Day of the Triffids: Everyone's going blind and killer plants are on the loose.
There are some books with great concepts which can be boiled down to one sentence and drag you in. It doesn't have to be just sci-fi; The Great Gatsby, in my opinion, has a great premise.
The execution may not always be perfect, but they have something unique. I've been reading books with very similar concepts for a while, and I'd like to read other books with more interesting ideas behind the conception. Is there any suggestions?
A dude dies and one of his sons might have killed him
Gravity's rainbow: a man's erections precipitate V2 bombings, also bananas
Infinite Jest: a movie so good you die, also legless quebecanuck assassins, failed tennis prodigies, and square-headed halfway-housers
The Tunnel: a historian frets over being unable to write an introduction and muses about cucking his wife and being a charlatan for 650 pages
Blindness - Everyone's going blind
A guy walks around in a specific place and time, is cheated on, and doesn't gain a young protégé.
>>7480861
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Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann) - a musical genius amplifies his talent a hundredfold by deliberately contracting syphilis to incur madness.
A Frolic of His Own - a man becomes so enwound in the bureaucratic labyrinth of the modern legal system he ends up suing himself
The Waves - six children (and a silent seventh) alternate stream-of-consciousness poetic soliloquies as they pass from childhood to adulthood
Zeno's Conscience - a man records his diary at the insistence of his psychiatrist, lies uncontrollably and won't shut the fuck up about his addiction to smoking
Dust - Insects die out and it throws the entire ecosystem into chaos.
>>7481392
not op, but that sounds a neat enough premise for me to want to read it
>>7480923
Well, you sold me on at least two of those.
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>>7480882
What, no walking killer plants? Garbage.
>>7483878
It is pretty garbage.
