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[snes9x]

I finished Parasite Eve and I would definitely recommend it. Makes me want to replay the game.

Rereading Infinite Jest (lol) and trying to get through Martyr! but it reads like I'm watching a Netflix comedy-drama, idk if that makes sense. It's not awful but I wanted to give something contemporary (≥2020) a chance and my impression has been not very good.

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Currently re-reading 'Suicide' by Éduoard Levé. One of my favorites. The author ended his own life shortly after it was written, but I find that it's a surprisingly optimistic rumination on life and love/friendship.

Ooh, that sounds right up my alley.

 

[lestagio]

Just started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. My previous read was the Bachman Books Collection (Stephen King, contains Rage, Long Walk, Roadwork, and Running Man) which were all pretty solid. I've never read any King before that. I've been looking into some other King books like Misery, as I hear that his books under the Bachman name aren't indicative to a lot of his work. I especially enjoyed The Long Walk, though.

 

[Spyrone]

Just started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. My previous read was the Bachman Books Collection (Stephen King, contains Rage, Long Walk, Roadwork, and Running Man) which were all pretty solid. I've never read any King before that. I've been looking into some other King books like Misery, as I hear that his books under the Bachman name aren't indicative to a lot of his work. I especially enjoyed The Long Walk, though.

A lot of the Bachman Books are more brutal and far more cynical than his normal stuff. The Running Man is one of my favorite books of all time. Misery is good, the others I'd recommend are Cujo, Carrie, It, Pet Sematary, Desperation/The Regulators (those two are back to back and take place in parallel universes, The Regulators being the Bachman universe), Cell, The Stand Uncut and 11/22/63. I'm definitely more of fan of his scifi and horror stuff though, but I've heard good things about The Green Mile and Hearts In Atlantis. Also definitely check out his short story collections, like Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

 

[Ikagura]

A lot of the Bachman Books are more brutal and far more cynical than his normal stuff. The Running Man is one of my favorite books of all time. Misery is good, the others I'd recommend are Cujo, Carrie, It, Pet Sematary, Desperation/The Regulators (those two are back to back and take place in parallel universes, The Regulators being the Bachman universe), Cell, The Stand Uncut and 11/22/63. I'm definitely more of fan of his scifi and horror stuff though, but I've heard good things about The Green Mile and Hearts In Atlantis. Also definitely check out his short story collections, like Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Bachman >>> King.


Hehehe.

 

[solnK!]

Been wanting to read Moby Dick, might as well doing it soon.

 

[snes9x]

Moby Dick was surprisingly homoerotic, though concepts of sexuality don't translate 1:1 through every era/culture. If anything it just proves we need to hug our homies more often.