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s/o to one of the best titles ever
October 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
s/o to one of the best titles ever
Old man's still got it! Goddamn. Probably the most affected I've ever been by the end of one of his novels. Rereading on the lhysical copy incoming. The gumshoe detective shit has never been better. It achieves a density that doesn't much inhibit the experience of reading
October 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Old man's still got it! Goddamn. Probably the most affected I've ever been by the end of one of his novels. Rereading on the lhysical copy incoming. The gumshoe detective shit has never been better. It achieves a density that doesn't much inhibit the experience of reading
This little piece from his discussion with Coates has been stuck in my head. this is 12 year old stuff! it's like, dogshit college interview-core! It's bizzare to be a professional adult with a high paying prestigious position and say something like this!
September 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This little piece from his discussion with Coates has been stuck in my head. this is 12 year old stuff! it's like, dogshit college interview-core! It's bizzare to be a professional adult with a high paying prestigious position and say something like this!
this is so embarrassing man
September 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
this is so embarrassing man
Finished another short little thing. I had heard this could provide insights into Bolaño, as the coup+dictatorship+exile are big. Didn't do that so much but was a fun read. Now I need to find a copy of this movie.
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Finished another short little thing. I had heard this could provide insights into Bolaño, as the coup+dictatorship+exile are big. Didn't do that so much but was a fun read. Now I need to find a copy of this movie.
double feature of Adolfo Bioy Casares novels (I didn't realize till midway through the 2nd, Dreams, that his first name is Adolf lol). The first was great, the second less so, largely for its focus on masculinity and shit (yawn). still, really nice, tight prose, a good looking mystery.
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
double feature of Adolfo Bioy Casares novels (I didn't realize till midway through the 2nd, Dreams, that his first name is Adolf lol). The first was great, the second less so, largely for its focus on masculinity and shit (yawn). still, really nice, tight prose, a good looking mystery.
I think it's pretty straightforward why you might oppose this if you oppose the Dem Party line on various things like should Trump get thrown in jail, should we support the genocide in Palestine, is universal healthcare possible etc.
September 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I think it's pretty straightforward why you might oppose this if you oppose the Dem Party line on various things like should Trump get thrown in jail, should we support the genocide in Palestine, is universal healthcare possible etc.
I still read this on my e-reader but I had a physical so what the hell. This rocked and was way more comprehensible this time through. The very last thing that happened was sweet and lovely, despite a kind of bleak and bitter ending overall. The family stuff felt like the stronger part
August 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I still read this on my e-reader but I had a physical so what the hell. This rocked and was way more comprehensible this time through. The very last thing that happened was sweet and lovely, despite a kind of bleak and bitter ending overall. The family stuff felt like the stronger part
Might be my new favorite PKD! it's got all the good stuff: miserable life, drugs, corporate sabotage, getting fired without cause, yearning after your ex, sleeping around, etc. a bit too much Christianity unfortunately (although the questions of faith work very well). I wouldn't choose Chew-Z.
August 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Might be my new favorite PKD! it's got all the good stuff: miserable life, drugs, corporate sabotage, getting fired without cause, yearning after your ex, sleeping around, etc. a bit too much Christianity unfortunately (although the questions of faith work very well). I wouldn't choose Chew-Z.
greatest artist of our time I'm not even joking
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
greatest artist of our time I'm not even joking
my ass was STUMBLING through this collection, you'd think I'd forgotten how to read entirely. Highlight is definitely "I and My Chimney," which is now far and away my favorite of his short stories. Billy Budd a tad disappointing but overall it was fun to get back into Melville's rhythm and style
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
my ass was STUMBLING through this collection, you'd think I'd forgotten how to read entirely. Highlight is definitely "I and My Chimney," which is now far and away my favorite of his short stories. Billy Budd a tad disappointing but overall it was fun to get back into Melville's rhythm and style
finished in the wee hours of the morning, really sped through this. dug the humor a ton this time through and felt like I understood more of the overall conspiracy. still don't care for the movie. crazy that Doc isn't even 30. love Pynchon, can't wait for Shadow Ticket.
July 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
finished in the wee hours of the morning, really sped through this. dug the humor a ton this time through and felt like I understood more of the overall conspiracy. still don't care for the movie. crazy that Doc isn't even 30. love Pynchon, can't wait for Shadow Ticket.
gotDAMN this went crazy. Wonderful ruminations on justice and law a legitimacy and gun-slinging and good vs evil and how that's all mostly a distraction for rich people using the government to legitimize their violence against workers.
July 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
gotDAMN this went crazy. Wonderful ruminations on justice and law a legitimacy and gun-slinging and good vs evil and how that's all mostly a distraction for rich people using the government to legitimize their violence against workers.
This was a nice read. One chapter is a slideshow, which is fun. Unfortunately it uses l33t speak a bit towards the end, which I disliked. But otherwise nice little character sketches, it's really a book about aging, I think?
July 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This was a nice read. One chapter is a slideshow, which is fun. Unfortunately it uses l33t speak a bit towards the end, which I disliked. But otherwise nice little character sketches, it's really a book about aging, I think?
I've read Lot 49 at least twice before but it really felt different this time—not sure if it's because I'm older or what. I found Oedipa a lot more sympathetic during this read.
June 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've read Lot 49 at least twice before but it really felt different this time—not sure if it's because I'm older or what. I found Oedipa a lot more sympathetic during this read.
Started some Dick after Bolaño. This was fun—I wish the focus on animals had been a part of the movie. The bit with the Toad was very touching.
June 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Started some Dick after Bolaño. This was fun—I wish the focus on animals had been a part of the movie. The bit with the Toad was very touching.
id read this before but got burnt out before the Crimes, let alone before the last section. goddamn. the part about Ingebourg and Reiter was devastating—did he kill her? so much of the end was about legacy, about death. crazy to write that shit on your deathbed. or maybe not?
June 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
id read this before but got burnt out before the Crimes, let alone before the last section. goddamn. the part about Ingebourg and Reiter was devastating—did he kill her? so much of the end was about legacy, about death. crazy to write that shit on your deathbed. or maybe not?
the shortest one I've read, also the most depressing? changes up a lot of things (female fronted, no self insert, set in Italy). I wonder if this is what his short stories are like.
May 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the shortest one I've read, also the most depressing? changes up a lot of things (female fronted, no self insert, set in Italy). I wonder if this is what his short stories are like.
another one bites the dust. only one left before 2666. this feels a bit more complete than some of the other posthumous stuff. the story of the African village that gets obsessed with woodworking and then slaughtered is amazing
May 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
another one bites the dust. only one left before 2666. this feels a bit more complete than some of the other posthumous stuff. the story of the African village that gets obsessed with woodworking and then slaughtered is amazing
he has shifted into 2666 mode here, in terms of his prose. this is the most he has felt like Pynchon, in terms of digressions and histories and essays that move seamlessly in and out of the narrative. it is also the most it has felt unfinished, though maybe it's just stuff cut from 2666
April 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
he has shifted into 2666 mode here, in terms of his prose. this is the most he has felt like Pynchon, in terms of digressions and histories and essays that move seamlessly in and out of the narrative. it is also the most it has felt unfinished, though maybe it's just stuff cut from 2666