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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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This Book Does Not Exist
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This Book Does Not Exist 2: New Ghosts To Chase (Part I)
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| I don't know. It IS stylish, and the subject matter is classic in a way that feels out of time despite engaging with the modern world (movie star Verity pejoratively calls smartphones "rectangles"). It IS concerned with the state of cinema and the dw ...more | |
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| Full of apocalyptic energy. On page 183 the text says something about how the world is ending or we’re aging and that’s a consideration I have every day. Feels more current than the publishing cycle allows, which is a credit to Levy and/or the leadin ...more | |
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| Classic Klosterman contrarianism about a sport I dropped then reclaimed when my girlfriend became a Detroit Lions fan. Life is funny. Sports are my version of procedurals — there are no gray areas, only winners and losers. I can lose sleep over nuanc ...more | |
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| I wish this book stretched beyond The Apprentice, but it is subtitled “the invention” not the “history of” reality TV as I’d been telling people as I read it rather compulsively over the past couple weeks. It was illuminating for me personally as som ...more | |
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| I had fun thinking about all the different pop artists Dorn synthesized into Blue Velour. LDR, obviously, but also Ethel, some Taylor (despite her appearance in the book), and Billie... probably others I've now forgotten because this book races past. ...more | |
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| I didn't know this was a novel in stories until chapter two, and I almost wish we returned to the scene of what MUST become a crime at the end of chapter one. But this isn't a book about what I or anyone else wants. In fact it's explicitly called REJ ...more | |
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| Mostly I thought about how Cooper would've been podcasting now instead of shortwave radioing and quite likely would've been rich as hell. It also helped clarify for me that discovering Behold a Pale Horse as a teenager through its near-infinite refer ...more | |
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“I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”
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“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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