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Books like Desperation 1996
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Desperation
Books closest to Desperation
The damnation game 1985Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
The Institute 2019Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Survivor in Death 2005Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
The Maidens 2021Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
Something Is Killing the Children Omnibus, Vol. 1 2025Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
The Walking Dead, Vol. 6 2007Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
The Resistance 2008Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
The Mephisto Club 2006Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4 2015Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
City of the Lost 2016Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 10 2016Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 5 2016Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Thinning 2016Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
The Crazies 2010Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Blood-C: The Last Dark 2012Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Games
The Walking Dead Onslaught 2020Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Medal of Honor 2010Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Arizona Sunshine 2016Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Series
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom 2009Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Storm of the Century 1999Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
NOS4A2 2019Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
Albums
- It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot 1998Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
- 7220 2022Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
- Don’t Try This at Home 2023Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
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