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Looking for more surreal/weird/quirky recommendations (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by the_radness@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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I have a decent library filled with authors like Palahniuk, Ryu and Haruki Murakami, Vonnegut, P. K. Dick, and Thompson.

I'm looking for more modern/contemporary authors who share that absurdism, surrealism, and just plain weirdness.

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[โ€“] iagomago@feddit.it 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pynchon. Surreal, paranoid, extremely zany and hazy. Start with Inherent Vice or Lot 49.

[โ€“] the_radness@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You're the second person to suggest Pynchon. Sounds like I really need to check them out.