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u/vikingsquad · 1 pointr/bookscirclejerk

I haven't read it (but a folklorist-classmate of mine did and highly recommended it), but this book might interest you.

u/SweetLenore · 3 pointsr/bookscirclejerk

>Kiernan is pretty great, her The Red Tree is good literary horror. Psychologically dense, intricate, ambiguous.

Wow, I would not have guessed that. This literally looks like a crappy CW show in book form going by the terrible cover:

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Tree-Caitlin-R-Kiernan-ebook/dp/B002H0U1PA/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=the+red+tree&qid=1554303621&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Just glancing at the sample, it reminds me a little of a Edith Wharton or Henry James horror. I might check it out.

u/HeadfulOfHollow · 48 pointsr/bookscirclejerk

I desperately want to read this man's dreadful-sounding novels. The one he mentioned, the idea of small lives explored over the course of a novel, could be interesting. Hemingway did it, Malcolm Lowry did it, Denis Johnson and Carson McCullers did it, Falkner, et cetera...except these people put meaning and thought in to the concepts; it portrayed a point larger than "this is what a person did over the course of a story", you can analyse method and subtext, psychology to their actions. So, a person writing, to just "write a story" with nothing deeper to it, sounds absolutely shite and I really want to read it. Although I don't want to pay for the "privilege".

 

Edit: This is pretty dire.


The scars I bore were invisible, but they were present nevertheless. I wondered if they would ever really heal.


Step aside Herman Melville, you fucking brainlet, there's a new Master in town.

u/melanchtonisbomb · 14 pointsr/bookscirclejerk

I recommend every one who is interested in writing Star Wars fanfic to read Orson Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Science-Fiction-Fantasy/dp/158297103X

u/GhostInTheJelly · 7 pointsr/bookscirclejerk

This book is all about using the hard magic STEM system of sand for nefarious needs

Operation Pipeworks: Inside the Counterculture Glass World https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MD1JAA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_nOWEDb3VYPE39

u/whiteasch · 5 pointsr/bookscirclejerk

This is probably the hardest survival sand system there is. There are no audiobooks so you can only consume it on nightmare.