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Anathemas and Admirations - EM Cioran. It mixes aphorisms with essays, Cioran is my favorite thinker, even better than Nietzsche, who's #2. In this book we see him being a little more comedic and sarcastic, less pessimistic than his earlier works, this was also his last published work.
However currently am wading through the kindle pages of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House and i'm thinking to myself that THAT is what i need more of to read.
However currently am wading through the kindle pages of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House and i'm thinking to myself that THAT is what i need more of to read.
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@Abstraction I believe Cioran is best when discovered solely, so it was risque to mention it.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
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@Abstraction Yeah, he's great as a coping mechanism sort of person, pitch black humor one may say to describe his thought. I read him translated, Richard Howard, who's done most of his French books is really good i think, saves me the trouble of learning another language.
Gouzi · 26-30, M
@Abstraction Nothing like quotations that misrepresents deep ideas. You may say that i am being too serious; however, for me, these ideas are serious.
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A norwegian one called The Lobotomist by Eirik Husby Sæther.
It's about a guy who's raised in a super religious family and ends up with a twisted mind.
He kidnaps his female classmates one at a time to "cure" their perverted minds. (Could be anything from wearing revealing clothes to sleeping around).
The cure is him performing self-taught lobotomy on them, and ofc it goes wrong every time.
The book has a good amount of gory details, yet manages to stay somewhat realistic. I read it through in one sitting.
It's about a guy who's raised in a super religious family and ends up with a twisted mind.
He kidnaps his female classmates one at a time to "cure" their perverted minds. (Could be anything from wearing revealing clothes to sleeping around).
The cure is him performing self-taught lobotomy on them, and ofc it goes wrong every time.
The book has a good amount of gory details, yet manages to stay somewhat realistic. I read it through in one sitting.
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Beyou · 31-35, F
@midnightsun Sci-fi
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Beyou · 31-35, F
@EnchantedArtist2 wow seems full of wisdom
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I'd recommend the following....
Stuart a life backwards by Alexander Masters.
Engelby by Sebastian Faulks.
Time after Time and Two Brothers both by Ben Elton.
Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins, best fictional depiction of an alcoholic I've ever read.
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Woman in the Window by AJ Flynn is very good & Something in The Water by Catherine Steadman
I'd recommend the following....
Stuart a life backwards by Alexander Masters.
Engelby by Sebastian Faulks.
Time after Time and Two Brothers both by Ben Elton.
Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins, best fictional depiction of an alcoholic I've ever read.
Recently
Woman in the Window by AJ Flynn is very good & Something in The Water by Catherine Steadman
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Beyou · 31-35, F
@Longpatrol What is the gist?
Gouzi · 26-30, M
@Longpatrol I didn't find it that compelling actually. If you take the away the unique langugae he invented, i didn't think the story was that deep. I got much more out of Tolkeins Lord of the Rings. The latter is both an enjoying story, which Dune also, but it also has such depth and brillaint prose.
4thdimensiondream · 61-69, M
Abstraction · 61-69, M
Probably Wolf Hall and Bring out the Bodies - two parts of a series. Both won the Man Booker prize. Impeccably researched historical novels following Thomas Cromwell in the time of Henry VIII. Just brilliant on so many levels.
UpForItNow · 22-25, F
Human, All-Too-Human, by Nietzsche.
Sennayara23 · 26-30, T
The art of being normal, Lisa Williamson
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The invisible girl - Mary Shelley
Vetrov · 61-69, M
Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn
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The long march