Been really struggling to find my next read, unfortunately I do judge a book by its cover and i canttt stand a booktok or very modern vibe; that feels like all I can find these days.
I feel like my favorites are niche finds from secondhand bookstores that Ive never seen anyone talk about lmao.
I love something that explores the human psyche, particularly its fragility. dark and disturbing is not necessary but I am usually drawn to it.
Some of my recent favs & synopses:
The third eye (a photographer subleases his apartment every summer and secretly stays across the street, studying the tenant and capturing “real/raw” art of them. His new tenant captivates him in a complex way and he enters something close to a psychosis. he contemplates that she may be a supernatural like figure.)
The wasp factory (a young woman lives alone with her father in a small, secluded town. she struggles with identity as she enters puberty and atrocities continue to unfold around her. she is prompted to investigate what her father is hiding.)
Lolita… sue me
fight club, american psycho, etc.
TIA!!!
by mwaxo4
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (and Sanshiro by the same author)
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Have you read Tender is the Flesh?
Also, are you not referring to The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks? It doesn’t look we’ve read the same book lol
A street I drive down is a house that for 2 years has been flying a flag of trump after he was *shot” in the ear. The one with his fist raised and secret service around him. They took it down.
I delude myself into believing they changed their position but it’s more likely that the flag was shotty and tore.
I actually just read beware of pity by Stefan Zweig and I think this fits. The covers are cool too.
I second Dorian Gray.
I’d also like to throw out Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil because it’s excellent and NF but you can’t tell, because it’s written incredibly.
stoner – john williams
I found a book in a laundromat a few years ago, Elio Vittorini’s omnibus published by New Directions, foreward by Hemingway…highly recommend