Book Suggestions?

[socksnsandles]

any genre

 

[_AllCatsAreGrey_]

When it comes to fiction, I really like the work of Haruki Murakami.

 

[socksnsandles]

When it comes to fiction, I really like the work of Haruki Murakami.

ill check it out. anything in particular i should start with?

 

[_AllCatsAreGrey_]

ill check it out. anything in particular i should start with?

My start was his book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

As a treat, I'll share the first two paragraphs of the book.

"From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuru Taxaki could think about was dying. He turned twenty during this time, but his special watershed - becoming an adult - meant nothing. Taking his own life seemed the most natural solution, and even now he couldn't say why he hadn't taken this final step. Crossing the threshold between life and death would be easier than swallowing down a slick, raw egg.

"Perhaps he didn't commit suicide then because he couldn't conceive of a method that fit the pure and intense feelings he had toward death. But method was beside the point. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought, as if it were a part of ordinary life. For better or for worse, though, there was no such door nearby."

Now I want to reread it!

 

[unique pumpkin]

any genre

Waiting for the barbarians by J.M. Coetzee .
I'm currently reading it and it's AMAZING

 

[asaṅkhata]

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

I finished it the other day. Unironically one of the most comforting book I've ever read.

 

[Grav]

Anything by Arthur Machen. It makes me want to smoke a pipe and walk the countryside.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

No longer human

no longer human by osamu dazai

 

[socksnsandles]

My start was his book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

As a treat, I'll share the first two paragraphs of the book.

"From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuru Taxaki could think about was dying. He turned twenty during this time, but his special watershed - becoming an adult - meant nothing. Taking his own life seemed the most natural solution, and even now he couldn't say why he hadn't taken this final step. Crossing the threshold between life and death would be easier than swallowing down a slick, raw egg.

"Perhaps he didn't commit suicide then because he couldn't conceive of a method that fit the pure and intense feelings he had toward death. But method was beside the point. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought, as if it were a part of ordinary life. For better or for worse, though, there was no such door nearby."

Now I want to reread it!

this definitely peaked my intrigue. will give it a read. thanks

 

[garcelle]

Beastars, yes I am being deadass

 

[an_alias]

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino is basically the only thing that can make me smile nowadays

 

[KenDuh]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte