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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike is currently reading

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics)

by Patrick Hamilton

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Nov 17, 2025 11:05AM

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West Coast Avengers Vol. 2: War Of Ultron (West Coast Avengers (2024-))

by Gerry Duggan (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 10, 2025 08:11AM

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The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 1

by Al Feldstein

bookshelves: currently-reading, annual-shocktober, classics, comics, horror, anthologies-and-essay-collections, reread, zread-in-2025

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Oct 16, 2025 10:29AM

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Home (Binti, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

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“These Meduse,” I heard my father tell my mother. “Look how the Khoush are afraid of just one. If I didn’t feel I was going to die of terror, I’d be laughing.” “Shush!” my mother said, elbowing him.

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“The human spirit cannot be overcome. You know, as a writer, if you took away my paper, I would write on my heart. If you take away my ink, I'd write on the wind.

(It wouldn't be an ideal way to work.)”
― Garth Marenghi

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“Religion is a flimsy construction of rituals infused with arbitrary power. The gestures have always been empty; behind them stand hustlers no different from you. All that is required is a convincing performance.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

tags: acting, hustlers, performing, power, religion

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“Descartes: a weirdo celebrity heretic pseudo-refugee who had a weakness for cross-eyed women, weed and conspiracy theories.”
― Katie Spalding, Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses

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“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
― Garth Marenghi

tags: books, horror, message, moral, theme

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“bragging is breathing and insulting is talking, where repetition and contradiction come standard, where vengefulness and insecurity erupt at random. Elsewhere, such qualities might get in the way of the story. With Trump, they are the story.”
― Carlos Lozada, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

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