Your Favorite Novels Nobody Else Ever Heard Of

[AnOminous]

No H.P. Lovecraft, no Philip K. Dick. Everybody knows those guys.

I'm going to lead off with a novel by a fairly well known writer, actually. Robert Silverberg.

Dying Inside. It's about a telepath who can read people's minds. That's his only ability, and despite having it, he's simply decayed into a state of near nonexistence in his middle age, and does nothing but cheese out a shitty living by writing papers for college students for meager amounts of money.

His ability, rather than helping him, has destroyed him.

Now he's losing even the ability to read minds.

It's as depressing as it sounds.

Despite being issued to nearly universal acclaim, it's been virtually unheard of since.

 

[Broken Pussy]

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

It pretty much defies description, but it’s kind of like a fictional take on mythological origin story. Like The Silmarillion by Tolkien, but way more fucked up.

It, too, received a lot of advance buzz from literary circles, but I don’t know anyone else who has ever read it, and I am friends with a lot of readers, and more than one person with an MFA in creative writing.

 

[Jetstream Sam]

No H.P. Lovecraft, no Philip K. Dick. Everybody knows those guys.

I'm going to lead off with a novel by a fairly well known writer, actually. Robert Silverberg.

Dying Inside. It's about a telepath who can read people's minds. That's his only ability, and despite having it, he's simply decayed into a state of near nonexistence in his middle age, and does nothing but cheese out a shitty living by writing papers for college students for meager amounts of money.

His ability, rather than helping him, has destroyed him.

Now he's losing even the ability to read minds.

It's as depressing as it sounds.

Despite being issued to nearly universal acclaim, it's been virtually unheard of since.

Dude that sounds awesome I'm gonna check that out.

One of mine is called "I Know You Really Love Me". It's a psychiatrist's account of becoming an object of obsession by a stalker with a rare mental condition called erotomania.

 

[TheMaxHeadroomIncident]

The Deathlands series. If you enjoy cheesy-ass, 80s-tastic post-apocalyptic pulp, I highly recommend these books.

 

[AnOminous]

Has anyone read A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay?

I have met one other person who has read this, and that was the person who told me to read this.

Why isn't this considered a classic? Why has nobody even read it? I don't know.

People are dumb and they have bad taste.

 

[Broken Pussy]

Dude that sounds awesome I'm gonna check that out.

One of mine is called "I Know You Really Love Me". It's a psychiatrist's account of becoming an object of obsession by a stalker with a rare mental condition called erotomania.

This reminds me of a book I read last year that was an account of the writer being involved in an incestuous relationship with her dad. It was a really squicky read and when I was done, I felt terrible that I had even read it.

 

[AnOminous]

This reminds me of a book I read last year that was an account of the writer being involved in an incestuous relationship with her dad. It was a really squicky read and when I was done, I felt terrible that I had even read it.

Sounds pretty V.C. Andrews.

 

[Broken Pussy]

Sounds pretty V.C. Andrews.

The whole point of the book was that she started enjoying the abuse and continued to have sex with her dad as an adult and eventually ended up in a sexually and physically abusive relationship that she was still in at the end of the book, and tbat’s how it ended.

So, yeah, totally VC Andrews.

 

[AnOminous]

The whole point of the book was that she started enjoying the abuse and continued to have sex with her dad as an adult and eventually ended up in a sexually and physically abusive relationship that she was still in at the end of the book, and tbat’s how it ended.

So, yeah, totally VC Andrews.

This sounds like a horrible piece of shit nobody should read. I started this thread for favorites!

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Do 40K novels count?

 

[Broken Pussy]

This sounds like a horrible piece of shit nobody should read. I started this thread for favorites!

I’m sorry! I just needed other people to read it and be traumatized!

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I’m sorry! I just needed other people to read it and be traumatized!

>traumatized
>in a post internet world

 

[Broken Pussy]

I thought of another one. Wintering by Kate Moses. It’s a fictionalization of the last days of Sylvia Plath’s life.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Do 40K novels count?

I'm not hearing a 'no', which is an implicit 'yes'.

 

[Jetstream Sam]

This reminds me of a book I read last year that was an account of the writer being involved in an incestuous relationship with her dad. It was a really squicky read and when I was done, I felt terrible that I had even read it.

Fucked as that is, I'd actually read it. Seriously, I enjoy nonfiction no matter how dark it gets because while stories are fun, reality is a lot more insane and gripping.

 

[Broken Pussy]

Fucked as that is, I'd actually read it. Seriously, I enjoy nonfiction no matter how dark it gets because while stories are fun, reality is a lot more insane and gripping.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1UV5YG/

 

[Piss Clam]

Going out on a limb here but:

Sunset Warrior Cycle by Eric Van Lustbader.

He also continued the Bourne Series (Ludlum) with Legacy/Betrayal/Sanction etc.

The Ninja and the releated series is also pretty good.

I would also add:
Merlin a very adult fantasy by robert nyes. It's a real raunchy take on the Merlin tale...really ranchy.

https://www.tor.com/2016/12/28/lifting-up-the-enchanters-robe-robert-nyes-merlin/

 

[DumbDosh]

Replay by Ken Grimwood, it's about a guy who everytime he dies wakes up as himself at eighteen.

Happy Odyssey by Adrian Carton de Wiart about the british soldier who was called the unkillable soldier in WW1.

Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors by Rex Feral.

Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland by David Koenig.

 

[Bob Page]

Starcraft 2: Heaven's Devils by William C. Dietz. I really like how it explored the backstories of Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay and how their friendship began. Before I read the book, I used think that the Confederacy was ran by a bunch of assholes but holy mother of god, they were worse than I thought. Also, I liked the audiobook narrated by Tychus's voice actor Neil Kaplan, who oddly enough made Jim Raynor's father Trace sound a lot like Tychus.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. It is nothing like the academy award winning film based on it and the author HATED the movie. For one, the book is a comedy. It's less about Forrest being an idiot and more about him being a turbo autistic idiot savant who can't tie his shoes but can solve complex math problems like the rainman. Forrest does so much crazy shit in it, like go to outer space, become a pro wrestler, play in a hippie jam band, make friends with an ape, run for congress, become a chess master, and becomes the guest of a cannibalistic tribe.