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Which books could you recommend to someone that:
>likes Kafka
>likes Lovecraft
>likes Camus
>hates Dickens

>> No.12652478

>>12652471
what about dickens is overrated.

sound like you might be a doomer.

>> No.12652485

Pretty much anything from the "I'm 18, male, and just started reading literature" pack

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12652496

>>12652471

>> No.12652499

>>12652471
Gogol's short stories

>> No.12652501

>>12652471
literally anything

>> No.12652524

>>12652471
>likes Kafka
>likes Lovecraft
>likes Camus
>hates Dickens
are you Jorge Luis Borges?

>> No.12652553

Borges, Bolaño and Gabriel García Márquez.

>> No.12652584

>>12652478
He is too good for his own damn good. His characters linger on a perfect stage. The pacing is immaculate. The pulpiness is too overwhelming for me when combined with subtle morals and social complexity. It makes me enjoy Doskey more just to think about those meandering passages towards an end your sure is to come for good old Sufferer.

>> No.12652610

what books would you recommend for someone who
>likes pessoa
>likes bernhard
>likes salinger
>hates dostoyevsky

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12652682

>>12652471

>> No.12652690
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>>12652610

>> No.12652704

>>12652690
rude

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12652753

>>12652471
Thomas Ligotti is like Lovecraft and Kafka thrown into a blender. I would recommend starting off with Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe. >>12652496 is good but it's a bit much for someone who's new to Ligotti. Check out a few of his short-story collections before you dive into The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.

>> No.12652827

If you haven't read Dosto yet you're in for a treat, the trial is pretty inspired by one of the books of brothers K.

>> No.12652857

>>12652827
This. You'll probably like Dosto, OP. If you're intimidated by the length of The Brothers Karamazov then start off with Notes from Underground. Notes is nice and short.

>> No.12652895

>>12652857
I've read Crime and Punishment, and I quite liked it, but aside from that, nothing by Dosto.

>> No.12652996

>>12652895
As someone who just read crime and punishment then brothers K, its a fucking tome of a book but completely worth it.