24 books recommended by Grimes

“I made this Dune fan art pic.twitter.com/eF0lrXVqsH”

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“yeah gonna read it now, the story was so gorgeous”

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“This book scared the shit out of me. I picked it up after watching the film adaptation by Tarkovsky, which is one of my favourite movies. Sometimes I feel like the only explanation for human life is that our planet is a terrible god. I like thinking that planets are living, sentient behemoths that we completely misunderstand. I’m horrified to think what it would be like if such an abstract sentience had no regard for us, or enjoying toying with us. The act of repeatedly killing a doppelganger or a loved one seems so horrific; how could anyone think of something so awful? Whenever people pour cream into coffee in a clear glass, it reminds me of this book, because that’s what I imagine the surface of Solaris to look like.”

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“Read surface detail by iain banks and you’ll never enjoy real battles ever again, only battles as vapors in ice cracks”

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“My daughter is dancing to techno over this copy of the birth of tragedy by nietzsche - what a queen pic.twitter.com/GajRCEVDen”

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“paparazzi followed me 2 a shoot so I tried 2 think what I could do that would yield the most onion-ish possible headline and it worked haha pic.twitter.com/9w8pPwIFAq”

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“I’m not typically interested in poetry, but I discovered The Flowers of Evil in high school as I was just becoming a goth and getting into Trent Reznor – and everyone else was getting into the Beat poets, who I find comparably boring if we’re going to discuss druggy, surrealist poetry. This work is so visceral, filthy and gorgeously written. It feels like a distillation of the opium scenes from Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth, but more abstract and extensively documented. This one poem is just a disgusting, sexual description of a corpse that is permanently burned into my mind.”

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“Some may say this title aged poorly, some may say it adapted fantastically pic.twitter.com/ipb7ko6EzN”

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“For some reason I became enraptured by this book as a teenager. It smelled really amazing and dusty. I think our copy was from the 1940s and the pages would crumble as I turned them. I’ve never been so careful while reading a book, and I think that really endeared it to me. I’m very calmed by methodical descriptions of farming. The images of opium addiction amongst the wealthy Chinese aristocracy, who ‘smoked the flesh off their bones’, always come back to my mind; it’s so decadent and horrifying.”

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“I really relate to the particular type of mental instability that Dostoyevsky describes in pretty much all of his work. A character starts talking, and things start getting out of control and become increasingly animated, intense and disturbing. It reads like an extreme version of how I feel whenever I have to interact with humans. The Idiot is probably my favourite of his works, because I love Nastasya Filipovna, Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchin, Rogozhin... I think a lot of my friends think I’m a bit like Nastasya! Anyway, it’s the most cartoonish and absurd of everything I’ve read by Dostoyevsky, and the best distillation of insanity as a virtue. A Baz Luhrmann-esque treatment of this book would make an incredible film.”

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“If u follow the trail of clues the story will unravel 📚🧚🏻‍♀️💊🧬 pic.twitter.com/1TL36WB4JE”

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“Plato's republic is perfect. Everyone agrees it's amazing, we all have to read it. Yet we refuse to give it a try. The first idea was the best one.”

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“I am half way through this book and it's thus far like my favourite book ever and SHOCKINGLY (this will only matter to ppl who've read the book) - the book was left in my hotel room and is now unfindable and I'm dead cuz I'm on the edge my seat and it anti memed itself”

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“who fears death might literally be my favourite book and now its the next hbo sci fi fantasy show im losing my miiind! congrats @Nnedi 😍😭👁🦇🦅”

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