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?
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.
This book was crazy, every single character was so damn interesting and the 1800’s Russia put such an ambience to the book that I couldn’t read anything after finishing it. The book had no boring moments, no useless character. And the main character, the illness and the absurd were intriguing. The answers to each question made you ask 10 new questions.
What I thought was going to be a simple story about a guy trying to get away with murder ended up being a complex psychological and philosophical book about moral, reality, paranoia, apathy, will to live, history, and more.