read this for the billionth time. I love it.

>> No.1269406

>>1269366
were manly tears shed?

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>>1269330
>I'm just curious at to what other books /lit/ reads.
>/lit/
>read

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1269492

I would say anything by Angela Carter, but I've been pimping her on /lit/ for quite some time now and I've spotted more and more people talking about her books, so it is possible that /lit/ can enjoy good books.

Anyway, my vote goes to Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman". Surreal, super-smart, incredibly referential and dirty as fuck; if this was how all the literary feminists wrote then they wouldn't be nearly half as reviled as they are.

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1269506

<-- Like Being Killed - Ellen Sue Miller
I actually was recommended this by someone on /lit/! So, don't worry guys. All your work is not in vain!

>> No.1269541

The last really obscure book I loved was "Villa des Roses" by Willem Elschott.

But I gather it's not so obscure if you're from the Netherlands (or wherever the author was from).