Finna do a little review on books i have read since the beginning of this year methinks:
Albert Camus - The plague: pretty kino book about existentialism and plague and shit like that, it kinda reminded me of Texhnolyze the anime and Pathologic the videogame for obvious reasons to people who are acquainted with both of those works. Although i think The Stranger is still his better work, Plague was way more bleak and hopeless imo.
Jean Raspail - Camp of saints: georgedish kino which managed to predict the jeet uprising 60 or so years before it happened, the prose was okay too although the characters werent really that interesting i think, they werent badly written either.
The cult of the black cube: a short little book outlining the history of Saturn worshipping with a couple of rituals thrown in, felt kinda new age-y cuz the author combined several different gods into one but otherwise pretty trad on other points.
Isabella Panfido - Venice Noir: A collection of short stories about different islands of Venice, it wasnt offensively bad but i hardly remember anything about it, the prose was a bit purplish and clumsy too.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice: Now heres a real Venetian kino with enough antisemitism added into the mix to base a 4th reich on this little play. As far as plays go its not my favourite, not even among brother's 'Spearean ones, but the parts where the noble lady made her wooers undergo a trial for her hand was pretty funny. Shylock was pretty cool too.
Jack Vance - Dying Earth trilogy (theres 4 books in it but i didnt read the last one): Pretty funny dark (post-apocalyptic) fantasy books, first one is a collection of (largely) unconnected short stories, the next 2 are united by having a single protagonist, a rogue and conman named Cugel, he was pretty charismatic and amoral antihero which i liked i think.
Michel Houellebecq - Submission: a novel about France electing a muslim president and becoming a caliphate also with some commentary on Huysmans, its a bit like camp of saints but less apocalyptic and makes frighteningly more sense. The prose was nice too although i didnt really care for descriptions of main character having sex with various women throughout the book, but as i was told its a staple of the author.
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