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cr: love in the time of cholera by marquez
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ask me about donating your kidney (no, not to me, I’m all good, thanks!)
Love in the time of Co okera is an absolute banger and i feel like a dumb dumb for sitting on it for so long. Savoring every last page.
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Love in the time of Co okera is an absolute banger and i feel like a dumb dumb for sitting on it for so long. Savoring every last page.
Never came around on blood meridian. I liked it a bit better before the end, but that shiz is jot for me.
Love in the time of cholera IS. Shiz nabbed me in the first 10 pages i’m all sold out on this feller.
Love in the time of cholera IS. Shiz nabbed me in the first 10 pages i’m all sold out on this feller.
December 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Never came around on blood meridian. I liked it a bit better before the end, but that shiz is jot for me.
Love in the time of cholera IS. Shiz nabbed me in the first 10 pages i’m all sold out on this feller.
Love in the time of cholera IS. Shiz nabbed me in the first 10 pages i’m all sold out on this feller.
Now more than halfway through blood meridian and it feels like a damn slog, i am barely interested at all. The prose is curious, it’s my first mccarthy, but thus far i do not see anything that has brought this book so much attention. I am not invested in any of it. Idc how masterful the setting
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Now more than halfway through blood meridian and it feels like a damn slog, i am barely interested at all. The prose is curious, it’s my first mccarthy, but thus far i do not see anything that has brought this book so much attention. I am not invested in any of it. Idc how masterful the setting
Finished and enjoyed Mystic River. Thought it was a much better book than movie.
Remember feeling uninterested when i saw the movie in like 2003 or whenever it came out, rewatched it after finishing book, felt the same way. Portions were tight with suspense, but the sum came up short.
Remember feeling uninterested when i saw the movie in like 2003 or whenever it came out, rewatched it after finishing book, felt the same way. Portions were tight with suspense, but the sum came up short.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Finished and enjoyed Mystic River. Thought it was a much better book than movie.
Remember feeling uninterested when i saw the movie in like 2003 or whenever it came out, rewatched it after finishing book, felt the same way. Portions were tight with suspense, but the sum came up short.
Remember feeling uninterested when i saw the movie in like 2003 or whenever it came out, rewatched it after finishing book, felt the same way. Portions were tight with suspense, but the sum came up short.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Alright i flipped on then back off again on Sabbath’s Theater. It felt like the wrong book, then made me laugh out loud a few times and I decided I liked it, but then it changed back, felt like wrong book at wrong time again. Not unhappy i read it, and i would like some more roth, i think.
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alright i flipped on then back off again on Sabbath’s Theater. It felt like the wrong book, then made me laugh out loud a few times and I decided I liked it, but then it changed back, felt like wrong book at wrong time again. Not unhappy i read it, and i would like some more roth, i think.
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This is what Republicans voted for?
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is what Republicans voted for?
I think in this mode pretty often:
Will this be a paragraph, a page, or a chapter in the Post 9/11 USA history course. Will the course be popular? Amongst who? When will they be engrossed reading about this period? Easy to see how disorienting it will be.
Will this be a paragraph, a page, or a chapter in the Post 9/11 USA history course. Will the course be popular? Amongst who? When will they be engrossed reading about this period? Easy to see how disorienting it will be.
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I think in this mode pretty often:
Will this be a paragraph, a page, or a chapter in the Post 9/11 USA history course. Will the course be popular? Amongst who? When will they be engrossed reading about this period? Easy to see how disorienting it will be.
Will this be a paragraph, a page, or a chapter in the Post 9/11 USA history course. Will the course be popular? Amongst who? When will they be engrossed reading about this period? Easy to see how disorienting it will be.
I went with Sabbath’s Theater and afraid the timing is off - reads like a book i might have devoured at another time but now plumbing the depths of depravity is not exactly my jam.
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I went with Sabbath’s Theater and afraid the timing is off - reads like a book i might have devoured at another time but now plumbing the depths of depravity is not exactly my jam.
I loved
Lush Life by Richard Price
I have added some of his other titles to my reading list.
Shortly will start Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
Or
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Or
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Feel free to weigh in and tell me what to read next!
#books
Lush Life by Richard Price
I have added some of his other titles to my reading list.
Shortly will start Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
Or
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Or
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Feel free to weigh in and tell me what to read next!
#books
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I loved
Lush Life by Richard Price
I have added some of his other titles to my reading list.
Shortly will start Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
Or
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Or
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Feel free to weigh in and tell me what to read next!
#books
Lush Life by Richard Price
I have added some of his other titles to my reading list.
Shortly will start Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
Or
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Or
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Feel free to weigh in and tell me what to read next!
#books
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Me, being dragged away with my pants around my ankles and a solitary turd fumbling out of my dumb ass: I actually wrote a really good post before this
September 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Me, being dragged away with my pants around my ankles and a solitary turd fumbling out of my dumb ass: I actually wrote a really good post before this
Subtly downgrade a band:
zinc zeppelin
zinc zeppelin
Subtly downgrade a band:
Green Hour
Green Hour
Subtly downgrade a band
Cabinet Funkadelic
Cabinet Funkadelic
September 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Subtly downgrade a band:
zinc zeppelin
zinc zeppelin
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sometimes when I need really need motivation to work I look at picture of my gf and daughter to remind myself I do all this with the goal of one day having 9hrs uninterrupted gaming time away from them
August 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
sometimes when I need really need motivation to work I look at picture of my gf and daughter to remind myself I do all this with the goal of one day having 9hrs uninterrupted gaming time away from them
Just doing my bit to increase post volume!
I like booke.
I really loved the Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I’ve barely started Creation by Gote Vidal but its shaping up to be a real banger.
I think Manhattan Transfer by John Dod Passos is next.
Lmk if you’ve read any of them!
#books
I like booke.
I really loved the Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I’ve barely started Creation by Gote Vidal but its shaping up to be a real banger.
I think Manhattan Transfer by John Dod Passos is next.
Lmk if you’ve read any of them!
#books
August 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just doing my bit to increase post volume!
I like booke.
I really loved the Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I’ve barely started Creation by Gote Vidal but its shaping up to be a real banger.
I think Manhattan Transfer by John Dod Passos is next.
Lmk if you’ve read any of them!
#books
I like booke.
I really loved the Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I’ve barely started Creation by Gote Vidal but its shaping up to be a real banger.
I think Manhattan Transfer by John Dod Passos is next.
Lmk if you’ve read any of them!
#books
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From this month's edition of The Onion.
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do you want to see something so so beautiful
December 24, 2023 at 3:40 AM
do you want to see something so so beautiful
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I'd be upset but for many facts....America no longer exists. There is no Congress holding the president in check. There is no supreme court adhering to justice. There is no electorate that has the mental capacity to understand how American government is supposed to work.
Spare me your 4th of July
Spare me your 4th of July
June 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'd be upset but for many facts....America no longer exists. There is no Congress holding the president in check. There is no supreme court adhering to justice. There is no electorate that has the mental capacity to understand how American government is supposed to work.
Spare me your 4th of July
Spare me your 4th of July
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If you stand with immigrants and the humane due process they deserve, please consider using the hashtag #OnYourSide to show your support.
We thank all Americans who reject the vile treatment of any human being.
#OnYourSide
We thank all Americans who reject the vile treatment of any human being.
#OnYourSide
May 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you stand with immigrants and the humane due process they deserve, please consider using the hashtag #OnYourSide to show your support.
We thank all Americans who reject the vile treatment of any human being.
#OnYourSide
We thank all Americans who reject the vile treatment of any human being.
#OnYourSide
Passed halfway point of The Name of the Rose and THIS is the right book at the right time. What fun!
April 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Passed halfway point of The Name of the Rose and THIS is the right book at the right time. What fun!
Wow, ok, so an american dream did finally become mildly more interesting in the last 30 pages, a little too late to rescue me, but still better than nothing.
I think expect if i had been taking notes and asking questions there would have been a much neater package for me at the end but since i…
I think expect if i had been taking notes and asking questions there would have been a much neater package for me at the end but since i…
April 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Wow, ok, so an american dream did finally become mildly more interesting in the last 30 pages, a little too late to rescue me, but still better than nothing.
I think expect if i had been taking notes and asking questions there would have been a much neater package for me at the end but since i…
I think expect if i had been taking notes and asking questions there would have been a much neater package for me at the end but since i…
Why am I on bsky?
Behold!
Behold!
Okay so my post-Conclave googling re: papal names led me to discover Pope Benedict IX, the only pope to be elected THREE times. How does one end up being elected pope not once, not twice, but thrice? I'm glad you asked.
Pope Clap Clap GIF
ALT: Pope Clap Clap GIF
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April 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Why am I on bsky?
Behold!
Behold!
Not enjoying An American Dream by Norman Mailer. I have read a couple of knock-outs of his, and a few dull, overwritten clunkers. Afraid this is another clunker.
I may have met it where it lives at another time, at another age, but I don’t know when that would have been.
I may have met it where it lives at another time, at another age, but I don’t know when that would have been.
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Not enjoying An American Dream by Norman Mailer. I have read a couple of knock-outs of his, and a few dull, overwritten clunkers. Afraid this is another clunker.
I may have met it where it lives at another time, at another age, but I don’t know when that would have been.
I may have met it where it lives at another time, at another age, but I don’t know when that would have been.