Considering that there are already a gaming books and literature, and a comics topic in the forum, and that I really want to start reading again, I open this topic just to share what I’m reading (which is almost always non gaming related). Also to see if there’s more people reading varied stuff and sharing their literary interests and whatnot.
I also decided to start this topic after finishing Fight Club (Palahniuk) yesterday. When I was writing as a hobby, I saw the movie and remembered being fascinated at the mystery of how to write a whole story of a dissociated person that is so fast paced and where so many things happen outside the protagonist mind. I don’t tend to repeat media products and when I do, I try to do it the other way around (reading first, movie/game after) but here I deliberately decided to read a book of a movie I saw because the narrative aspect of how to build the story was what fascinated me.
The book itself is written in a frantic pace with barely any perspective of time. Writing it in first person and with very short sentences and short chapters that are barely linked between them (other than by the huge plot that’s happening, of course) also makes it easy to digest. I don’t like the expression “easy to digest” here though because it kind of gives the feeling that the book was endured, although with not much of an effort. No. In this case, the book is a frenzy, a history of time and reality itself bending and getting lost in a head that is a bit more than a head.
And considering that I decided to read the book to learn better how to write or how to express myself better when writing literature (the real literature, not the literature that the science world calls like that), that the aftermath/epilogue had a reflection on the process of writing this book was kind of like a sign, a little hug, a waving on the initial reason and the process itself.
