The combined effects of haze, unhealthy anime and general despondency
Okay. Thank goodness promos are over. The haze is killing me and I need something to counteract the influence of trashy (but oh so addictive!) anime that I have been overdosing myself on. Manga is starting to hurt my brain because it's turning into a major source of art angst for me
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anyway, my two cents worth!
Dennis Lehanne-- Shutter Island, for a mind-numbing thriller about a psychiatric patient on an island for mental patients. Except,who are the insane ones here?
Read the rest of his novels, Mystic River , for its cold bloody take on friendship and the wolves of the past, and his Kenzie and Genarro series, a detective series where the whodunit element is masterful enough to recommend it. Top it off with an even colder and pessismistic take on the human condition, along with some excellent sex, and it gets better! Warning though: can cause depression, i personally had to stop reading a few times as it got too overwhelming. Although it somehow still manages to retain some CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM hahahaha. If you really dont have time, read Gone Baby Gone, and tell me what you think Kenzie should have done. Although you really should read the rest.
Battle Royale is good too, even if you're reading the manga. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is wonderful as well, one day i MUST see on it stage (hopefully by some good theatre company, otherwise i would be severely disappointed), but well... it nearly made me cry, this play about an ageing salesman and his sons.
Hmm. Read Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, if only for its HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE in sparking off the American Civil War, haha. Still, its a not-bad story about slavery, although not very realistic in its character protrayals. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is an exhilaritingly innocent, thoughtful book about an age-long hunt for Dracula(a summary that does no justice). Although you might find it boring, the books takes its time to build up the tension. In fact, its more in the vein of Gilead, except less philosophical and with more action.
Finally, Oliver Sacks!!!! Get Karen to lend you some of the other Sacks books, and I can lend you An Antrhopologist on Mars(I got it for TWO DOLLARS ONLY. A BARGAIN), and become an amateur psychologist/neurologist! haha.
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neither do i have Death of a Salesman, i borrowed that from High School library.
So, erm,only An Anthropoogist on Mars, then.
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