@moomin I've had Moviegoer on my to read list for awhile now after hearing it's basically The Divine Comedy but at Mardi Gras. Any issue with it so it should be skipped or were you just not in the right mood for it?
I finished War & War which may very well have the bleakest ending of any novel I've read. Spoiler for anyone who cares.
It ends (more or less; the epilogue I couldn't really grasp) with a link to the website the protagonist Korin spent most the novel working on. He was copying the text of an anonymous manuscript he found in an archive by chance; so profoundly touching to the suicidal Korin that he decides to upload it into digital immortality to give his suicide some kind of meaning (even though, as he claims, "my life had none"). When you go to warandwar.com (the link) you get a 404 message:
"Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server.
Additionally, please be informed that this home page service has been called off due to recurring overdue payment. Attempted mail deliveries to Mr. G. Korin have been returned to sender with a note: address unknown. Consequently, all data have been erased from this home page."
@Rambler The only other book I read by him was The Pigeon, is that the one? It's about a guy who has a break down as he sees a pigeon at his flat which is as silly and brilliant as it sounds.
Picked up the Final Fantasy VII Remake Material Ultimania last year and found it really insightful. It's very clear that all the devs working on that game were in love with the original. Especially loved the full-page character renders and the notes on the soundtrack!
I was disappointed when I got the VII-VIII-IX Ultimania book tbh. I was expecting more obscure trivia and developer interviews etc. Also they barely covered VIII compared to the others.
Does the VII Remake Ultimania have more nerd trivia?
Berlin Alexanderplatz has been interesting so far. It kind of takes the Good Man Corrupted By Society trope but makes it Terrible Man Further Corrupted By Society. There's something very compelling about seeing the protagonist ruining his life and learning absolutely nothing.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
Finished the Plague. I don't think Camus has much of an eye for aesthetics but the Plague is more a novel of ideas so I guess that's to be expected. Anyway, I enjoyed the Stranger more. I started on Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the country. I'm on track with 7 books out of my goal of 52.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
This month of April besides me still busy with Dune Battle of Corrin, Imi also going to be reading Star Wars High Republic Fallen Star and the Paperbacks From Hell
Kafka is great, haven't read Steppenwolf but I loved Siddhartha. Hell I didnt even realize Hesse was German(/Swiss) lol. I'm kind of in the mood for non-fiction. I finished an 800 page political biography of Deng Xiaoping (I like hoarding knowledge about the PRC like weirdo).
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
Seems like a really interesting place. I bet you could find some other interesting things there, books and more.
I really wish I never lent my thrifted hardback copy of Jurassic Park to my sister in law, she disappeared the book like it was a magic trick. I miss that book.
I've been reading more stuff about China. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of writing about Jiang Zemin but I've got a basic idea of the Hu Jintao years.
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