Yeah Hurricane season is exactly like that lol. I think it works in its favour though, the story itself is exhausting so it makes sense that the prose is too

This one really grew on me as I went on. I was bored stiff for a while but stuck with it cause Hamilton is an incredible writer on a sentence level, and it slowly managed to suck me in.

It's about a boarding house just outside London during world war 2. There's not that much in the way of plot, it's more of a mood piece that focuses on the relationships between the people that live there. The whole thing has an incredibly claustrophobic and tense atmosphere but there's some wry humour that keeps it from being too bleak. It captures the mood of the time and place really well.

There's some f***ing incredible quotes in it:

On London:

"London, the crouching monster, like every other monster has to breathe, and breathe it does in its own obscure, malignant way. Its vital oxygen is composed of suburban working men and women of all kinds, who every morning are sucked up through an infinitely complicated respiratory apparatus of trains and termini into the mighty congested lungs, held there for a number of hours, and then, in the evening, exhaled violently through the same channels."

On insomnia:

"What a thing this sleeplessness was! . . . If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake in a dark place, then sleeplessness was a roaring ocean, a raging, wind-buffeted voyage, lit with mad rocket-lights, pursued by wild phantoms from behind, plunging upon fearful rocks ahead, a mad tempest of the past and present and future all in one. Through all this the pale, strenuous mariner must somehow steer a way, until at last the weary dawn, not of sleep, but of resignation to sleeplessness, comes to calm the waters of the mind."

Good s***!

That London quote
This s*** hard asl

I read this recently and I knew it was going to be an all time favorite for me after less than a 100 pages. I’ve never cried more reading a book more than I did reading this one.

When you get to the scene where you understand what the title of the book means. Jesus christ.

Bruhhhh, that scene f***ed me up no lie, then reading the title

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

Not sure how I feel about this one. Very packed,very dense. I really enjoyed the first and third part but the second dragged too much.
Maybe science fiction isn't for me to be honest. I love the idea of reading a science fiction book but I still haven't found the one that wow-ed me, and it gets pretty hard to pick them up.
I spent way too much time reading this, I don't really know why.

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

This is my third Murakami book, prior to this I read Norwegian Wood and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

And he is 3/3. Not sure if I prefer this one over NW but both books shared the same feelings. Part anxiety, part floating on the clouds. He is a master of giving suspense by writing calmly. I'm still thinking about this book, it left a big impression on me.
Also as a side note, I don't really care about the way he writes women in his books, that's a big criticism I see but it doesn't really affect how much I enjoy his prose.

Forgot to post this a few weeks ago.

James Bridles first book is not bad. It’s just not as good as his 2nd. In New Dark Age Bridle tackles our worlds current opaque technology system and our in ability to unpack the information correctly and how we can start reframe our thinking of said technology. Each chapter has a through line for the whole book but essentially only like 3 chapters are super important and really mind blowing. Can’t shake the feeling that it might have just better to release a few really strong essays instead of release a book that’s like pretty okay. The editing was pretty atrocious. Literal paragraphs that are repeated and sentences that are nearly identical minus an adjective. Also sentences that seriously made no sense. I’ve read some dense and esoteric s*** but these sentences where actual nonsense.

Solid 5/10

If it’s just the 3 chapters that really shine then it’s a 10/10.
Still recommend though. Check out his Ted Talk on the subject matter of kids youtube videos and algorithms.

Read this in January and I still think about it so much. Right when I finished, I thought it deserved a 3/5 rating because of how manipulated I felt but I eventually decided on 4/5. It’s lingered in my mind so beautifully though. I’ve never wanted to reread something so quick and I think it might be 5/5 to me one day

Real s***. A part of it definitely feels manipulative but the novel is so engrossing. Like watching a train wreck, you can’t look away.

after reading this and the people in the trees, all I can think is that Hanya Yanagihara is one fked up person lmao

still looking forward to reading to paradise though

def wanna check her other work now

Fun, fast paced sci fi thriller, but it’s a pure romance at its core and I love it for that most importantly. Great quick read to get me back into the flow of reading.

4/5

Finished yesterday

how was?

Post your thoughts my man

Just finished reading 1984 and damn

Big Brother based af

very unadorned writing, a dispassionate and striking critique of the prison industrial complex through a few character’s eyes. very much worth the quick read. pretty brilliant

Finished Leviathan Wakes yesterday

F***ing amazing read. Never saw the tv series so I didnt know what to expect. After the Cant gets attacked s*** just kicks into overdrive and does not stop.

Already ordered Book 2 cant wait

Amazing book man, kept me up that night tbh. Often struggle with extreme indifference myself and this s*** hit hard. Cus almost everything Mersault says makes total sense (to me), but it also shows what that kind of mindset brings you in life, absolutely nothing. Aside from that I’m starting to get a feeling for what kind of books I like. I really like these kind of shorter books with simple prose, rather have a book with a great idea/message/story than one where the writer is stunting on me with sentences I have to read 5 times to understand. Also kind of want to read his Sisyphus book, is it as good as this one does anybody know?

Real. I need to read the stranger again. The breakdown/outburst at the end of the book was top stuff. I also like short books that go straight to the point, but when that prose is beautiful, s*** hits different. I'll always plug The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien because that's the one book that I can't get over how well-written it is while still being compact/no filler

@KoGoYos

Yeah, really liked this. Vagabond wondering through the wilderness trying to find himself is my bread and butter, and this is a top tier example of that. Loved the contrast of Hakan growing wilder and wilder as a person as America grows less and less wild around him. He's a great character, story is epic and the whole thing is beautifully written. Very good!