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For some reason the woman with her Princess phone who was scared of lightning still makes me sad to think about.

Move over strand games, it's time for strand books.

I haven’t read that in 10-15 years so I’m looking forward to rereading it again soon

I just read this one a few months back. It's the only book that made me feel like i was going insane in parts reading it. So amazing (i do not want to reread it)

there’s definitely some parts of it that are very good, especially as he starts losing his grasp of sanity, but I didn’t get anything out of the various accounts of drug and sex escapades that you have to wade through

Book #6 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Unfortunately haven’t been reading a lot lately, but finally finished this. Gabo’s thick prose was intimidating at times, but the depth of his characters is mesmerizing. Certainly a fascinating exploration on the complexities of love.

VERY mellow, VERY Murakami this one. And that was nice. :3

I really enjoy the covers for the 2015 editions of all his books (like this one here). It’s so neat they all form a big puzzle. There’s a diagram of it here. 99designs.com/blog/famous-...

My favourite Murakami! I find his more recent works a bit stodgy, but this is so breezy and as you say, just a good time.

wind/pinball are both pretty fun too

I definitely need to read more Haruki. Kafka on the Shore was so weird. I both hated and loved it and still think about it two years after reading it.

I didn’t! I did my best to check all the footnotes and everything, but some things did elude me

haha yeah this might scare you away from reading again 😭 definitely one to work up to

The first 100 or so pages was definitely the hurdle for me, that was like 3 months, and then I finished the rest in 2 weeks. You start getting a lot of the mostly blank pages after that haha

Such a phenomenally creepy book! Was reading it while also playing Killer 7, and had to put the game away for later, because I was getting messed up. 😬

listened to this a lot as a teen!

I read this book in 2008? Something like that. And I remember being blown away by it. I really need to give it a re-read

yeah it’s so popular and it’s such a specialized printing, that I’m not surprised 🥲 I think the used copy I got was around $20

this one took me a full month I think, it's such a beast. really enjoyed it though, and the letters at the end made me cry lol

Oh this one. 😱

I love this one and also kind of an eye-opener looking up what that comically huge sum of money is adjusted for inflation

I’m slowly going through his works, read 4 of his novels so far. Cat’s Cradle’s ending stands out in my mind as one of the best of anything. I think it’s tied with Sirens of Titan for my fave of his I’ve read so far, but it’s also been over a decade since I read Slaughterhouse.

I'm actually almost finished with Sirens of Titan right now! I read Slaughterhouse-Five in one sitting in college, and now Vonnegut my favorite author

whoa, that’s a new favorite of mine!

Such a fun read! I always think of the riddle with the tooth horses.

My main memory of this book is still just Gandalf inviting person after person into Bilbo's home while he just goes "oh geez oh no please stop oh geez" which i gotta hand it to Tolkien, comedy gold

Also LOT OF WALKING

I loved him throwing flaming pine cones at the wargs lol As a little kid my image of a wizard was like... conjuring fireballs and lightning bolts out of thin air. The fact that he needed a medium for fire was strange and interesting to me even as a pre-teen.

Yeah, OG Gandalf is rather OP.

Tbh those are basically the two most critical pieces of the Middle-earth lore

I love that cover and form factor

If you want to go for my other childhood fav you could read Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. A classic of children's literature!

Best book/story ever made.