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I never recommend Dhalgren to anyone. When you are ready for Dhalgren, it will find you.

• ineedasername 3y ago
  I tried one, maybe 20 years ago. I barely remembered it existed. I know I gave it a decent go, at least 100 pages, but it didn't stick. But I've had 20 more years to consume formulaic books, and then more that did quite a bit to subvert those overlapping genres in interest ways. Maybe I'll appreciate what might have been subtleties more nuanced than I had an eye for the first time around, and come at it with a more experienced set of eyes a second time. I'll go dig up something online to go through the beginning, and see if Dhalgren's found me now and buy a copy.
• fnordlord 3y ago
  Totally. I discovered it on a shelf labeled "The Unfuckwithables" in a little indie bookstore years ago, next to Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and William Vollmann. Since I loved the other three, I pretty much had to give it a shot. I still think about it regularly even though I can't really recall any particular storyline or plot. I've always thought it would make for a great procedurally generated game world for some reason.