Probably *Catch-22*. The story begins. There’s a flashback. And flash forward, another flashback, and so on and so forth until the reader is thoroughly lost. But it doesn’t matter because the story is moving forward even though time is going around and around in loops.
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The prose was weird but I honestly loved the concept and worldbuilding (it’s a polarizing book for folks)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohammed
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*Invisible Cities* by Italo Calvino. It’s so dream-like*.*
*The Shambling Guide to New York City* by Mur Tafferty*.* The plot centers on supernatural creatures writing a travel guide to visiting a human city.
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*Out of the Dark*
That ending 🫤🫤😱😱😱🥴🥴🥴
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*Naked Lunch* by William S Burroughs. It theoretically has a plot, but the author and the main character do so many drugs that nothing makes sense. It has random time skips, there are allegedly themes but it’s so addled that they’re hard to pin down (trust me, I wrote about this book in undergrad English lit and practically had to do drugs to get it so I had a glass of wine instead), and it’s as post-modern as post-modern can get.
I’ve never done heroin, but I’d imagine that this is the closest book that I think comes to describing the heroin experience.
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* **Star Maker** by Olaf Stapledon *(sci-fi; exploration of various non-humanoid alien beings/civilizations)*
* **A Night in the Lonesome October** by Roger Zelazny *(historical fantasy; written from the perspective of a dog familiar, includes various popular fictional characters such as Holmes/Dracula/Frankenstein/etc.)*
* **The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat** by Oliver Sacks *(nonfiction; stories of patients with bizarre neurological disorders)*
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My Sister,The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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this thing between us – gus Moreno
Probably *Catch-22*. The story begins. There’s a flashback. And flash forward, another flashback, and so on and so forth until the reader is thoroughly lost. But it doesn’t matter because the story is moving forward even though time is going around and around in loops.
The prose was weird but I honestly loved the concept and worldbuilding (it’s a polarizing book for folks)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohammed
*Invisible Cities* by Italo Calvino. It’s so dream-like*.*
*The Shambling Guide to New York City* by Mur Tafferty*.* The plot centers on supernatural creatures writing a travel guide to visiting a human city.
*Out of the Dark*
That ending 🫤🫤😱😱😱🥴🥴🥴
*Naked Lunch* by William S Burroughs. It theoretically has a plot, but the author and the main character do so many drugs that nothing makes sense. It has random time skips, there are allegedly themes but it’s so addled that they’re hard to pin down (trust me, I wrote about this book in undergrad English lit and practically had to do drugs to get it so I had a glass of wine instead), and it’s as post-modern as post-modern can get.
I’ve never done heroin, but I’d imagine that this is the closest book that I think comes to describing the heroin experience.
* **Star Maker** by Olaf Stapledon *(sci-fi; exploration of various non-humanoid alien beings/civilizations)*
* **A Night in the Lonesome October** by Roger Zelazny *(historical fantasy; written from the perspective of a dog familiar, includes various popular fictional characters such as Holmes/Dracula/Frankenstein/etc.)*
* **The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat** by Oliver Sacks *(nonfiction; stories of patients with bizarre neurological disorders)*
My Sister,The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Little Faces (science fiction) by Vonda McIntyre
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/little-faces/