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70% complete! people like books has read 21 of 30 books.
interviews au format long sur les pratiques de la scène punk do it yourself des années 90 à nos jours. …
@realityasylumreads I thought it was good but not mind blowing, like super well-crafted and vibey but nothing to really sink my teeth into. I read the memory police a few years ago and really liked it. You read this recently ya? What'd you think?
In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone …
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, …
@astralstreeting I think you could read any of them without reading the others, they're not too dependent on each other overall. The sixth one is quite different from the others though, it's a lot more meta and covers his process of writing the books and fallout with various family and then he just sorta goes off the rails and talks about writing and philosophy and Hitler for a few hundred pages, I lost steam around then. So I switched to audiobook and listened while working the xmas rush to power through it... I was pretty determined to finish. But I didn't enjoy this one. Truly my struggle lol.
The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing …
@Carnivalesque yeah, I was also a bit intimidated. Its definitely intense but very readable!
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, …
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique …
This was incredibly good. I was totally transported into a time and place that I know very little about, and feel changed by the experience, which is pretty much the crux of why I like reading.
Learning more about the author, his perspective on writing the book and how it intervenes in contemporary Brazilian politics has also been cool (one of many interesting interviews/articles: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-09/reading-to-coexist-a-conversation-with-itamar-vieira-junior-ana-laura-malmaceda/)
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, …
The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the …
This book is so much harder than the other ones. And soo much longer. Also the first half is translated by a different person? I am struggling a bit.
