I’m looking for books with moments or ideas that hit hard enough that you actually pause and sit with them for a bit
Not necessarily because they’re shocking, but because something about them feels unexpectedly real or thought-provoking
What book did that for you?
by WideVermicelli148
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The Stranger by Camus completely wrecked me in the best way. There’s this part where the main character is just thinking about how absurd it is that we all pretend our daily routines matter when we’re all gonna die anyway, and I literally put the book down and stared at my ceiling for like twenty minutes
Also anything by Ursula K Le Guin does this to me regularly – she has this way of describing social structures that makes you realize how arbitrary so many of our “normal” things actually are. The Dispossessed had me questioning capitalism for weeks after reading it
I keep a little notebook specifically for quotes and thoughts from books that make me pause like that, and those two authors take up way too many pages
The books by Fredrik Backman, the way he tells a story is so amazing, and he injects all these little truths of life that most people don’t even realize or think about, and it makes you stop for a moment and realize he’s exactly right. And it’s something you hadn’t noticed before or thought about and then all of a sudden you’re crying lol. I love his writing.