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Had to DNF this one about 20% in. I really loved The Martian, but the writing in this one truly feels like it was written for a fourth grader.
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"OK fine, I will try again, since the movie was so fantastic." — Mar 28, 2026 01:19PM
"OK fine, I will try again, since the movie was so fantastic." — Mar 28, 2026 01:19PM
Swan Song
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This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grow, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take a taste of candy.
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
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“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
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“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
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“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
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