Can someone please recommend me a novel to read that's similar to Evangelion for an English paper? The only restriction from my teacher is that it can't be American or British.
Also, please don't recommend me anything over 600 pages or anything with a ridiculous number of characters to keep track of, just because I have a ton of other academic stuff to focus on. Thanks.
So far, I'm looking into Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Soseki's "Kokoro", Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and Sartre's "Nausea."
And before you recommend me it, I've already read Camus's "The Stranger".
Novels for Evangelion Fans?
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Re: Novels for Evangelion Fans?
The first thing that comes to mind is a short-story by an Australian (Greg Egan's Closer); novels I'm currently drawing a blank on.beaverteeth92 wrote:Can someone please recommend me a novel to read that's similar to Evangelion for an English paper? The only restriction from my teacher is that it can't be American or British.
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"The Beast That Shouted Love At the Heart of the World" by Harlan Ellison.
"The tranquil angel's thesis has ended, so now it is beginning/ Clinging tightly to the life you protect/ You will receive an answer from that dream~
--Epilogue of Evangelion
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Woops, missed that part of your original post. Hurt myself for -10 points.
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Catchuh in the Ryeth
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Catcher in the Rye
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Catcher in the Rye
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I considered it, then realized that with all my Chem, Physics, and Stat work, I won't be able to dedicate a ridiculous amount of time to this.
And InstrumentalityOne, no American or British.
BTW, right now, I'm deciding between Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night" and Bugakov's "The Master and Margarita."
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^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
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Lovecraft is American, isn't he? Guess he's out.
I read that as "Cthulhu in the R'lyeh."
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Re: Novels for Evangelion Fans?
what did you go with in the end?
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