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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.5
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.
...und noch ein Küßchen. by Roald Dahl
adventurous
fast-paced
3.0
der erste Band war besser, der schwarze Humor hat oft gefehlt. einige Geschichten waren einfach langweilig.
"Der Soldat" war aber 10/10
"Der Soldat" war aber 10/10
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
dark
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
will watch the movie
Find Me by André Aciman
emotional
slow-paced
3.5
leonardo di caprio would like this
do people really talk like that?
do people really talk like that?