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AberrantBassist
Aug 16, 2003

by Fistgrrl
I'm looking for really unique books that are borderline experimental. I love John Zorn when it comes to music and that atonal stuff that no one really listens to, and I'd love to find a John Zorn of fiction. I've read 'House of Leaves' and 'Only Revolutions' and I thought they were amazing. I've gone to http://www.bookarmy.com and I've searched Amazon and while they can recommend me 'similar' authors they're not similar in the a prose/experimental sense.

Does anyone know of any experimental authors?

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AberrantBassist
Aug 16, 2003

by Fistgrrl
I know this might seem vague, and it's really meant to be. I'm really looking for any book that deals with this subject matter for research for a book that I'm writing just so I can get a solid idea.

I'm looking for a book where the main character does something destructive to his/her body to forget a painful even in his/her own life.

For example, I'm not sure what the title of the Stephen King story is, but he has a story where a girl loses a child so she runs. At first she runs so much that she damages her body. She bleeds, vomits, gets sore, etc...

I'm sure there's a plethora of stories like this out there, though I can find the Stephen King one with Google. Any quality stories would help. :)

AberrantBassist
Aug 16, 2003

by Fistgrrl

reflir posted:

You need to watch Pi by Darren Aronofsky.

I've read Invisible Monsters, and I have seen Pi. Invisible Monsters is a good example, but Pi is not. I'm looking for a story more along the lines that a good chunk of the story is the character torturing themselves. Not like in Pi where the character ends it all in a 3 second time span.

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