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Decadence Books
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Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,330 ratings — published 1884
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,893,114 ratings — published 1890
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,908 ratings — published 1857
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 36 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,766 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,045 ratings — published 1891
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,851 ratings — published 1899
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.63 — 16,783 ratings — published 1870
Il piacere (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,828 ratings — published 1889
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 228 ratings — published 1895
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 18 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,039 ratings — published 1874
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,023 ratings — published 1884
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,943,100 ratings — published 1925
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,550 ratings — published 1857
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.13 — 184 ratings — published 1901
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,152 ratings — published 1892
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.68 — 69,138 ratings — published 1911
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.24 — 41 ratings — published 2016
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published 1990
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.96 — 216 ratings — published 2013
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,972 ratings — published 1869
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,063 ratings — published 1945
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,420 ratings — published 1835
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,364 ratings — published 1907
Disagreeable Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.54 — 564 ratings — published 1894
Salammbo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,667 ratings — published 1862
Dreamers of Decadence (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.38 — 144 ratings — published 1969
On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,328 ratings — published 1851
Tomorrow's Eve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.15 — 711 ratings — published 1886
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.06 — 379,618 ratings — published 1971
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,781 ratings — published 1890
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.30 — 594 ratings — published 1986
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.86 — 49,338 ratings — published 1885
Contes cruels (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.62 — 780 ratings — published 1883
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.17 — 406,890 ratings — published 1895
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,734 ratings — published 1873
The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.03 — 63 ratings — published 1997
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.44 — 102 ratings — published 1998
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,865 ratings — published 1959
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.34 — 29 ratings — published 1992
The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (Phaidon Arts and Letters)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,121 ratings — published 1863
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 7 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,654 ratings — published 1990
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,689 ratings — published 1953
The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 1896
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,966 ratings — published 1890
The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.15 — 80 ratings — published 2018
Misty Thule (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 1891
Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.69 — 16 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 3.95 — 296 ratings — published 2001
The Book of Jade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadence)
avg rating 4.08 — 64 ratings — published 1901
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
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“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very process of modeling. It consumes evermore computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
