Hi! This was removed by mods elsewhere, but I guess this is the better place to ask:
Let’s identify some titles of books you truly enjoyed, but cannot recommend to the lay readers in your life.
Possible reasons:
-Disturbing Content (American Psycho)
-Length (Grossman’s Stalingrad)
-Experiments with Structure (Ducks Newburyport)
-Just Bananas (House of Leaves)
-Otherwise Impenetrable (Ulysses, etc.)
-Other?
Remember: you need to have read it and genuinely enjoyed the experience!
by FrankAndApril
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Anne Rice’s historical fiction “Feast of All Saints” and “Cry to Heaven”.
“Feast of All Saints” is about free people of color and is HORRIBLY considered. Just benign racism and WTF literary choices all around. I want someone else to read it because there was a miniseries of it, and they got a ton of big names, presumably because they wanted to do a costume drama where they weren’t slaves.
“Cry to Heaven” is CAMP, it’s about Venice, opera, and castration. Someone works out his feelings by crying through a volcanic eruption. Secret fathers are revealed. Crossdressing rooftop chases! And no one will read it because, well, castration does not sell well.
The Kingkiller Chronicles. Series not finished, 12 years, no eta.
Child of God
Lolita
Bastard Out of Carolina
The Collector
The Sluts – Dennis Cooper (Experiment with structure + Disturbing Content: The story is told through posts on an Escort Rating website).
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy. One of my favorite series of all times, but I fully acknowledge that in a well-distributed sample of 100 people, probably only 5 would finish it.