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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by Nemo Ramjet
4.0
Absolutely terrifying!!
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
4.0
This was different. I brought the next two books from my local used book store and I'm definitely continuing the trilogy this year!
For so it is among those who shed lives every few years: they keep their deflated interior causeways, hold them running parallel with their current useable ones; ghost arteries, sleeping shrunken next to those that pump life. Hushed lymphatics, like quiet ivy alongside the speeding juice of now. Nerve trees like bone coral, hugging the whisper of bellowing communications.
Brian Catling, The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy, #1)
For so it is among those who shed lives every few years: they keep their deflated interior causeways, hold them running parallel with their current useable ones; ghost arteries, sleeping shrunken next to those that pump life. Hushed lymphatics, like quiet ivy alongside the speeding juice of now. Nerve trees like bone coral, hugging the whisper of bellowing communications.
Brian Catling, The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy, #1)
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
3.0
A very strong 3.8
I feel like this will be one of my all time favorites after reading it again. I am a Hesse Stan!
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
I feel like this will be one of my all time favorites after reading it again. I am a Hesse Stan!
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Demian by Hermann Hesse
4.0
Can I be a "stan" after reading only one book by an author? This was like honey on my tongue.
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Hermann Hesse,
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Hermann Hesse,
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
4.0
(Although animal crossing took over my life for a bit while I was getting through this book) I loved it. Kundera is just a comfort read for me. The hitchhiking game was my favorite among the stories. Heartbreaking.
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
The Cloven by Brian Catling
4.0
I did it. What a wild, and Freaky ride. If you're looking for answers and mysteries to be 100% solved in this last installment...nope... not gonna happen. you just have to go with the flow. Some things are left vague, some things are explained, However ultimately this was a pretty good conclusion.
....But why ants? whats is with the ants!!!!?
....But why ants? whats is with the ants!!!!?