Books for Dustin

adaorhell: BRO. What the actual fuck. Top ten book of my life. Horror? Horror of what? Is it the horror of Fatherhood? The horror of dictatorship? The horror in the actual magic? Incredible writing. So crazy jealous of people who get to read it in the original Spanish. this is 'The Book' of the NTS discord channel, the common denominator between all of us, and the book we use as a sort of guiding force. this is the book a user donated copies to to a prison book group. this should be your next read once you are ready for something intense after you get through a little life.

adaorhell: Tanner loves this psycho and so do I and so does David Bowie

adaorhell: A museum of America. A story about friendship, unity, the power of belief, that uses horror as the mechanism to test those things. Pennywise is the villain of our time for sure. I plan on re-reading this when I turn 38, which is how old they are when this book. So Halloween 2027, lol.

adaorhell: Still haven't seen this fucking movie but the book is incredible. So incredible. The details are excruciating. I know that Bruce is a smart, creative man, but to see it at work, especially when he's depressed and kind of losing his mind, was so intense. The way he talks about music is intense.

adaorhell: truly wild essays about living as a sex worker and artist and gay person through the Chilean dictatorship and the earliest days of AIDS in South America. funny, gorgeous, achingly human. also the shit talk about white American gays is sooo hilarious omfg

adaorhell: lets go crazy

adaorhell: a weird little thing. kind of non fiction, kind of not, some other third thing. the scientists and science and madness are real. but some other things are not. a really strange unique book. crazy weird Mishima moment in it to with the Japanese scientist that won't make sense until after you've read Temple of Golden Pavilion.

adaorhell: another writer's writer like Raymond Carver, but where Carver has a working class overlay, Salter is from a cultured scene. Writers, publishers, academics, that kind of thing. Extremely rhythmic and soothing, with sentences that just...sort of quietly gorgeous, like when the light hits someone's face, or a particularly delicious looking flower that you pass walking. He's also famous for the best sex writing -- literally ever. As you can imagine, writing sex is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. Salter is the master.

adaorhell: Light Years is about marriage, and Sport is about a young man's life, a young man's post war life. Has one of my favorite sentences ever in it -- when a man is walking down the stairs, away from his lover, Salter says "And like Lucifer, he creates darkness, and descends." Like, fuck me, right? Crazy sex writing in this too -- again, young man, and the feelings around that.

adaorhell: probably the most perfect novel ever written. every sentence is a marvel. so perfect. incredible. just an amazing accomplishment.

adaorhell: crazy sentences. like actually the most insane shit. sentences that seem to be stripped from the fabric of the unseen forces that control the universe. energy, light, gravity. blinding. its also where the title of aberration in the heartland of the real comes from.

adaorhell: I love animals that murder bad people

adaorhell: to get into classical music

adaorhell: when you are ready to go apeshit about the guy who Yukio Mishima committed seppuku to

adaorhell: Abridged from the original SEVEN VOLUME set. And still like 900 pages. insane. he rescues a child prostitute in Asia, he hangs out with the mujhadeen, he meets warlords, he does all this insane shit, but its also a...theory of violence in its revolutionary position. it's a matrix of options to understand violence, and it's moral or lack of moral relevance. a very useful way to organize thinking about violence when we are surrounded by so many different kinds all the time. was vital for my terrorism studies last year.

adaorhell: lets get freaky about cinema baby

adaorhell: a good story. nice and easy, palate cleanser after you do something intense. IT has a librarian and writer who save the world and 'Salem's Lot has a writer and an English teacher and a kid who likes comic books who saves the world.

adaorhell: Emily Wilson translation.

adaorhell: SINNERS adjacent. Three black women in Macon, Georgia 1924 fight the Klan, who are actually pointy headed demons who eat people. there was a black lady on the MARTA platform reading it and I went up to her and was like a love that book and she's like I love this book so hard right now lmao