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?

  • Plastic-Total7235@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Omg this one has stuck with me too, since I read the novel version two decades ago and have read/watched the play and every version on it I could find since. I’m not one for mushy “true love” kinds of stories but I honestly think it’s the greatest love story (that and Evangeline - another tragedy lol), even though it’s got so much cat-fishing going on XD but for someone to commit basically their entire life to someone else’s happiness (or her perceived happiness anyway), and then to realize too late her actual happiness would have been his happiness too… it’s just 😩 and the characters, like you said, are fun and interesting. And you can see why the main two like each other, they are both clever and witty and have overlapping interests, and have spent a lot of their lives together. It just has so much more depth than a lot of other romances.

    I’m an animator and it’s been my dream to make an animation of this. How weird how some stories just stick