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Michael Hanquiniouax

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Celine, Houellebecq, Hamsun, Krasznahorkai, Fallada, Patrick Hamilton, ...more

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Michael Hanquiniouax (Han-Kwin-Oh) is a writer originally from Yorkshire whose books focus on the banality of modernity and the existential emptiness of Western civilisation.

Inspired by works that touch upon similar themes and which attempt to explore the pointless nightmare of human existence, his first book Otrera follows a man through a world of isolation, repetition, and detachment.

This platform is my only method for finding potential new readers of my work (I cannot be arsed doing more than the bare minimum... it's part of my charm) so it would be much appreciated if you read OTRERA and wrote a review (even a bad one).

If you're a writer in a similar position let me know, and I'll read your terrible book in return.
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Otrera

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Wonderfully written, captivating without being formulaic. This book successfully combines high calibre writing with an engrossing story full of interesting characters. It's very difficult to find serious faults. Perhaps the middle section which slows ...more
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The Sundays of Jean Dézert by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
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Do it or don't do it. You will regret both.

Existentialism before the word really existed, a book about accepting that there are no forks in the road, only the illusion of forks in the road.
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The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
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Great start but hurtles down a cul-de-sac.

A man removes his moustache but nobody notices, this incident informing each step of his life as it falls apart and his mind unravels while his understanding of reality conflicts with that of everyone else.

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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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What's the point of anything? Shut up!

Mercilessly nihilistic and cynical. Often hilarious.
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Voss by Patrick White
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Patrick White is a genius and some of his writing is worthy of a Nobel Prize (so it's good that he's got one). It often reaches heights that are mesmerising. This story is one of those examples of what many great writers like to do -- take a real lif ...more
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Stoner by John  Williams
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Life is all about waiting to get cancer.

Wonderful to read.
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Normal People by Sally Rooney
Normal People
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People who aren't very normal and don't have actual problems have sex for a bit. Then retire to Italy or something.

Female-orientated romance novel dressed up as literary fiction.

Inoffensive.
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Emil M. Cioran
“The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the original source of life.”
― Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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