I do not want books that are based around flaccid “im so smart” philosophy. I have already read all the Ayn Rand or Yukio Mishima I can handle.
I want a book that, like title says, will explode my mind and make me shit on myself.
Preferably it’s something with a real good story, but philosophical as well. Sort of like (for lack of a better comparison) Evangelion. Or like Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon.
Things do not need to make sense either if its a good book.
Thanks
Edit: if anyone has read Legion by William Peter Blatty, you know what I’m talking about
by HarleyVlieg
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Torth Majority.
**House of Leaves** by Mark Danielewski. You’ll need the physical copy (and extra-ply TP)
**Making History** by Stephen Fry, if you want a *Back to the Future* vibe for your mind-blowing shit
**Foucault’s Pendulum** by Umberto Eco if you want to worry whether that giant shit you just took was real or just in your head
**If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler** by Italo Calvino if you want a delayed-reaction shit when you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night realizing you finally understand wtf was going on
**Cain’s Jawbone** by Torquemada if you want to have constipation since almost no one has solved the murders in the book since it was published in 1931. You’ll need the physical copy, and some room to organize.
**The Player of Games** by Isaiah Banks (part of his *Culture* series, all of which I enjoyed). Hunger Games meets Mad World meets Squid Games meets Sartre, so there will be some very diverse chunks in your shit.