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Holes by Louis Sachar
5.0
This has a lot of shitty memories attached to it for me. It seems like this book and movie comes into my life when the worst things are happening. But it is probably the best redemption story I’ve ever read. Every child should read this. It is very similar to the movie but it just has those few extra scenes that really make a difference.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5.0
I got an A on a paper my senior year about this book. I don’t know how. I truly didn’t comprehend it at all. I just remember a lot of goddamns and he’s always fucking complaining. But… that’s life right? It definitely isn’t for everyone and it will not inspire anyone to commit murder unless they already have proclivities to commit murder and then it’s literally just a coincidence.
There are dark themes explored in a very short and pretty toxic kind of way I think? I don’t really remember. I just remember even in school I remember closing the book and just saying “poor thing”.
There are dark themes explored in a very short and pretty toxic kind of way I think? I don’t really remember. I just remember even in school I remember closing the book and just saying “poor thing”.
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
4.0
This one is about the elite-est elite and does have a quite stereotypically racist character that could trigger people though knowing the context might explain why it is so terrible and necessary. I remember being vividly so terrified and worried at the elevator bit. I don’t remember much else than that. But it’s solid.
The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
4.0
Good lord this one is the embodiment of “it takes a village”. It shows the absolute injustice of the judicial system. How hard it is to sway a majority. How the best laid plans can go array. It felt like the most adult of the books to me. The one that fully did not register at all as anything but more than the same kids being on the run from the same people but especially with the 2024 election and the executive orders that have followed, it hits so different.
The Talisman by Peter Straub, Stephen King
5.0
Read this in jail and I don’t mind the memories of it. There were two chapters missing and it came in 4 pieces.
This book is insane. If you think you know what is going on, you absolutely do not. There is no way you can follow this and predict what is happening. It’s the book Lucas was reading to Max after season 4 of stranger things and I am pretty sure of which elements will be used. It is well worth the read.
There are the typical King warnings: child abuse, child labor, underage drinking, drugs, sex, sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, abandonment, etc. That being said, I don’t know if this is before or after the coke days or if Straub made all of it make more sense but this is quite a fantastical story but it feels the most grounded of King’s works that I have read. It felt like there weren’t a lot of unnecessary tangents that did nothing for the story. Each extreme element played into the next or one in the future.
In ‘It’ it felt like most of those one off weird and extreme scenes were entirely one night of 4 AM typing. I would have hated to have to edit those books back then. This one did not feel like that to me at any point.
This book is insane. If you think you know what is going on, you absolutely do not. There is no way you can follow this and predict what is happening. It’s the book Lucas was reading to Max after season 4 of stranger things and I am pretty sure of which elements will be used. It is well worth the read.
There are the typical King warnings: child abuse, child labor, underage drinking, drugs, sex, sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, abandonment, etc. That being said, I don’t know if this is before or after the coke days or if Straub made all of it make more sense but this is quite a fantastical story but it feels the most grounded of King’s works that I have read. It felt like there weren’t a lot of unnecessary tangents that did nothing for the story. Each extreme element played into the next or one in the future.
In ‘It’ it felt like most of those one off weird and extreme scenes were entirely one night of 4 AM typing. I would have hated to have to edit those books back then. This one did not feel like that to me at any point.