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?
“Fear Book”. I think it was a Dean Koontz book. You had to suspend your disbelief a bit, true. What made it stick in my head was the fear book itself.
If you hid your anger or rage about a person, and you opened up the book, you would read how to harm that person and get away with it. If you didn’t hide your anger, the pages were blank. That was such a novel concept that it blew my mind.
The second thing that made it stick in my mind was one of the main character’s recounts their psychological abuse at the hands of their parents, and this character’s wife said what I was thinking “Whatever he did to them, they deserved it.”