Ligotti recommendations

droid

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Start with 'The Noctuary' I guess, probably the easiest of his short story collections to get your hands on.

Though as I was saying in the Lovecraft thread, you should check out Laird Barron - 'The occultation' or the 'Imago sequence'.
 

nomos

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Thanks, Droid. Yeah curious about Barron as well.

Conspiracy is what caught my eye but I think an intro via some earlier short stories would be a good idea.

So much to read, right now. So much cosmic pessimism.
 

you

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I got loads of it as mobi file.

Teatro Grotesco is a good place to start IMO. Conspiracy is good but I think probably best to start with the stories and get a feel for the icy bleakness of things.
 

droid

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Hilarious lampooning of one 'Tom L' in the last story of Laird Barron's 'The beautiful thing that awaits us all'.

Reread 'conspiracy'. Possibly the single most important work of philosophy I've ever encountered. Devastatingly convincing.
 

you

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Droid. If you dig CotHR you may enjoy Horror of Philosophy by Eugene Thacker and Slime Dynamics by Ben Woodard. Def worth a look, easy reads.
 

droid

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Thanks for that. Ive come across Thacker before. Dabbling in Cioran at the moment. Woodard looks great. Think I heard him mentioned in an interview recently, the name's familiar: http://uwo.academia.edu/BenWoodard

Ive found a few rebuttals to TCATHR online. Nothing even remotely convincing. Any ideas there?
 
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you

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Hi Droid.

Nothing springs to mind, other than faith - in quaint little things like life. Brassier's work on naming and picturing (via Sellars) is, to me, a very slightly different more complex and nuanced angle, not in any way a rebuttal though.

There are loads of people exploring these themes. Have you read Bakker's Neuropath? Fun read. Few comments by pete here -
https://deontologistics.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/freedom-renewed/
and some scattered rambles by me here -
http://notesfromthevomitorium.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/speculative-aesthetics.html
 

you

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I'd strongly recommend looking at Thacker's work - every time I read about the "icy bleakness of things" I think of Thacker's work on Horror.
 

nomos

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I can second the Thacker recommendation. I like Dust... quite a bit.

BONUS: Wear your cosmic pessimism...

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http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/blk-dnm-in-the-dust-of-this-planet-sweatshirt/3687639
 

nomos

Administrator
Unfortunately, not yet, but not because I'm not eager (I did buy a nice desktop e-reader for them though). Just hectic days already involving a lot of other reading. But I'm hoping by the weekend I can get into a short story or maybe start Conspiracy. I'll let you know. Curious too to see how he lines up, or doesn't, with the SR/OOO people who've made so much of HPL.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Thomas Ligotti said:
“Why,” Zapffe asked, “has mankind not long ago gone extinct during great epidemics of madness? Why do only a fairly minor number of individuals perish because they fail to endure the strain of living—because cognition gives them more than they can carry?” Zapffe’s answer: “Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Knurd
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
superb response about Ligotti from 4chan. It wasn't me. I'm too old to be on $ch4n.


"just got an interest in him after rediscovering the Current 93 album. How come everything this guy touches is expensive as hell, i can't find a copy of songs of a dead dreamer for less than 200 bones anywhere. Also is that where I should start? and if not what's a cheaper alternative?


>> Anonymous 2013-02-05 23:51:40 No.3438888
because he's a fat nigger who looks like a lesbian and homos want to jack off on his face"
 
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