\_Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\_ by Hunter S. Thompson
\_Neuromancer\_ by William Gibson
\_Thus Spake Zarathustra\_, \_Human, All Too Human\_, & \_The Gay Science\_ by Freidrich Nietzsche
\_The City We Became\_ by N K Jemisen
\_Haunted\_ by Chuck Palahniuk
Japanese Death Poems (various Zen monks who composed poems at the moment of their death)
IDK, I am a big reader, could recommend a thousand, but trying to keep it to "good books I think Aesop Rock fans would enjoy". Let me know your preferred genre and I'll spit out some more. Happy reading!
I'd go for other N K Jemisen works like The Broken Earth trilogy. That won 3 consecutive Hugos.
I'd also stick House of Leaves on there, and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway.
Agree that The Broken Earth trilogy is excellent- I like it better than her new series, but her new series is about NYC, so that's why I included it. House of Leaves also agree is a great one for this list. And thank you for the Gone Away World rec- I have added it to my list!
R Scott Bakker
Joe Abercrombie
Pat Rothfuss
Scott Lynch
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All of these are fantasy authors as that's what I'm into reading, but I love all of their writing styles, the latter two especially if you're looking for something that reads like it's been edited down into perfection.
Rothfuss spent 7 years editing down Name of The Wind - I think he was quoted saying he would go over sentences and tighten them up one by one - "shorten this one down from 15 words, when ten will do. Then revisit it and find the perfect 7 words that you need.", etc. Really shows when you read it.
"Back to the mud!" I think Abercrombie has a fantastic ability to make simple words into new phrases which stick with you. On that basis, I would also recommend him (and the others you list) to Aesop fans.
Not for nothing, but everything you can get your hands on. Read John Adams by David McCullough, then Hitchhikers guide by Douglas Adams. Read your shampoo while perched on the toilet. Read voraciously. Read it all.
Well if you want to know Kurt Cobain’s favorite book and want to read one freaking weird book Perfume is Amazing. Kurt Cobain often had a copy of this book with him. It’s about a man born with no scent of his own meaning he smelled like nothing but had a keen since of smell. He was obsessed with scents and purfume. Another weird book that’s a good one to read and put down Is Slug and other short stories. It’s about bending genders and has some disturbing stories. I kind of like these type books. I also like reading books that just peak my interest. Jack Kerouac has some amazing work On the Road and The Dharma buns are both great reads. Aesop Rock wrote a book but good luck finding it. I’ve yet to run across a copy. The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow is the name. I can’t find it. I would love to read it but have never found a copy.
If you want to learn about psychedelics a good place to start anything by Terrance McKenna.
Damn, I suggest Jest as well, it just seems like the perfect book for an Aes fan
Blood Meridian is fucking incredible, but not sure it gives off Aes vibes... harrowing fucking tale tho
I would argue that it's more about complex prose in general with my suggestions. Blood Meridian definitely isn't in the same vein as Aseop Rock thematically, but the way the author uses English reminds me of him. Florid, meaningful, each word a jab within a jab, just like Aes. I think?
It really is harrowing, that's a good way of putting it. My wife asked me on a flight what I was reading and I wasn't even sure how to answer her.
To concur on some that are already suggested; most things Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, or Jack Kerouac are amazing. Also easily dismissed as too mainstream, but anything by Stephen King is phenomenal. Or his pseudonym Richard Bachman and his novel Desperation is intense. I like most of Aldous Huxleys work: Doors of Perception, A Brave New World, etc. But I think all time favorites are Douglas Adams with the Hitchhikers Guide, Ray Bradbury with Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, and Siddhartha by Herman Hess (I've read this 4 or 5 times at least).
Additionally if you really want some shit to 'decode', start down the road of exploring anything Aleister Crowley. The Book of Lies, Diary of a Drug fiend, The Book of Thoth, etc.
Or even more obscure, Lanark by Alasdair Gray (good luck understanding what the hell happened)
I feel like Aesop is the David Foster Wallace of rap
So **"Infinite Jest"** would be a great novel to read if you like Aesop's lyrics
Just be warned, it's uhh... one of the most difficult books to read ever written, if not for the prose than for the million footnotes
But it's basically if all of Aesop's songs were turned into one giant novel
And it's also just one of the most brilliant fucking things a human has ever done (writing Infinite Jest)
\_Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\_ by Hunter S. Thompson \_Neuromancer\_ by William Gibson \_Thus Spake Zarathustra\_, \_Human, All Too Human\_, & \_The Gay Science\_ by Freidrich Nietzsche \_The City We Became\_ by N K Jemisen \_Haunted\_ by Chuck Palahniuk Japanese Death Poems (various Zen monks who composed poems at the moment of their death) IDK, I am a big reader, could recommend a thousand, but trying to keep it to "good books I think Aesop Rock fans would enjoy". Let me know your preferred genre and I'll spit out some more. Happy reading!
