harith (ris)

I WAS SOBER BUT NOW IM DRUNK AGAAAAINN

The recent movie adaptation of Dune introduced me to the franchise, I was totally mesmerized by the story’s intricateness and complexity. It led to me getting the Dune books. I finally finished reading this and it was hell of a ride. 500+ pages of lore. The book initially slaps some aliens words like “Bene Gesserit”, “Kwisatz Haderach”, “Gom Jabbar”, “Kul Wahad” into your face in the first pages of the book. Don’t worry because all of them will make sense when you get further into the story. Masterpieces can have flaws and Dune is a part of them, the dialogue is its major problem. Some scenes are unnecessary long so I understand that movie adaptations are forced to cut down the story length. Frank Herbert’s works were ahead of their time and no other sci-fi stories are capable of reaching Dune’s world-building. Overall I’d give this book a 9/10. This book can be slightly difficult to read and I somewhat recommended amateur English speakers to read it since it uses lots of big words and metaphors for them to learn

I've started a collection of Haruki Murakami's novels and this was the first book I read. I'd say it's 'decent' and the plot is very simple. My expectations were a bit high because judging by the title and cover I anticipated the story to be more 'mysterious' and gritty like a hard-boiled detective story. I feel like some plot points of the book are left unanswered or ambiguous. (e.g: what was the actual reason for why did 'he' beat 'her' up, who was the man in that TV, etc). I wish the book was longer and more elaborate, though it made a nice impression on me and I love the author's poetic way of storytelling. I'm thrilled to read more of Murakami's novels and I have 2 more books to go through. The dialogue is definitely one of my favorite aspects of the story and it keeps me hooked. After Dark is a beautiful, aesthetically-pleasing story that could've been better with an extended plot and if not for the lackluster plot. I recommend this novel to people who're looking for a short-but-good vintage story.

Everything about this book is beautiful—including the peach scene, yes. It’s got meaning to it. Out of all the romance novels, this book stands out not because it has LGBTQ relationship but the connection between Elio and Oliver. They’ve never directly said “I love you” to each other, “Call Me By Your Name” is their own way of saying it The story is heartbreaking to read/watch. Their affair would’ve worked but not everything is permanent and not all relationships are meant to be. It feels like these characters are real and I feel very attached to them. The movie adaptation respects the book, some scenes were omitted probably because they aren’t an essential of the plot. Between the two, I prefer the movie’s ending because it’s just perfect. It isn’t necessary to know how Oliver’s doing after the 9-15 years time skip. The movie’s ending is stronger and tells us no matter how much pain we’re in, life progresses as normal. The book’s ending is fine in its own way I suppose, it was a little long and unsatisfactory for me. But it’s relieving to have more content of the two. I wish I can erase my memories and read thru this again. I was never into romance genre in the first place, but this book got me into it. I love it.