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26/52. Steven L. Peck - A Short Stay In Hell. Drags a little in the middle but has good world-building and dense foreshadowing which warrants a second read.

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26/52. Steven L. Peck - A Short Stay In Hell. Drags a little in the middle but has good world-building and dense foreshadowing which warrants a second read.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 15 hours ago

▲ 22 r/52book

25/52. Franz Kafka - The Castle. Third read, still an agonizing, unfinished slog that mirrors the nonsensical bureaucracy it depicts.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 8 days ago

▲ 25 r/52book

24/52. Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions. Another reread that grow more profound with time. Still somewhat feel more like solving an academic puzzle than connecting with a human story.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 14 days ago

▲ 12 r/52book

23/52. Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto. The first Gothic novel of its kind in spite of its melodramatic plot and campy dialogue.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 25 days ago

22/52. Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad. Highly imaginative with a unique approach to absurd steampunk tech going wrong, and even if the dry, paper-like style gets a bit boring, the sharp satirical gems make it totally worth it.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 30 days ago

▲ 10 r/52book

20/52. Hermann Hesse — Strange News from Another Planet. A nice collection of dreamlike pacifist fables. Feels somewhat prophetic in parts.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 1 month ago

▲ 64 r/52book

19/52. David Grann - The Wager. Meticulously researched though somewhat at the expense of narrative momentum, felt like it wasn’t sure if it wanted to be a harrowing survival epic or a dense courtroom procedural.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 2 months ago

18/52. Émile Zola - The Earth. Unrelenting in its visceral bleakness, I found a lot of it bogged down by confusing narrative shifts, excessive backstories, and heavy-handed political tangents that constantly disrupt the story's flow.

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 2 months ago

u/IntoTheAbsurd — 2 months ago