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?

  • BJntheRV@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler will hang in my mind forever. It’s only been a few months but I’m already ready to read it again.

    • JesyouJesmeJesus@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Read this for the first time in June, and I’m not sure I’ve been more shaken by a story than that. Need to read the sequel, but I’m keen to ride out the lingering feeling from it first

    • SpendingMyTime@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You just helped confirm that I need to read it. Was on the fence, know almost nothing, and am ready

    • marconis999@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I read it recently, and it’s very memorable.

      I read that the sequel, Parable of the Talents, has the President, a religious demagogue, have as his slogan “Make America Great Again.” I kid you not. Written about 25 years ago.

    • muthermcreedeux@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I read this book more than 20 years ago and I still think about it all the time. One of my favorite books of all time.