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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

anarcho-syndicalism theory and practice by rudolf rocker, it was let's say enligthening, I was already an anarchist before reading it, but now I'm an anarcho-syndicalist

currently reading networking in the rust programming language btw

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Dhalgren by Samuel Delany

(Close race with House of Leaves, but ultimately House of Leaves was telling a specific story, whereas Dhalgren is a semi-incoherent drug trip. Loved both books, though.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Probably some short story I read in high school but from what I can remember the first one that came to mind is Blood Meridian

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In elementary school I read this book called "Flawed Dogs" and it was unforgettably wild. It's about a dog who escapes some kinda confinement by jumping over a barbed wire fence and loses his back legs in the process, and then joins a dog gang and does dog gang activities. Also one of the dog gang members was a cat in disguise.
Honestly I should see if I can find a copy of it and reread it. It was pretty wild.

edit: I looked it up and maybe I have a lot of the details wrong but it's still pretty wild

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Diaspora by Greg Egan, it's one of the best thought out take on what a post human society could look like. Lots of amazing ideas in the book.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know about wild, but UNSONG has been a very weird trip. It's like science fiction, except instead of science its Jewish kabbalah. There's angels, demons, alt history American politics, religious references that are truly esoteric, and puns... lots and lots of puns.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Kafkas famous book, I think the title is the transformation.

Also Orson Wells about the civil war in Spain. This was not fiction, but it points out so much real life non sense and lies that had my head spinning for most of the book.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

Both are a naked lunch level mindfuck. Don't treat it as a book, but rather as a stream of consciousness on the acid trip. Don't try to make any sense, just ride the wave.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

"The teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda. Read it in highschool and it put me off psychedelics for more than two decades.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Clockwork Orange

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Der Prozess (1915) by Franz Kafka, it still is relevant today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami just a magnificent read, you probably couldnโ€™t go wrong with any of his works.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

A long way gone by Ishmael Beah was pretty dark. Story of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone explaining how you get forced into it and the terrible things they did.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Sadly, Porn

I don't know how to describe it, expect to be confused and offended and gaslit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The Fan Man

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Kitchen Confidential.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Depends in what way you mean 'wild.' Crazy even psychedelic, but nonetheless benign? Or are we including disturbing?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Hogg by Samuel Delany

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

The multiorgasmic man.

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