More like this...

More like this? I really love books that are basically about partying and drunken debauchery but with an underlying melancholy. The Sun Also Rises is a good example.

Pls no American Psycho or House of Leaves.

Down and Out in Paris and London
Tropic of Cancer

>Pls no American Psycho
Is this intended to rule out all BEE too

because Less Than Zero sounds pretty close to what you're describing

also Almost Transparent Blue if you want weeb version

Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

basically the holy text of those kinds of books

Good taste but I dont think OP is looking for that type of book.

Not all BEE books. He seems up my alley I'm just not tryna fuck with edgy nonsense lol. I'll probably read Less Than Zero.

The Ginger Man

Less Than Zero's pretty interesting. It isn't all that edgy (until a certain point near the end of the novel where Brett decides to stop trying to be a proper novelist and starts being an edgy fag). But there's a lot of really great stuff in the first half of Less Than Zero, stuff that makes me believe Brett would have been a much better novelist (probably one of the best contemporary writers) if he'd just cultivated the kind of techniques he uses at the start, rather than the pseudo-satirical shock porn he gets into at the end, and subsequently builds his career on.

not the book he wants but the book he needs

>Down and Out in Paris and London
not much about drunken debauchery but definitely on point with the underlying melancholy.

It's an obvious choice and you may have already read it, but Fear and Loathing definitely has that feel to it.

BEE urself's books are all exactly the same though.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

lol came here to post this

>underlying melancholy
>underlying

the great gatsby hehe

Junkie -Burroughs

Dont trust my spelling, im Friday
meaning not sober

Oh, also Suttree by McCarthy

I've been thinking about writing a book about my own drunken/high melancholy parties

Taipei

Despite the memes, this.
Fear and Loathing is saved from being a meaningless drug romp by the brief moments of clarity that reveal just how fucked everything is.

I know Veeky Forums dislikes Kerouac, and it's often misinterpreted, but On the Road has a similar feel. Sal chases the beauty of the American dream from one wild trip to the next but is ultimately abandoned by everything in which he places his hope.

How fucking depressed is Veeky Forums if this is your idea of "underlying" melancholy

U no like Suttree, user?

I think you didn't understand my post