I remember really not liking the movie and didn’t read the book until much much later.
I thought the book was going to be about a spooky cat or monstrous creatures, and there is that. It’s just such a small part of the book, and it’s great and it was page turner for sure
But the book isn’t about any of that. It’s about grief. The whole book is just sad. Sad in a way that isn’t an intense and powerful but fleeting moment that makes you sob, but a prolonged aching.
I’ve never seen a story really handle grief as well as this one does. I think about this book all the time.
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Babel by RF Kuang
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
*Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk
Fiction or nonfiction preferred?
Fiction:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1984 by George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nonfiction:
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Cows
Pet Sematary.
I remember really not liking the movie and didn’t read the book until much much later.
I thought the book was going to be about a spooky cat or monstrous creatures, and there is that. It’s just such a small part of the book, and it’s great and it was page turner for sure
But the book isn’t about any of that. It’s about grief. The whole book is just sad. Sad in a way that isn’t an intense and powerful but fleeting moment that makes you sob, but a prolonged aching.
I’ve never seen a story really handle grief as well as this one does. I think about this book all the time.