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Books by Harlan Ellison
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison
· published 1967 · read 2022-08-26
★★★★☆
Read because I can't keep quoting a memorable title without actually having read the book or story, that's just against my ethics. Now I've read it. I'm not a horror person. You should think that the title would warn me off (and hey, it did, for a long time). I did not like this story. I will not re-read it. I don't fucking have to, because it lives inside my brain ever since I read it. I suppose that's what quality horror is like? But man. Man. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.
“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
by Harlan Ellison
· published 1965 · read 2018-07-13
★★★☆☆
This is a tricky one: Repent, Harlequin!, Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison is a metaphor against an over-reglemented world. It's old, and I'm afraid to my eyes it hasn't aged too well. It's got an important message, and the scenario isn't bad either, and the language is poetic, but it didn't capture me at all.