For the better or for the worst, which book actually affected you. I’ll start, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Such an amazing book, well written and suprised me.
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The blurb on the back stated that each Lisbon sister k1lled themselves one by one. What I was expecting was throughout every 3 or so chapters, a Lisbon sister would kill themselves. But actually, 85% of the book, was only 1 Lisbon sister dead and the other 4 alive until the end when they all k1lled themselves. If I was told that the large majority of the book was just about the Lisbon girls life through the eyes of teenage boys and then eventually in the end they all k1ll themselves, I would probably be less interested in the book. But this book was hard to put down, it was so well written with amazing vocabulary and it spent the right amount of time explaining things (instead of using 12 pages to describe a staircase or only 3 sentences to describe a plot etc). It kept me interested and also with it being on a slightly alarming topic (suicide), it gave the book an eerie feeling which filled me with a strange comfort.
The Road but unfortunately what it made me feel was despair. For about three days. It wasn’t nice.
This one comes to mind for me. Read it right after my son was born for the first time. I cried at multiple points, the love between the father and son just flies off the page.
I remember looking at our bookshelf when I was 14 and picked out The Road. My mom was like “please please don’t read that” and I never did, but coincidentally I did just start reading No Country for Old Men today
Cormac is the shit. He’s like a friend to me. Blood meridian , All the pretty horses, the crossing, no country, the road… just please please don’t read child of god. Shit was fucked up I felt betrayed
I haven’t read the book yet but remember feeling absolutely hopeless despair when I watched the movie. It’s cool that transferred well to the film
The 1st and only book that made me cry. My 1st was about to be born and this just hit me harder than anything I’ve read before and after. Such a moving book