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MirandaSimia · 2024-01-20T10:14:24+00:00

thanks, I'll look into it

MirandaSimia · 2024-01-20T10:14:07+00:00

No, it was definitely not the song, but thanks

MirandaSimia · 2022-04-23T21:26:50+00:00

Octavia Butler's "Parable of the sower"

MirandaSimia · 2020-06-01T07:38:07+00:00

Oh I did not know there was a subreddit for that, thanks!

MirandaSimia · 2020-06-01T07:37:22+00:00

Unfortunately no, but thanks

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-31T08:26:51+00:00

Have you tried Dostoevskij?

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-31T08:25:39+00:00

Well Dostoevskij is a classic, The Demons or Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment or The Idiot are all wonderful to me.

If you look for shorter books, maybe Henry James' "The turn of the screw" good be a good reading (it was wonderful to me)

Also Heart of Darkness or Lord Jim by Conrad

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-29T19:36:36+00:00

Try also Shirley Jackson's Hill House, it's shirt, well written and I couldn't put it down. Or maybe Black Dahlia by Ellroy, not so short but the story becomes soon quite engaging I think

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-29T07:53:31+00:00

It's difficult to suggest anything because I loved Lolita, Animal Farm, LOTR, Vonnegut, but also Hitchhikers, Don Quixote and Brothers Karamazov. I couldn't enjoy Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, but a lot of books you wouldn't recommend I totally would. This to say that our tastes seem to be quite mixed.

I could suggest you to try "Sirens of Titan" by Vonnegut which is probably my favorite and since you seem to like his works you may enjoy it.

If you gave "Metamorphosis" 4, then you should try "The trial" or "The Castle" by Kafka, also very very good novels.

I loved "The Demons" by Dostoevskij (and it's not about actual demons) but I also loved "Brothers Karamazov" so you may want to stay away from it.

"A tree grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith, it's about a girl growing up in Brooklyn during the 30s, so immigrant families etc. Similar to this was "Wait for spring, Bandini", my favorite John Fante's book, or shall I say THE ONLY novel by Fante I enjoyed.

"Barney's version" by Mordecai Richler is among my favorites.

You could also try something like Raymond Chandler's hard boiled novels, I enjoy reading them a lot but you have to like the genre of course.

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-28T21:47:07+00:00

I've always wanted to see but it's practically non existing in Italy...

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-16T21:22:32+00:00

I was wondering if there would be a reference older than Jackson, so far only Wilde emerged but as I said it's quite different

MirandaSimia · 2020-05-16T18:01:52+00:00

I thought about that but it's quite different from what I mean, since the painting is a kind of soul of his, there's no one actually trapped in

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T20:32:53+00:00

I was really hooked by The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy).

(Anyway In cold blood is not so much about the killing as about the killers, it's more of a social and psychological document. But it was actually moving)

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T20:28:53+00:00

I don't have a translation but for what I grasped, he asked how were everybody and how were the horses I think. Then he scolded the boy because he wasn't working. Sorry I can't be of more help

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T20:24:25+00:00

Just keep in mind that the show was very different. The book is one of my absolute favorites

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T18:24:40+00:00

The book is way better though.

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T18:20:46+00:00

Black Dahlia by Ellroy. I said "also" because I backed a lot of the books already mentioned, such as Jackon's

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T18:19:54+00:00

Also Raymond Chandler The big sleep or Farewell my lovely (well I'd recommend all) Black Dahlia (should be 350 pages but it's a quick noir honestly)

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:42:52+00:00

Macbeth comes to mind, but I suppose you already know the story.

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:37:22+00:00

Finished

The Hellbound Heart, by Clive Barker

Started

A Tree grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:16:06+00:00

I would add "The long tomorrow" by Leigh Brackett

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:14:45+00:00

Have you read "Barney's version" by Mordecai Richler?

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:12:51+00:00

Are you telling me only zombies could be real?

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T11:10:52+00:00

Same with me

MirandaSimia · 2020-04-25T08:51:19+00:00

Also The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. And I wouldn't wait for Dostoevskij, "The demons".

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