ITT: Books you thought were complete memes but turned out to be a good read.
>>8411437
Pretty sad, wasn''t?
What did you make of Strugatsky bros comparing artifacts of western influence to the alien artifacts of the Zone?
I don't think the translation carries the last part very well either: supposedly in Russian Red says "free" like a fishmonger shouting out prices, and not "free" as in "liberty".
I thought that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would just be some quirky, hipster, Wes-Anderson-tier bullshit but it turned out to be pretty clever and original.