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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Books On Deck / Up Next (Pt. IV)
Shifting gears a bit. Gotta get into a little terror and suspense, a little horror and a little psychological breakage. If anyone has some recommendations, I'd love to hear them. I'm in the mood for less gore and violence and more "House of Leaves" type horror. More cerebral than blood and guts or vampires and ghosts.
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literature:
ReplyDeletethe orange eats creeps
lovecraft (mountains of madness is a good start)
the raw shark texts
the way through doors
film:
suspiria
the cabinet of dr. caligari
nosferatu
the mirror
valhalla rising
eraserhead
begotten
the holy mountain
antichrist
tscherkassky's outer space (which you should be able to find on youtube - try to watch with headphones and in a relatively darkened room)
to be honest, though, i've found little that matches HOL in just about any sense: structure, style, tone, or altogether uncanniness. goddamn, that book is magical in the truest sense.
man, i HATED "the orange eats creeps." it was just too unstructured for me. which is funny considering i loved HOL (though i found that to be decidedly ultra-structured despite it's multitude of formatting).
ReplyDeletei'll give the others a look. thanks for the list!
for me, OEC wasn't that brilliant in execution (though i did find it more cohesive than the stories in "scorch atlas"). OEC evoked in me that sense of uncanny by capturing well the self-medicated, dream-like lives of those junkie, homeless (vampiric?) kids roaming around the Pac NW, squatting in grocery store stock rooms, trying for enlightenment at hardcore shows...had me considering the 90s and how my own tribe of late teens and early 20s wandering and surviving in such a manner - and projecting forward to my own kids' adolescences and what may be in store for them then.
ReplyDeletedefinitely keep us updated on other works you find that fit this bill.
see, i didn't expect any kind of cohesion with "Scorch Atlas" other than the world had moved on into something completely different than we know it now setting-wise. the prose of "SA" kept me more engaged than that of "OEC" purely on a poetic level. I just kept having to put "OEC" down because of its meandering nature. it wasn't bad writing, i just wasn't nearly as interested in the story after more than half-way through it.
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