Yamato
This occasionally physically hurt to read. Any book that illicits such a visceral reaction from me will get my recommendation. Powerful memoir about abusive relationships and the impact it has on you.
What is the monetary value of a life? This is the question that Three Days of Happiness centers around, leading to a rather compelling story. While it is an interesting story that will hit you in the feels, Three Days of Happiness doesn't have anything deep to say about life and is overhyped by the light novel community.
Deserter is a series of manga short stories written early on in Junji Ito's career.
Junji Ito would go on to become one of the most famous and celebrated manga authors of all time, and it's clear why he became a legend from the very start.
While most of the anthology is relatively weak with dull, boring concepts and pretty bad pacing, the entire anthology is thoroughly enjoyable with Junji Ito's
superb artwork. And when Deserter works, it really works, with the titular “Deserter” short story being an all time great.
Some jokes don't land or were lost in translation, but Kizumonogatari still manages to tell a compelling, thought provoking story.
Capitalism will eventually destroy us, and in many aspects already has. Unfortunately, it is harder to imagine the end of capitalism then it is to imagine the end of the world, but maybe we can change that. Capitalist Realism explores these alternatives using words that are too big for my monkey brain to understand.
I have no idea why, reading this book just gives me a massive headache. This hasn't happened with any other book I've read, but DNFed this book for that reason.
The pain of feeling different, of not feeling comfortable in your own body, the bitterness that comes with knowing that society will never accept you, the relief that comes when meeting people that do accept you, the exhilaration of finally finding peace with yourself - Gender Queer captures these emotions incredibly well and is a must read for anyone interested in learning more about gender outside of the traditional gender norms.
Passable, forgettable sapphic romance. Would have a lower score because of the objectively awful main character, but I have a soft spot for LGBT romance.
Extraordinary plot about familial love in between countless unnecessary sex scenes after sex scenes.
The writing style of this book did really good at showing how all the members of the band interpreted an event differently and how misunderstandings stacked up and eventually led to their splitting apart. But, all of these interesting character dynamics are constantly interrupted for constant hookups, a theme that is unfortunately common in Taylor Jenkins Reid's novels.
A weak sequel to a book that didn't need a sequel. There is potentially interesting material with Danny dealing with alcoholism and not wanting to become like his father, but the novel doesn't do this and instead focuses on battles with immortal vampires. (It's not as interesting as it sounds)
A grandiose, cinematic, and ambitious graphic novel - perhaps it falters because of this ambition, but Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale gave it a good fucking shot
This would be critically and commercially panned if it was not part of the Cosmere. Dull, generic, unimaginative fantasy
We are all built of remnants from our ancestors, pieces of us coming from each of them. But maybe we can make the most of that, be better than they could ever be, overcome their weaknesses. This is just one of A Psalm For The Wild Built's ideas, it has many more packed into such a short space. But it all works incredibly well, immersing the reader into this lush, futuristic world and leaving them wishing to spend more time with these characters.
Our Wives Under The Sea is not a love story. It is a story about love. It???s about how beautiful love is, how precious all of the little moments spent together are, how you come to learn your lover???s charming quirks and eccentricities. These romantic asides aren???t built into the story for the romance though: They???re built into the story to juxtapose against the harsh coldness between the lovers only a few months later, because in that time, one of them was supposed to be on an oceanic exploration for a few weeks but returned a few months later a completely changed person. It???s not so much the horror it???s advertised as, but rather the aftermath of horror. Both of the protagonists are pushed to their emotional extremes, but refuse to let go of each other. Our Wives Under The Sea is not a love story, it is a story about how fragile love seems and also about how strong it really is, a portrait of a marriage in the face of tragedy, an ode to the seemingly insignificant moments still remembered years later. In a tight 220 pages, Our Wives Under The Sea is a devastating, powerful novel that remains compulsively readable throughout with exceptionally poetic prose and some truly clever chapter breaks (you???ll know what I mean when you see them).
A fine adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, but the fact that it exists is rather ironic considering the original novel's stance on visual forms of literature. While it does maintain the original core themes of the book, it executes them worse than the original due to the details that truly elevated the original being missing. The art is pretty good, but not good enough to justify the switch in format to a graphic novel.
