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?

  • lanky_planky@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been reading (listening to, actually) “Children of Ruin” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The story involves dna modified octopi (octopuses?) who are in many ways advanced beyond human capabilities.

    His description of the way their internal cognitive processes work (the connection between their “crown” brain and the separate brains in their arms, collectively their “reach”), their behavior, their motivations and their means of communications is so intriguing, imaginative and absolutely believable - it’s just fascinating, I can’t stop thinking about it. He must have done a lot of research and extrapolated from there.

    There are other imagined alien species in the story, also well imagined, but those octopi really blew my mind. I’ll never be able to see an octopus again without visualizing them in the way he has.