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The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy 2) By: Mark Lawrence​

An obstinate foe has forced Evar to leave the library. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover the book she wrote—one that is the only true threat to the library’s existence—if she's to return to her life.

While Evar's journey leads him outside into a world he's never seen, Livira's path will take her deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.

The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe or lose everything.
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B.E.E binge, update #2:

Finished: Less Than Zero (5/5, holly fuck that book has me in a chokehold), Imperial Bedrooms (5/3, eh... I like it, but just eh), Rules of Attraction (5/4.5) Lunar Park (5/4).

Freshly Finished: American Psycho (5/5, genuinely a great book. You could not find anything in the book what was not put there for a reason) The Informers (5/3.5? I'm still on the fence about this one tbh. I feel like as a kaleidoscope-novle, RoA was waaaay better, but this book has a really different aim too, so it is a bit unfair to put them against each other but still. RoA had a bit more personality, if I can say that).

B.E.E has a really... personal (?) maybe it is not the best to describe his style of writing, but putting it a bit more hars; if you read one book, you pretty much know the vibe/feeling of every B.E.E book. Therefore, if you don't like the minimalist style of Less Than Zero, and/or the general soulnessness of everyone and the Hemingway-like short, objective sentences, you most likely would not like most of his stuff (except American Psycho, the general style of the book is really different from the rest.)

Next up: The Shards (I'm really interested in this one) and Glamorama. (And also non-fiction, if I can find it for a good price: White)
 
The Brothers Karamazov
The Myth of Sisyphus

TMoS is pretty "dense", I think that's the word. I am not used to reading philosophical books so a lot of sentences I have to read twice. And look up the definition of words. I'm on page 50 of 150, hoping things all come together after explaining the terms and comparing to other philosophers.

TBK I picked up to give myself a break from the philosophy. It's a story, with a pretty interesting plot. On about page 50 here as well, of almost 1000.

Haven't read seriously for a long time. Trying to add structure to my days and get away from external influences that guide me in the wrong direction / Television.
 
Madness said:
The Brothers Karamazov
The Myth of Sisyphus

TMoS is pretty "dense", I think that's the word. I am not used to reading philosophical books so a lot of sentences I have to read twice. And look up the definition of words. I'm on page 50 of 150, hoping things all come together after explaining the terms and comparing to other philosophers.

TBK I picked up to give myself a break from the philosophy. It's a story, with a pretty interesting plot. On about page 50 here as well, of almost 1000.

Haven't read seriously for a long time. Trying to add structure to my days and get away from external influences that guide me in the wrong direction / Television.
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It's been a long time since I read Brothers Karamazov but what a great book.
It sure is a time commitment, though. I read it when I was laid up and off work once for an injury. I think it really influenced my thinking, even if I can't actually remember the plot 😉
 
arrall said:
I started that when I was 14.
I found it pretty interesting but never finished it.
How are you finding it?
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Oh yeah? Nice man. Very cool of you to reply here and ask! Hope you are well by the way.

I am balancing my time between the two books, am on page 80 at the moment for TBK. The contrast between the 3 boys' father's attitude toward the Church's elder, and the more significant / meaningful relationships the elder has with the peasant women, is stark. The tension within the family is steadily building. Knowing the general plot, I am sure soon something will pop off very soon. However I can be patient, because the development of the situation is pretty interesting.

The development of the individual characters is well done as well, and there are philosophical concepts woven into the plot as well which is very cool.
 
Just finished reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.....I actually feel profoundly sad now :(
[because of the content of the book itself, not because I've finished it]

EDIT: 3 days later and I still feel super depressed. Probably because I have depression anyway, but I do feel like it triggered something.

EDit #2: 6 days and finally feeling less suicidal...might just be the morphine, though.
 
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izo said:
Hard boiled wonderland by this japanese bloke.
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I got turned onto this after watching an anime called 'Haibane Renmei' which is loosely based on the wonderland setting.

Anyway, Haruki Murakami (aka "this japanese bloke") is now one of my favourite novelists. 'Kafka on the Shore' (fantasy/weird science I guess, difficult to categorise) and 'Norwegian Wood' (romance/drama) were also excellent. I started on 'The Windup Bird Chronicle' but couldn't get into it and would like to try '1Q84' next but I'm a slow reader so the length is intimidating (it's over 1000 pages).

Currently I'm flitting between 'The Fall of House Cabal' by Johnathan L Howard, 'She and her Cat' by Makoto Shinkai and the manga adaptation of 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'.
 
Something bout the Flamethrowers, a good review. My reading still a bit stuck. Reading really needs a good pair of glasses.

But in 'The first evangelie: seen in the light of the old evangelie' from Holland G.J.P.J. 1906.
But super as it seeems to be a pretty critical, like beefing rappers do.
But then Philosphers against 'Christain' experts on the Evangelie. So part of a battle basicly as they mention te others in the intro.

But the actual story that took a lot of time to get to is as it seems rewiring the changes made during tranlations.
Getting back to what it was, and not what all them churches and changers had in mnd, good find, my long gone grandpa.
Its his pencel marks said my grandma. thought it were hers. he died before 50 if i am correct loved him, but hardly remeber much.
 
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