Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear 
. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme.
Last week's thread can be found here
For this week's theme: Worlds to get lost in
Books whose settings are so vividly painted that it's a pleasure just to spend time in them. Maybe it's a particular historical moment brought to life or a fantastical world. Perhaps it's a particular scene or milleu. Whatever the case, even if you wouldn't want to live there in real life, you don't want to come back to reality either.
Optional nerd discussion questions
What techniques does the author use to achieve the verisimilitude of their world? What particular aspects of the setting do you, personally, find so compelling? What is most alien about the setting to your own experience? What is most familiar?
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Let me know if you like them! Also, like, to be really really clear, it was written in the 70s and was, I think deliberately, transgressive even for that time.
EDIT: you can get the first 3 of the 5 novels in an anthology called Lords of Darkness. If you just check Amazon it looks like some kind of valuable rare book as the only seller there wants like 100 bucks, but you can find a copy for under 30 if you shop around online.