HUGE Book Haul

[@sonnycorleone9557]

Another really great video Daniel! Always look forward to hearing what you’re into, your Instagram is one of my favorite pages. Still though, I yearn for the day where you’ll talk about William Gaddis. I’m reading his 700 page marathon book “J R.” It’s really great! His first novel, “The Recognitions,” is near a thousand pages, but it is heavily inspired by Faust and started as a retelling of it. Hopefully that entices you some more!

[@BobCanRead]

Lem wrote "Solaris". "Roadside Picnic", the book that inspired "Stalker", was written by the Strugatsky Brothers.

[@offthewallnovels1292]

Woops. Thank you for the correction!

[@BobCanRead]

@@offthewallnovels1292 👍Absolutely. You should definitely give "Roadside Picnic" a read. It has one of the best endings of any book I've ever read. And it's wildly different from "Stalker", though they are both masterpieces in their own right.

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

I've been on a German ride too for the last two years. Would love to talk about it with you sometime.

[@offthewallnovels1292]

That rules! What highlights have stood out to you in that camp? We could connect on insta for this kind of convo (at) danielbackerauthor

[@PeteS151]

Where do you start with the occult? What books are good for a relative beginner

[@offthewallnovels1292]

There are two angles, and I took both simultaneously: a readable history book like Mitch Horowitz’s Modern Occultism that basically goes through most eras in history and gives you a few pages on each major thinker. And two, reading a book laden with occult imagery and symbolism so that you can see the more artistic applications. I recommend Goethe’s Faust or Crowley’s Moonchild.

[@flamephlegm]

Is LLatRV on kindle?

[@offthewallnovels1292]

Not yet! But I’ll do a e-book release this summer.