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Albert Camus' The Outsider which was also a strange book. And made me feel weird and uncomfortable about how the main character handled all the situations. He just seemed to take everything in stride... I don't know, maybe I should read the book again. It was short enough that it wouldn't be a huge time sink to do so anyway.
I read this one this summer and found it horrifyingly relatable.
Shortlist of what I've read (I think) since last:
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy Can't believe I didn't post about this one because it's absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking and I want to read her sorta-recently-released second novel
The Monkeywrench Gang - Edward Abbey Fun and hilarious
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey Awesome, I love this angry environmentalist
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore Cool, but I think the film was better, if sparser
Two Brothers - Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon Amazing but something I could not truly appreciate, I thought
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera If I had to choose just one book to be stuck with the rest of my life... It would probably be this or an Abrahamic religious text. This was absolutely wonderful and I had been meaning to get around to it for about 14 years by the time I read it. Beautiful
Asterios Polyp - David M-something Story was ok, characters were great, design was beautiful
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac Hated Kerouac before reading this - still hate him because I see too much of me there, but I respect him as a writer now and have revised my opinion of On The Road a bit more positively
The Trial - Franz Kafka Terrifying and hilarious
Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie Ok, more an inspiration to explore his fiction
Habibi - Craig Thompson Painful to read but beautiful, with a mystical focus on calligraphy and sacred geometry that really drew me into the world
I know I'm forgetting a lot since I haven't really posted here in almost two years
Currently working on:
The Rebel - Albert CamusThus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich NietzscheThe Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
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