Favourite Novels Of All Time? by chrisisall

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Favourite Novels Of All Time?

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Thursday, October 9, 2025 7:26 AM

László Krasznahorkai, Whose Novels Have Been Adapted by Hungarian Auteur Béla Tarr, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/nobel-prize-literatur
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The Forever War- Joe Haldeman

Book Review: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
https://sfreads.substack.com/p/book-review-the-forever-war-by-joe

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Saturday, October 11, 2025 12:27 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

What are the most challenged and banned books? Erie County Public Library names them

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/most-challenged-banned-books-erie-
091208074.html

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 6:02 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

The Mars Trilogy +The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson

A Fire Upon the Deep

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 12:43 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

What Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Thought About The Matrix

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/sci-fi-author-will
iam-gibson-194500544.html

The poetics of Neuromancer

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 6:24 PM

BRENDA

Prince and the Pauper

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Monday, January 5, 2026 9:48 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Altered Carbon: 5 Biggest Book To Show Changes

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Tuesday, January 6, 2026 1:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I read a book in one of my college English classes called "One Thousand Years of Solitude".

A lot of the details and any of the names besides, I believe, Horatio, escape me now, but the general "feeling" of the story has always stayed with me.

A story about change, and of modernization of the world, and how a culture could have lived 1000 years without changing much, only to see it all change on them in the blink of an eye once they were discovered by the "real" world, and absorbed by it.

A romanization of what was, and a resignation to the homogenetic destiny of what will be after the last person alive to remember the Old Ways passes on after the young were all lured in by the promises of the outside world. (It's like HP Lovecraft, but without fish people, elder gods, and frequent references to other human beings as blood sacks... but in some way, it's somehow just as equally horrifying on an existential level. At least to me it was...)

I wanted to look up the writer's name because I didn't want to get it wrong. Gabriel García Márquez. Looks as though he hails from Columbia. If he wasn't writing from his own perspective and life, he certainly has (had?) a very high level of empathy to listen to the tales he was told by his elders who had and to be able to weave the tale he told in that book.

I found it quite an enthralling read at the time I was assigned it, which is saying a lot because it was college homework and I had a lot of partying to do. This book was BIG and it had no problems keeping me out of trouble for a about a week to 10 nights.

Without reading it again and without even a brush up on the details, I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

Looks like Netflix may have made a show about it if you can't stomach reading a book. But I'd probably be equally strong in my argument against watching watching that vs. reading this book. Why watch some committee approved, white college liberal version of this when you can read the book that the Dude from Columbia wrote for you?

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