Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear 
. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme.
Last week's thread can be found here
For this week's theme: Worlds to get lost in
Books whose settings are so vividly painted that it's a pleasure just to spend time in them. Maybe it's a particular historical moment brought to life or a fantastical world. Perhaps it's a particular scene or milleu. Whatever the case, even if you wouldn't want to live there in real life, you don't want to come back to reality either.
Optional nerd discussion questions
What techniques does the author use to achieve the verisimilitude of their world? What particular aspects of the setting do you, personally, find so compelling? What is most alien about the setting to your own experience? What is most familiar?
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Han Kang's depiction of Gwang-ju in Human Acts is terrifying, heartbreaking, and painful. Vivid is the right word, her writing style is dripping with the cold weight of agony and despair in an honest manner that forces the reader to insert themselves and feel the pain of the victims of the butcher Chun Do-Hwan. The worst part is that it is reality, if a fictional account of the Gwang-ju massacre.
Been meaning to dive more into fiction, but I can never fully embrace reading for pleasure when there are still books I consider essential to read still in my to-read list.