As a fan it was really cool hearing about some of the background stories behind certain roles and why he decided to change his career the way he has. If you don't care for him or his films I don't see the point of reading it tbh, I thought it was really entertaining for what it was though.

What a read. Very good and really got me thinking about disconnecting even more from technology/the internet. Got any reccs of a similar nature?

Alright alright alright

not the same subject, but breath by James Nestor was similar in how it made me more self-aware about controlling my mind/body. Same kind of cultural blind spots, and the authors approach the topics in the same casual way.

Thanks for the recc. This was a book I had on my mind so I'll give it a shot soon.

my first kazuo ishiguro novel... I really enjoyed it, I went in with no clue what the story was about and I think that's the best way to experience this book. definitely gave me a lot to ponder about by the time I was done. good writing, strong themes, and an engaging premise. too slow in some moments and too fast in others but overall I liked it. I'll have to check out the movie soon and see how well they adapted it.

been really slacking this summer so far, gotta step it up

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

wouldn't consider myself a Peterson fan but stumbled across this book and some of the chapters/rules seemed pretty relevant to me so I gave it a shot. there were a few chapters that really resonated and were well written but I thought a lot of it was off topic and like Peterson was trying to shoehorn his own agendas (anti communism, anti feminism, anti pc culture) into the maxims and that's the kind of Peterson material I'm not interested in at all. if you take some of that out I would've enjoyed this book more but I could how the rules/book would be helpful to others. might read the sequel as there are a few rules there that intrigue me as well.

7/10

7.5/10
Randomly started reading this after someone suggested it in another thread. It talks about something I deal daily since I will work in an hospital if I keep finding the motivation to study and end university. The words coming from the protagonist, his struggles and his reactions to the unknown are identical to the patients I had. Even the young boy that helped the man in his deathbed and the doctors pattern described here are painted the same way. We all might be in a similar position where the protagonist was in the near future.
Some parts were a bit a chore to read and became redundant after a while but I understand what Tolstoy was trying to do writing the book like this.

Finished Tarantino's novelization of *One Upon a Time... in Hollywood**. Super easy read given that it's written in the present tense and all the characters and major points are familiar. It wasn't just a lazy retread of the movie. I think it has some merit as literature. You get more pathology and Tarantino weaves a meta western into it. He also focuses a lot on how actors become their roles, and I think that applies to how readers are consumed by what they read.

Rick Dalton is like playdough in anybody's hands, and there's a bit about Cliff mesmerizing him when telling him what it's like to kill. There's a bit about Polanski manipulating his audience. It seems like Tarantino is commenting on his own power over his audience. There's a bigger effort to rehabilitate Polanski in the novel, which makes the heavier pedophile content a bit weird. Cliff has Deborah Joe, Rick has Trudi, Manson has his girls, etc. Even George and Squeaky have a big age gap. Weird for the novel to be about how playing out a fiction internalizes the substance and then be largely about stuff like that. Polanski justifies by just saying he does it because he can.

Kind of gross, but the structure is interesting and it was a page turner. I don't consider it redundant if you like the movie.

just finished Norwegian Wood and f***.
Easily the best book I've read this year and probably my favourite of all time

I think I picked this up at the perfect time,something about the cold melancholic setting and the coming of age feel made it deeply resonating with me.

will you read any of Murakami's other work?

Of course,only thing I have read before was "What I Talk When I Talk About Running" and that was brilliant,but this was next level.

I'm def gonna go through all his books.
You got a fav?

I need to read his running book since I run too.

my personal favorite so far is The Wind Up Bird Chronicle but I've only read 4 of his books so that could change.

I was planning on checking out that one next.

I really love how simple but raw his writing style is.
Running was like having a conversation with a friend,I breezed through it in a day

wind up bird is amazing to me. it does deal with more surreal elements though so just be prepared for that. norwegian wood is really one of his only books that stick to realism throughout the entirety lol. but the writing is still very raw and beautiful

hes 2/2 for me so I'm definitely going through his books,thank you for the recommendation

definitely and let me know what you think, love talking about his work.

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Interastin'

just finished Dune for the first time yesterday

👨🏻‍⚖️🗣❓🤐☠️🪦/10

Just finished this in under five days. Really good story with good pacing. Main thing I liked was how well written the descriptions were in this story.

Simple and not an overkill of info.

Why tf am I just discovering this sxn? 😭😭😭

Finished Beloved by Toni Morrison the other day & it was such a tough read for me that I immediately jumped into a re-read of HP & the Sorcerer’s stone lol

Started reading Lolita today

Beloved is my favorite book prolly

I loved it so much. I’m usually not drawn to stories that deal with American slavery cause I feel like it’s been over done but this was such an interesting take on slavery and its consequences.

The chapter where Sethe speaks in 1st person to Beloved explaining her actions & saying she wished she could lay in her grave with her was one of the most beautiful and heart breaking things I’ve ever read