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"I don’t know if this book is exactly “life changing,” but it does well as a sort of daily calendar with a Tao wisdom theme." Apr 10, 2019 02:08PM

 
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"I remember now why I’ve been reading this so sparingly. As talented as Vollmann is, he really is the dark and eerily humorless version of Pynchon, and the imagery in this book is unapologetically grotesque and it comes as a constant bombardment on every single page. It’s like a bad acid trip that happens to be WWII themed and with obscure historical characters you have to Google, like Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya." Jun 09, 2019 08:03PM

 
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"y so angry bro

In earnest though, the period political references in this are way over my head. Would help if he didn’t only refer to historical figures on a first name basis. Open enrollment university courses on his Exile Trilogy when?"
Feb 10, 2020 03:09PM

 
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