| Foopy Net Book Club[message #456] |
Sat, 21 February 2026 01:59  |
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Hai!!!! Recently I've been making it a point to read a lot more actively, will be posting about what I read in here when I have time to make longer posts. If you're reading this, I encourage you to read too! Books are pretty awesome... And post about them, or ones you've already read and want to nerd about it.
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| Re: Foopy Net Book Club[message #472 is a reply to message #464] |
Sat, 21 February 2026 10:40  |
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I love books. I'm always reading something. this month for example I've been reading some japanese books, mainly I'd like to mention sayaka murata (convenience woman and earthlings, both great!) and a volume of edogawa rampo's short stories. you could say I'm a bit of a weeb hehe
sayaka murata is a contemporary writer who deals with the feeling of otherness in current society, I particularly resonate with the feeling of not feeling human in earthlings; they are quirky novels but I'm unsure why they are often described as "funny", they are sort of horrifying XD
rampo's short stories were great too, I kind of knew the human chair from junji ito's manga version XD but I enjoyed this original version more! you can very clearly see the influence of poe's creepy tales on it, with the MC's disturbing monomania; mirror hell is already basically junji ito, also about monomania (the guy loves mirrors) but full of increasingly bizarre examples of it, kinda like the first chapter of uzumaki, I don't think this is really a high point of the book though; what is a high point is caterpillar, a haunting story that I've seen decribed as "ero-guro", not for the faint of heart but I recommend it to anyone that can stand it >:3 most of the other short stories are pretty interesting mystery tales (as in, about crimes), an unifying theme being "the perfect crime"; it seems rampo was the founder of the japanese mystery genre. the more you know!
Quote:Couple weeks ago I read the golem by Gustav meyrink. It's a trippy little book that feels like you're picking up several mental disorders. Quite denpa.
the golem is awesome! I think it's at its best during the first half or so when you really can't tell what's going on exactly, afterwards it gets comparatively more straightforward and it loses a bit of the charm I think, still cool though, especially the ending! it's on my list of books to recommend to others :3 made me want to pick up tarot too!
Quote:i recently finished reading snow crash (1992) by neal stephenson.
didn't know this one, honestly scifi is a weak point of mine 
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A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. (...) Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.Report message to a moderator
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| Re: Foopy Net Book Club[message #489 is a reply to message #457] |
Sat, 21 February 2026 14:57 |
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This sounds like something I'd be into honestly, I'm a big sucker for Sci-Fi. School made us read Fahrenheit 451, that one is pretty gas I like it a lot, definitely one of my favorites of the ones we were assigned
Speaking of, recently I finished one Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro. Bit of a newer release.
It's a bit less fun than your synopsis of snow crash lol, but it has a very nice take on the "robotic companionship" trope commonly found in other Sci-Fi works, I love that the MC, an "Artificial Friend" is more of a stand-in for what it means to be an aging parent, the Mother is just such a tragic character too
I think it does the whole "MC is a robot" thing a little TOO well honestly, the narration is noticeably dry a lot and you kind of need to think about the context not presented to really get the characterization out of it
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| Re: Foopy Net Book Club[message #501 is a reply to message #489] |
Sat, 21 February 2026 17:59 |
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i feel like such a poser sobb, ive been reading the king in yellow (having eng as a 2nd language is interesting when the book is 130yrs old) n ive enjoyed it a lot so far, about 40% thru rn :3
its really well written imo + the fact tht its separated into stories workrs rlly well i think
also have house of leaves in the queue !! + got tomie and spiral as a gift so i shld read those after as well but im a book noob :p
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