Paprika | 
#FoodandLit July Hungary ??
I made chicken paprikash with dumplings and it was very good! Super comforting and would be perfect in the fall or winter and not when it's 100° but hey still a tasty meal
pickYou ever read a book that starts weird, gets weirder and just keeps leaning into it until every other page is left with you saying quietly to yourself "what the f"?
Paprika is that book for me. It starts with the theft of a device that enables a user to enter someone else's dreams and actively change them, and it ends with a dizzying blend of reality and dream, of "real" and "not real". Great sci-fi thriller.
I'm about a quarter of the way into this book, which was billed as a sci-fi dream detective story that also has an anime I can watch later. Right now it's a little bit dragging on so I switched out for one of my other books (I have about 4-5 going at the same time usually)
Round 35 of the #tenatatime #tbr project. Too bad I seem to keep adding more books than I‘m reading! Lol.
so-soPrim perfect psychologist Atsuko Chiba lives a double life as the vibrant “dream detective” Paprika who can diagnose and cure mental illness by entering the dreams of her patients. When the technology that allows this falls into the wrong hands (a militant Catholic gay sex cult) nightmares begin to invade the waking world.
One of the rare instances where the movie is much much better. Skip the book. Watch Satoshi Kon‘s brilliant film.
“...then a gigantic Buddha tens of meters tall appeared in the garden in front of the Institute. With the merciful compassion of the enlightened one, it started to trample down the media personnel who came tumbling out of the Institute buildings.”
Yesterday I complained that this book was boring. Turns out that, as you near the end, it becomes decidedly less so.
#GRRRROARRRRRGGGGHHHH
I‘ve watched the movie based on this book (a film best described as watching Inception on one screen and Speed Racer on another simultaneously while eating a handful of Pixy Stix laced with acid) 3 or 4 times so I had certain expectations going in.
I did not expect it to be boring though. Surprise! So much office politics!
I also did not expect the villains to be part of a militant Catholic gay sex cult.
Hey, I‘m #starting this on #BookToMovie day! Neat!
40 pages in and the book is a bit dry, nowhere near the unhinged kaleidoscope of crazy that is Satoshi Kon‘s brilliant movie.
#ReadingResolutions
If Paprika is 1/3 as crazy as Satoshi Kon's movie then it is going to be INSANE. #candycolouredcovers #feistyfeb Tossed in my Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel because of Mendl's candy in the movie.
bailedOnly made it 50 pages into this one. Cool concept, maybe, bad prose (translation error?), weird sexism and definite biased male perspective. I looked up reviews and most of them agree, plus there's a really gross triggering scene later on that's like rape fantasy. No thanks.
Please tell me this was deeply lost in translation 🙈
Connie, saw this at The Strand this weekend, said its for the Murakami lover, so thought of you. BTW, if you can read the small type -- his previous book has a interesting title, "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno". :)
