I’ve been trying to go to the library and read more but I’m out of ideas for what to read next. Help plz.
Hunger by Knut Hamson.
Hamson was a fascist, Nazi sympathizer to be clear but still a great book on poverty and idealistic, self-destructive pride.
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen.
A very interesting proto-existentialist, late-Romantic novel about a disillusioned young man and some of his relationships.
I recently read my way through all Becky Chamber’s works and then The Murderbot Diaries. They were quite enjoyable and I very much recommend them.
Philip K Dick if you are into sci fi
It’s been a long time since I was it, but A Confederacy of Dunces was a fun read
Excellent recommendation. Ignatius is a true poster invented by the author before posting was invented.
Another similar book from 100 years earlier is A Rebours by JK Huysmans. It’s about a fail child aristocratic son who retreats from the real world into the realm of aesthetics. It’s absolutely jammed with esoteric references to the art and artists of the time, but if you can look past the references you won’t get, I guarantee that any hexbear poster will recognize the ancestors of the modern spoiled lib.
The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
I was gonna recommend the Culture!
uhhh, the Expanse series is cool too. not as based commie but it’s fun if kinda depressing scifi
Player of Games is good! I started with Consider Phlebas which I quite enjoyed but Use of Weapons stuck out to me when I was first reading them!
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I may have had to read it twice to keep the intersecting plots straight but that’s my own ADHD more than anything
Excession is my favourite but it’s not a good one to start with in my opinion.
Consider phlebas is a pretty straightforward one. It’s got a normal timeline and does a good job of introducing the culture and their history.
Don’t sleep on his non culture SciFi story the algebraist either, it’s excellent.
