If you’re anything like me, you probably read a lot of books and forget a lot about them as well after reading them (also see: being ADHD)
Is there one specific book whose plot, characters, setting you just can’t get out of your mind and still think about today even when in the midst of another book?
For me, it’s 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I think due to the sheer volume of this book (clocked in over 1000 pages) I was so invested in Tengo and Aomame’s stories that it’s quite impossible to forget them quickly. This is also why I prefer long novels, because they stick around in my memory for longer!
So what book is still stuck with you?
I read Frankenstein for the first time this year, the original text. It struck me hard, and I can’t stop psychoanalyzing Victor, hahaha.
Great book. Mary Shelley deserves a standing ovation.
Greetings from Ingolstadt!
Same here!
After finishing it, I finally understand this meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/comments/17hdj2z/so_deep/
Currently reading this whilst I’m at work, I’ve no idea whether the plot ends up following the films, but this is vastly different from what I was expecting.
I read it for the first time this year as well!
And she wrote it when she was 18-19 years old.
Crazy to think of…
It’s amazing 😊
My favourite fucking book. It’s so profound though. This soul, this creature, was only looking for love and companionship, a pure soul at the start of his journey, marred by this world’s cruelty… Also - this absolutely impeccable gothic atmosphere, these letters from travelling around the frozen Russian cities…
Just read this for my uni subject, it has to be one of my favourite books now. The section about grief really took me off guard, it sounds stupid but for an author to describe it so perfectly and for me 200 years later to relate blew my little pea brain.
I’m reading it right now. Very early into it, but it is leaving a strong impression so far.