I'm looking for books that have the sort of super surreal existential feeling like ghost in the shell, akira, or the brief bits I've seen of paprika.
Just watch more Satoshi Kon, especially Perfect Blue
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How do you see brief bits of a movie? Is it that hard to marathon the whole thing?
As for books, if you like Mamoru Oshii read Phillip K. Dick (Ubik, The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch) and Robert Anton Wilson (Prometheus Rising).
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100 Years of Solitude.
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I just tried reading the first couple pages of this book and it was just a bunch of boring stuff about discovering magnets and magnifying glasses in ancient times.
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My favorite novel.
House of Leaves OP?
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight
You should read 'Ficciones' or 'El Aleph', of Jorge Luis Borges.
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William Gibson - Neuromancer
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
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Kafka on the shore
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You mean Magnetic Rose? That's a fine piece and all but I don't know why you'd start with it. It's not particularly indicative of his style.
his best work is undoubtedly millennium actress.