I've made a post like this in another book recommendation not a lot of suggestions so now I'm hopping here. :-))))))
So basically I like to listen to elevator music, liminal space music, vaporwave, Mallsoft, 2000s aero frutiger barber beats ETC… I really love the vibe of this type of music AND IT RELATES because I like books that I read to mimic or somewhat copy that vibe. For example: I loved My Year of Rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, in fact I love all her books, her short stories SLAP. My Year of Rest and relaxation really vibed with me as much as the music I like.
Another example, "You too can have a body like mine" by Alexandra Kleeman. another fire book imo. Alice in Wonder Lewis Carroll. I love the complex and sumblinal and liminal mental space, I like the blur of real and not real, dream and reality, but it's not super fuvking deep, you know? It's still tangible and you can get what's going on. It's not pedant material or some lame depression writing, it's not instabook. I want something that's really good and matches my vibes that I'm talking about without trying too hard. I don't want to get too emotionally invested but I also don't want to feel like I'm reading a fcking history book or philosophy book. I want to be engaged. I sort of want to feel like I'm on a trip SORT OF. I DIGRESS.
So I'm asking those who get me and what I'm talking about- WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?????
I'm REALLY struggling to find something that fits what I like. It don't gotta be a specific genre, it could be fantasy or sci-fi- BUT I do like realistic fiction more.
I get its very weird and specific, it doesn't have to match EXACTLY perse, but I am looking for something similar to what I mentioned.
So with what I said in mind, do you have any decent recommendations??? Thanks.
by tellcall081
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okay okay, hear me out. i just read a book that matches your vibe but it isn’t out yet (i got an arc from netgalley). it releases in july i think, so worth keeping an eye out
“pan” by michael clune is about this guy slightly losing the grip on reality. the atmosphere in those moments is a mix of trippy and magical. idk i just loved it
sorry i don’t have any suggestions that are already out but better than nothing i guess lmao
*Piranesi* by Susanna Clarke, maybe?
The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Sounds like you would like a lot of Haruki Murakami, *Wind Up Bird Chronicle* in particular is very liminal spacey. 1Q84 is, as well.
Maybe *Cloud Atlas* by David Mitchell, *Sourdough* or *Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore*, by Robin Sloan, or *Winter’s Tale* or *A Soldier of the Great War*, by Mark Helprin (but I don’t know if too much actually happens in all of these books for your taste) or *The Starless Sea* by Erin Morgenstern?