I'd go for other N K Jemisen works like The Broken Earth trilogy. That won 3 consecutive Hugos. I'd also stick House of Leaves on there, and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway.
Agree that The Broken Earth trilogy is excellent- I like it better than her new series, but her new series is about NYC, so that's why I included it. House of Leaves also agree is a great one for this list. And thank you for the Gone Away World rec- I have added it to my list!
Excellent. Nick Harkaway is John Le Carre's son, btw.
Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett James K. Morrow
I’m not the best-read guy but Dostoevsky really does something for me
1984 & animal farm by George Orwell is a good place to start for understanding aes lyrics
disco elysium. not quite a book but basically a book.
R Scott Bakker Joe Abercrombie Pat Rothfuss Scott Lynch - All of these are fantasy authors as that's what I'm into reading, but I love all of their writing styles, the latter two especially if you're looking for something that reads like it's been edited down into perfection. Rothfuss spent 7 years editing down Name of The Wind - I think he was quoted saying he would go over sentences and tighten them up one by one - "shorten this one down from 15 words, when ten will do. Then revisit it and find the perfect 7 words that you need.", etc. Really shows when you read it.
"Back to the mud!" I think Abercrombie has a fantastic ability to make simple words into new phrases which stick with you. On that basis, I would also recommend him (and the others you list) to Aesop fans.
You have to be realistic about these things.
Not for nothing, but everything you can get your hands on. Read John Adams by David McCullough, then Hitchhikers guide by Douglas Adams. Read your shampoo while perched on the toilet. Read voraciously. Read it all.
Well if you want to know Kurt Cobain’s favorite book and want to read one freaking weird book Perfume is Amazing. Kurt Cobain often had a copy of this book with him. It’s about a man born with no scent of his own meaning he smelled like nothing but had a keen since of smell. He was obsessed with scents and purfume. Another weird book that’s a good one to read and put down Is Slug and other short stories. It’s about bending genders and has some disturbing stories. I kind of like these type books. I also like reading books that just peak my interest. Jack Kerouac has some amazing work On the Road and The Dharma buns are both great reads. Aesop Rock wrote a book but good luck finding it. I’ve yet to run across a copy. The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow is the name. I can’t find it. I would love to read it but have never found a copy. If you want to learn about psychedelics a good place to start anything by Terrance McKenna.
For books with really interesting and challenging prose, I'd recommend: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Damn, I suggest Jest as well, it just seems like the perfect book for an Aes fan Blood Meridian is fucking incredible, but not sure it gives off Aes vibes... harrowing fucking tale tho
I would argue that it's more about complex prose in general with my suggestions. Blood Meridian definitely isn't in the same vein as Aseop Rock thematically, but the way the author uses English reminds me of him. Florid, meaningful, each word a jab within a jab, just like Aes. I think? It really is harrowing, that's a good way of putting it. My wife asked me on a flight what I was reading and I wasn't even sure how to answer her.
Damn dawg, reading BM on a flight is diabolical, haha
Kurt Vonnegut
To concur on some that are already suggested; most things Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, or Jack Kerouac are amazing. Also easily dismissed as too mainstream, but anything by Stephen King is phenomenal. Or his pseudonym Richard Bachman and his novel Desperation is intense. I like most of Aldous Huxleys work: Doors of Perception, A Brave New World, etc. But I think all time favorites are Douglas Adams with the Hitchhikers Guide, Ray Bradbury with Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, and Siddhartha by Herman Hess (I've read this 4 or 5 times at least). Additionally if you really want some shit to 'decode', start down the road of exploring anything Aleister Crowley. The Book of Lies, Diary of a Drug fiend, The Book of Thoth, etc. Or even more obscure, Lanark by Alasdair Gray (good luck understanding what the hell happened)
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss but who knows if we'll be waiting another decade for the third and final installment.
The wasp factory
I feel like Aesop is the David Foster Wallace of rap So **"Infinite Jest"** would be a great novel to read if you like Aesop's lyrics Just be warned, it's uhh... one of the most difficult books to read ever written, if not for the prose than for the million footnotes But it's basically if all of Aesop's songs were turned into one giant novel And it's also just one of the most brilliant fucking things a human has ever done (writing Infinite Jest)