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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 28m

Massive from Palk, if true.

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not saying JFK definitely staged his own death before hiding in plain sight as horrifying junk food harlequin Ronald Mcdonald, just that if he did the dates check out

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 30m

I wouldn't start with this one, try Crying of Lot 49 or Inherent Vice

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 54m

#fridayreads by Thomas Pynchon 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Woobie @woobiemagnus.bsky.social · 4h

Horrifying junk food harlequin

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not saying JFK definitely staged his own death before hiding in plain sight as horrifying junk food harlequin Ronald Mcdonald, just that if he did the dates check out

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not saying JFK definitely staged his own death before hiding in plain sight as horrifying junk food harlequin Ronald Mcdonald, just that if he did the dates check out

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 16h

One for @wbgooderham.bsky.social - with Thomas Mann going out of copyright at the end of this year, the John E Woods translations of his major novels come to Penguin Classics next March.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 18h

!!!

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19h

Wild scenes in Stockholm

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 22h

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 20h

Is it obviously him?

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not shelling out £0.99 to find out (do they think I'm made of money or something) but from the preview it's probably fair to say he might take a while to find his voice

read.amazon.co.uk/sample/B07D5...

Read a sample: “The Pothunters”

P. G. Wodehouse

read.amazon.co.uk

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

This sounds plausible but no one has read his first book, maybe it's totally different

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

Not accepting this until one of us reads his first novel and checks

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 22h

Can't think of another writer of whom this can be said

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

Reading the new Thomas Pynchon and it's funny how little his voice and preoccupations have shifted since 1963, you could give someone V and then this and I'm sure they'd spot it's the same author

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not saying JFK definitely staged his own death before hiding in plain sight as horrifying junk food harlequin Ronald Mcdonald, just that if he did the dates check out