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?

  • stolethemorning@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think they were each perfectly suited to the type of media they were presented as. There’s no way the movie could have included her reading all the diaries, but in the book it was a chilling insight into the minds of those who came before and what they discovered. And the book couldn’t have presented the beautiful scene at the end of the movie with the mirroring.