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?
Annihilation is one of my favorite books. The way I sucks you into the weird, mysterious world is amazing. I didn’t like the other two in the trilogy quite as much but still enjoyed them. Apparently he is working on a fourth book! I also loved Borne, which has a completely different vibe. The audiobook was great because of the voice for Borne.
I ended up not finishing the Martian chronicles for whatever reason, but I agree they’re a delight. It’s funny to read about old ideas of space travel, like that a spaceship would land somewhere and have no idea what was there (and not predicting that we’d have the whole planet mapped by probes long before anyone lands.) It makes sense though, that’s what it was like for the old explorers. I’m reading books about polar expedition from the 1800s and they used to think there was was a nice, moderate climate sea over the North Pole if they just got past the ring of ice around it. And didn’t find out differently until someone went there.
I added The Lathe of Heaven to my list
That’s funny. The voice of Borne was one of the only things I did not like. Still, really cool. Gonna read Annihilation once it’s available at the library.
Someone sold me on Borne by saying “there’s a giant, flying bear and he does not care to explain how or why he can fly.”