Better Than Food

The Turn of the Screw is also a ghost story examining the dubious sanity of a female protagonist. However, The Haunting of Hill House is far more readable than The Turn of the Screw, which is famously impenetrable.

The beginning of House of Leaves is pretty damn good.

The whole thing starts to kind of feel like Ombberto echoes the name of the rose with like the concentric circles of rooms, right, which are just like excessive and bizarre.

The Haunting of Hill House is arguably the classic American haunted house novel, but on the other hand, it's not your average haunted house story. Instead, it's a deeply ambiguous portrayal of a woman's descent into either madness or possession.

the apocalyptic symbolism of Jorge Bataille mixed with a merciless landscape of war and destruction like Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Reminds me of symbolism a little bit, you know, like Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte, you know? It's kind of got that heightened emotion sort of thing going on.

And there's this heavy sense of dread in The Red Laugh that is very similar in tone and style to The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, which is a book about a book that drives one insane.

If you haven't read Black Sun by Jeffrey Wolf, do it. It's the greatest biography I've ever read in my life.

There's also a great book I read way back called Bataille's Peak by an author named Allan Stoekl. I remember being enthralled with that one.

This is one of the scariest things I have read in years. It explicitly asks the question, "What is this grand self-destructive drive within mankind, right?"

it's better than Child of God, better than The Road, The Passenger, and Stellais.

it's better than Child of God, better than The Road, The Passenger, and Stellais.

I think this was an element in The Passenger as well, wherein the protagonist, Bobby's father, helped create the atom bomb. it's better than Child of God, better than The Road, The Passenger, and Stellais.

it's better than Child of God, better than The Road, The Passenger, and Stellais.

The genius dry southern humor that can be found in his book Sutri... Not as good as Sutri or Blood Meridian, but honestly, what is.

Solid four out of five coffees leaning towards a five. I highly recommend it. Not as good as Sutri or Blood Meridian, but honestly, what is.

It's more of a poetic suggestion with a lot of flair than it is a moving portrait. I never really cared emotionally about any of the characters. This is because of the brevity and the fragmentary perspective shifting nature of the book, which, don't get me wrong, is very cool, and I feel a totally interesting and viable manner in which to write a novel, but I think it's a double-edged sword, right?

It is a very Eastern European gothic horror quality. Reminds me of The Trial by Kafka with the tone and aesthetic of the films of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay.

It's one of the strangest novels I've read. A dream within a dream, literally. Incredibly original. Better than food. Solid four out of five coffees. I recommend it.

There are similarities in the thoughts and writings of Jack Parsons and Camille Paglia in her book Sexual Personae, most notably the reverence of nature and the feminine. Jack goes a bit far, though, and doesn't take into account the darker nature of the feminine like Paglia, whose system is more sophisticated and developed.

Better than foodish. 3.5 out of five coffees. Amazing author biography, like one of the best of all time. But the writing could have been stronger.

In his book Civilization and Its Discontents, I know I'm always talk about it, but it's a good one. Freud explains that we're unhappy in civilization because it requires the repression of our violent and sexual impulses to function.

I think Bataille thought of war in a similar way in his book The Accursed Share, which I haven't read in forever, but I remember really enjoying it.

I absolutely loved it. I highly recommend it. It is one of the best books I've ever read.