recommended books

i will warn that despite how good i am at reading you shouldnt consider me The Bookworm because to the average literate viewer perusing the "Books" category, i do not read very much

HOUSE OF LEAVES - Mark Z. Danielewski

no good book listing of mine is complete without house of leaves. its very dense, i will say. but if you find most books "too readable", and want a thorough challenge, this is for you. formatting off the handle, and the book itself is maybe two books, what with all of Navidson's footnotes. a haunted house that haunts with batshit confusing architecture, and haunts the reader with batshit confusing visual pages.

INFINITE JEST - David Foster Wallace

this book covers a lot of topics, including, but not limited to, Tennis, Cinematography, Cocaine, Murder, Terrorism, Classical Film, Adolescence, Friendship, Physical and Mental Disability, Football, Fictional Physical Media, Capitalism, The Future (circa 1995), Entertainment (and how it is basically what the point of life is, now), Depression, Suicide, Lost Media, The Psyche and How One Is Unable To Do Anything in The Case That It Decides To Betray the Body, or Vice Versa, and, lest we forget, how many times 17 can go into 56. to put it bluntly, i think this is one of the only books that makes a very good attempt to capture how chaotic, yet organized, yet complex life is. life has a lot of topics, you know? i will say, though, that some topics, while aren't delegated to just being mentioned once, aren't exactly the focal point of the book. nothing's really its focal point. what could you say is the focal point of life itself? exactly. some find this book dense, but personally i found it a very enjoyable read (at least, compared to House of Leaves or so, it is formatted like a normal book and its density is found in its verbosity, as well as its numerous points-in-time and topics, where it does not follow a linear plot, and really doesn't have one specific plot at all.)

FAHRENHEIT 451 - David Bradbury

a relatively simpler read, and a classic. a commentary on censorship and control of knowledge. a fireman burns books mindlessly, until he realizes how good reading/gaining knowledge is, and then gets hunted down by the government and stuff.

those 3 are all i can really call my favorites, and while this might put me into some little niche of "haw haw, you like reading relatively popular and violently dense books", i dont really care because theyre good books :-)