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?

  • Morning-Song@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Came here to say this! I know this book gets a lot of criticism because of it’s slow place and it’s a bit anticlimactic. I found the book to be so captivating and ethereal. It sits with me so much - I cried at the end after reading the final few pages. Just hits something so deep!

    • DoubleDrummer@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Many years ago, I threw a blanket down in my back yard, and sat down to watch the world.
      It was a day that was not too hot, nor too cold.
      I watched the bees do their work, I watched the clouds slowly drift, I sat for hours watching the tendrils of a pumpkin vine twist and crawl along a fence.
      It was a day where very little happened and yet every nuance of it is engrained in my mind like magic.

      Piranesi was like that day.