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Just finished - fascinating book. A kind of meta character study with so many layers. Need to re-read soon.

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Next read

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Last read in 2008. Does it hold up? It has original ideas and themes for the time, riffing a bit on 1984 which came out a year prior. I just wish it was longer. I wish it could pad out the relationships and world so the tension doesn't feel forced. Prophetic at times, but missing an ingredient.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished. Love this book. Disturbing as hell - kind of Scottish Psycho

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Frozen pizza mushroom cloud

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Current read

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Current read is an Icelandic epic. Don't know much about this one going into it, aside from the big award he won (in part because of it)

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

A gift from before xmas. A friend / former co-worker is studying in Scotland and snagged this UK edition of Annihilation for me. A complete surprise! I love my read-worn copy of the Southern Reach tril, but now I have to collect these amazing foil editions! @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #annihilation

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Finished yesterday. I still don't like the protagonist, Oscar Wao. He's an obese nerd who wallows in his pathetic-ness, without a character arc that has any redemption. The better book within a book was his mother's story, set in a 40's - 60's Dominican Republic haunted by a brutal dictatorship.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Finished this morning. It grew on me by the end, but lacked some punch I was hoping for. Each story was written in a kind of jilted cadence, with a protagonist who is lonely, unable to connect with others, struggling to find purpose, or suicidal. I wanted the "strange" parts to go further.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

When reading a Korean book, ya need Korean snacks

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Reading "At Night He Lifts Weights." I thought this was a novel because I missed the "stories" tag. So far it's...okay. it moves quick, stories are short, but they're lacking a punch or twist. To compare, read "Cursed Bunny" pre-christmas, which was really memorable. #books #atnightheliftsweights

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments