Literature most like metal

[Conservationist]

The most metal books ever:

* Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
* The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq
* The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
* Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
* White Noise, Don Delillo
* Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
* American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
* The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
* Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
* The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
* Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

These books are metal in spirit and topic, and should keep you reading for awhile. If you haven't read all of them, you might consider it, since most of this list is essential for current cultural literacy anyway. Fiction only.

 

[John Watt]

I almost totally disagree. There will never be heavy metal literature, unless it's lots of pictures about heavy metal bands. Naked Lunch can be referenced this way, having the character Steely Dan, the name of a second dildo after the first got worn out, and featuring a metal typewriter that became a narcoticized insect. The writer also killed his wife in reality with a gunshot.
But are we typing proper English here in this global domain? There are famous metal books. The Book of Mormon was translated from gold and copper plates, and The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and The Book of Life, has a now Hollywood propogated famous metal protective cover. Mummy! Everybody has one now.

 

[Premonition]

i enjoy reading a lot of biographies about metalheads... otherwise, the whole fantasy/occult book/metal thing is quite stupid