Thank you! Gonna check it out.

Damn this looks neat. Gonna check it out! Thank you.

Thank you!

Sounds cool. Thank you.

Seems a deep book. Thank you for the reccomendation.

Thanks!

Which writer?

Iain M. Banks Feersum Endjin one of the characters narrates the story phonetically.

Alan Duff Once Were Warriors and sequels. Entirely written as interior monologues.

Marc, la sucia rata.

My absolute favorite that shes made is Atmosphere but its not that "unique". Its a love story to 1980s space exploration first then second to another love story.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is more unique in story telling and its based on the 1920s Golden Age of Hollywood. I'm quite a nerd so after listening to the book (people enjoyed the written book too) I got lost in learning more about Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, etc. I didn't think off title alone it would be my type of book but I've fallen in love with everything TJR has written about so far lol.

Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs

Hey, I read that relatively recently! It was last year, maybe 2 years ago? Oddly, it doesn't show up in my library history.

Different vibe though. Grittier maybe? The Connolly book has a somewhat more lighthearted feel to it.

The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer. Its about a man who quits his job and takes up robbing banks using only philosophy.

Ram Dass, I would assume

I think that would probably be Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, although I haven't finished it.

I've never read anything quite as horrible or with a unreliable narrator that justifies his behaviour this hard. The story keeps getting worse too. There's no clear hope for a long stretch.

If you don't know the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is the pedophile who goes after the twelve year old Dolores Haze, whom he calls Lolita.

Can be read here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/unwsfj/Lolita---Vladimir-Nabokov/

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Old and probably hard to find, but they did make a good movie out of it.

"Report To The Commissioner." By James Mills.

In the Preface we learn that there's been a major scandal in the NYPD and two cops are dead. The writer is a local newspaper reporter who has heard bits and pieces of the story, mostly conflicting. One night he's at the bar and someone hands him a thick envelope. Inside is the internal investigation conducted at the behest of the Police Commissioner.

The novel is in the form of taped interviews, internal memoranda, a magazine profile of one of the cops, medical reports, etc.

Thanks! Gonna check it out.

Is there a english version of it.

Thank you! Gonna check it out.

That one is wild! Thanks.

Thank you! Gonna check it out.

Omg that sounds crazy! Thanks.

Thanks!

Its a pretty dark book. Added to my tbr.

Thank you!

It has some noir vibea to it.

It's been on my bookshelf forever.

A few I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet:

• Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman. It's one sentence long, although it occupies 1,000 pages. It's well though done that it doesn't just feel like a creative writing exercise. It's not necessarily something I'd recommend, but it's surprisingly ok.
• If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino. It's about the reader (you) trying to read a book called "If on a winter's night a traveler" It's funny, and short enough to not push the bit too far. Every time you think you're onto its trick, it finds a new one.
• Ulysses - James Joyce. A loose reframing of the Odyssey with the stakes massively lowered. Different chapters have different writing styles. Other works borrow ideas from this, so any individual attempt at innovation may be something you've seen elsewhere. For example, the single sentence stream of consciousness of Ducks, Newburyport was likely inspired by the 3 sentence closing chapter here. The book is kind of a lot. If you were to read it, it's worth at least considering if you want to use a guide. The Joyce Project has a good wiki-style guide embedded in the text.

I've found "children's" books are frequently very unique whilst still being good. A Series of Unfortunate Events, is a great example of this. Here are two to check out.

The Stars Beneath Our Feet, by David Barclay Moore

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Man love the concepts behind those books. Thanks!

Thank you!

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig is one of my most memorable reads. A cross between philosophy and mystery told from a first-person narrative in a somewhat autobiographical/travelogue manner.

Thank you so much!

Angel Down (which won this year's Pulitzer) also does the single-sentence thing.

Though his sister released a soundtrack album.

And readers should ensure they get the full colour edition.

I read Station Eleven as a blind date book from the library. I really liked it a lot more than I expected to.

Edit: literally just found the book date description 30 minutes later. This is all I knew going into the book:

Genre: Post apocalyptic sci-fi

Description: A Hollywood Star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors

The Last Wolf and Herman: the Game Warden & the Death of a Craft by László Krasznahorkai

I genuinely don't know. The author is José Sbarra, from Argentina, in case you wanna look it up.
Sorry.

Okay but thats pretty spot on. Wouldn't exactly call it sci-fi though

Yeah, I agree it’s not really scifi, that was just the libraries description.

But it was a really good book

For those who can read german:
"Henry Frottey, sein erster Fall, Teil 2, das Ende der Trilogie" by Jan Philipp Zymny, who is a german absurdist comedian. Its a bit like the Dirk Gently Books by Dougkas Adams, though even more absurdist and less structured. A funny, but also exhausting read.

I don't know, if there is an english translation.