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#black paradox

towercitydrive
@towercitydrive
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Black Paradox by Junji Ito

read: 2024-08-05 through 2023-08-05
2024-08-12

what a nice one! i think its the first junji ito full-length i read that doesn't involve some sort of world-ending calamity, some massive impossible disaster, but instead smaller and slower moving things, and atop that more character driven. i think ito's a real like... if you let me use my prose-writer's terms he's a real short stories guy, who even in his longer works just drops short story after short story into the main text, endlessly extractable little bits. never, though, does that work better than it does here, where allowing the characters to, more than ever, take the lead in the shape of the thing, each little diversion into self-contained sections really feels natural, inevitable, correct. the parts are truly there within the whole

also: god how many weird meme images online actually come from junji ito. i had no clue. i've seen our wonderful robot stomach friend from this one online several times

MayaGay
@MayaGay

BOOKS I READ THIS MONTH (OCTOBER EDITION)

Hey, why not right?

Joyland - Stephen King
I gotta admit, I thought this was going to be more of a hardboiled detective novel then it actually was. Softboiled. I am not really the biggest fan of King when he goes sentimental. I prefer him in his William Castle mode, a bright eyed huckster spinning EC Comic style horrors. So I had really high hopes here, cause the setting and the material seemed ripe for a Carnival of Souls type horror thriller. But in actuality it is more like Adventureland crossed with his usual psychic moppets. That being said there is a lot to like. I wish he had actually gone harder on the older protagonist remembering his halcyon days, cause that was easily the strongest part of the novel. A mixed bag, but like usual it goes down like candy.

The Yiddish Policeman's Ball - Michael Chabon
I read The Adventures of Kavilier and Clay last month and loved it, but I only got it out of the library cause I had originally wanted to read this. Set in an alt history where the Israeli government was overthrown in the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, leading to the center of the Jewish diaspora being an Alaskan enclave that was formed post WW2 as a temporary Hong Kong styled outpost for refugees, set to revert back to the United States during the book's events, the book is a Raymond Chandler styled detective story, involving the murder of a messianic figure and the cop who is piecing together the conspiratorial tapestry as his world falls apart. Sickenly relevant again with the Palestinian massacre happening in the world right now. Found it excellent, even when it made me feel sick!