After Dark
by Jayne Ann Krentz · first published 2000
100% recommend
LIfe is tough enough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed Para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. she has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening.Take the dead body that she discovered in one of the sarcophagus exhibits. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London, is one of the most dangerous men in the city isn't helping matters either. And that's just today's list of setbacks. Here in
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…bad writing and TERRIBLE female characters, but the story is extremely engrossing anyway and some of the ideas are really original (the Cthaeh!). Catch-22 was an amazing read as well. Watership Down, After Dark, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and Blood Meridian all dazzled me. Oh, and The Sandman, Watchmen, Maus, and Persepolis for graphic novels. For short…
on “Ask HN: What are some must read books?” ↗Doesn't seem hipsterish at all to me. FWIW, I wouldn't really say that any book in 2014 changed my life, but... if I had to name my favorite book of 2014 there's a good chance that I'd pick After Dark by Murakami. It was my first Murakami and I thought it was very good. Murakami rocks.
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗…mentioned by a lot of "literary" types, and assumed his work was probably snotty, pretentious "pat yourself on the back" stuff, and so put off reading anything by him for quite some time. And then I read After Dark and I was hooked. I've still only read two of his works (the other being Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki) but I'd now mention Murakami as one of my favorite authors. I resisted reading the Harry Potter books…
on “On the Pleasures of Not Reading” ↗…one book exactly changed my life, but a handfull of titles do stand out in my mind. Zero To One by Peter Thiel The Art Of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil After Dark by Haruki Murakami
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗Interesting. I had exactly the opposite experience with my first Murakami. I was at Barnes & Noble one Sunday evening, grabbed one of his titles (After Dark) off the shelf, intending to flip through a few pages; and next thing you know the store is about to close and I'm halfway through the book. I bought the copy, drove home and finished reading it that…
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗Goldfinch is one of my favorites, so let me chime in as I’ve read during serious depression and understand the struggle. - tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow - 1Q84 - After Dark - secret history (author of goldfinch) - never let me go (bit sad-ish) Note: I explicitly filtered my reads to be things I enjoyed during depressive states. Lots of other books I read during that period…
on “Ask HN: What books have you found understandable during serious depression?” ↗1Q84 is one of the ones I haven't read personally, so it's hard to say. I can just comment that all of the other Murakami works I've read really "hooked" me right from the beginning. After Dark was my first and that was pretty much a "I sat down to 'read a few pages' to see if I wanted to read the book or not, and when I looked up I was 2/3rds of the way done" experience.
on “List of books that will induce a mindfuck” ↗