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Tho i hate using chatgpt but i have to agree it sometime make it easy and fast to do some of these stuff. I wanted to make it on my own way but i dont have time to do that. But the word used in the photo are mine. I said to it to make the words unaltered and only to correct any spelling mistake tho.

All My Reviews links.

1. The Fires of Heavens: https://www.reddit.com/r/wheeloftime/s/mNlNxO3o5y

2. 3 body and Dark Forest: https://www.reddit.com/r/Indianbooks/s/wPw3eKd4Jo

3. Death's End: https://www.reddit.com/r/Indianbooks/s/7Q1f0A07it

4. Annihilation: Have yet to Post the Review

5. Piranesi: Have yet to Post the Review.

On the surface these Norwegian novels translated into english have seemingly a story about various people simply living their day to day lives. Knausgaard goes into such extraordinary detail, as you would expect from his writing, that at some point, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

And yet, as you read, you begin to feel that something about the nature of reality itself has cracked. Whether that crack illuminates something or lets the darkness in is for you to decide.

Then, suddenly, a blazing cosmic phenomenon in the form of a bright star appears in the sky, and strange things begin to happen.

But the series isn’t really about what this cosmic phenomenon is. There is hardly any attempt by the characters to unravel its mystery. In fact, the star doesn’t even appear until the very end of the second book and isn’t mentioned in the fourth book at all. These are not spoilers.

What makes The Morning Star so fascinating is the collision between ordinary human lives and cosmic horror. It is about people going about their everyday routines, cooking, drinking, working, thinking, having affairs, worrying, loving, and somehow finding themselves in a reality that no longer feels quite as familiar as it once did.

The fifth book in the series will be released in English on 5 November 2026.

I recently completed reading the book and today I read this news piece on Indian express talking about for a very different reason. Though this book has been in circulation in China for more than 90 years, it's only been now introduced as a mandatory read for school childrens in the 9th grade.

I just completed Murakami's "Norwegian wood". I've been wondering ever since about the relationship between Watanabe and Midori. Starting as just plain friends and classmates getting to know each other in the cafe, they turned out to be friends/couples who share things in an Unfiltered manner expressing what they just feel.

When I was thinking about those 2 people, I was wondering would there be any friends/couples in real life who would be soo Unfiltered and transparent in talking about their thoughts and feelings (without having a second thought what the other person might think about you)??

I felt the relationship between Midori and Watanabe was more free flowing, open and brutally honest, than what he had with Naoko with a touch of sympathy and care.

Did anyone else felt this way about the characters when reading?

The first time I got to know about Algernon Blackwood & listened the audio version of this story was in the year 2022. I was mesmerized by how incredibly well written this whole story is. Before that I only knew about H. P. Lovecraft writing cosmic horror stories like this & this one is nothing short from that top tier of horror literature.

The story follows two friends who are doing a canoe trip in the beautiful Danube river & one afternoon they decide to camp in an empty island around which no sign of humanity can be seen. The camping was just for taking rest of course but they soon realised, especially the narrator soon realised that there is some kind of presence in that island with them which they can't comprehend properly. And that is exactly the kind of horror stories I love to read, the sense of unknown eldritch, the dread that shows up & increases as you continue reading & eventually the characters faces something unexplainable which sums up this story for a perfect one in the cosmic horror genre.

I really really loved how Algernon Blackwood wrote the whole story. I should say that it is very literary & very magnificently well written in that. The way he describes the place, the atmosphere, the sense of something around the characters, it is just something you will not forget after you read the story for one time. Even H. P. Lovecraft himself said that this story is the "finest supernatural tale in all of English literature". And even though I first listened the story in 2022 I still remembered everything about it because I loved it that much & today I read it again from the book "The Wendigo & Other Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood" and published by Wordsworth Classics. After listening that story in 2022 & I also listened & read many other stories written by Algernon Blackwood. In Youtube you will find some of hos stories translated in Bangla in the channel Midnight Horror Station.

If you haven't read the story then I really suggest you to read or listen to it for once. If you love atmospheric horror or cosmic horror, then this one is a must.