I just read it in a day, in one sitting. I loved it. I got teary eyed and upset at things that I don't even really understand. Like wow. I kinda feel like someone scooped my guts out. I feel like I'll never feel this way again and will only feel this way from now on. This book goes to the top of the genre for me. It's the best of all it's peers lMO.
I had never heard of it before and only seen it suggested in this subreddit multiple times. Maybe there's just like one or two of you who comment suggesting it all the time. I don't know. But THANK YOU THANK YOU. It's just cuz of you all that I picked it up. And it's been forever since a book made me feel anything like this.
Now…. Any more suggestions???? 😀
by Poopsie_Daisies
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I Who Have Never Known Men is a goddamn experience, really amazing stuff, so glad it’s experienced a renaissance thanks to social media.
It’s a different vibe, but A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck was a similar internet recommended gem for me. Essentially, “hell” is an infinite library in which the damned must find the book containing their own life story. Very existential and really hammers home the idea of infinity in a very short time.
Loved that book, glad you enjoyed it too. Some others you might like:
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
*seconding A Short Stay in Hell
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Absolutely loved it.
I don’t have a book suggestion, but I’ve heard this feeling referred to as a “book hangover” and wanted to share that term.
Can’t wait to dive in my library just released it to me and it’s loaded on my kindle