Status Updates From Prisoner's Dilemma

There’s been hints that Eddie Sr. is creating a fake world, maybe in miniature but probably just on paper, called Hobstown. I thought it was a major element of the book but here we are 3/4 of the way through and it still hasn’t been fully explained or exhibited. Is Powers saving it for the end?

I could have read more today but played video games instead. There was a section of the book on Japanese internment and I realized it’s a part of American history I’m aware of but I have never heard voices of survivors. I added a few recommendations on the subject to my WTRs after reading that part of the book.

Not much new read but I want to say something I haven’t expressed (here) yet. This reminds me a lot of ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’. These upper-class, well-educated, white characters who speak to each other in metaphors—sometimes to the point of being silly. But there’s a lot of poetry packed into everything Powers writes and I am definitely drawn to that. Overall, I guess I’m feeling positive about the book.

A character in this book, instead of “pal”, called another character his “palamino”. Weirdly, in the book I’m currently reading to Odesa (FIZZOPOLIS #2: FLOOZOMBIES), the protagonist calls his friend “palamino” as well. I have NEVER, so far as I can recall, read a book where a person calls another “palamino”. And now I’m reading two simultaneously? It’s kinda bonkers.

I planned to read this after VIGIL, but needed a book to read on the treadmill & a physical book with small type wasn’t gonna cut it. I needed an ebook I could increase the font size of. So I started this a little early. It’s not doing much for me so far but I’m not really into the main plot yet, so I’m still optimistic it’ll connect. The way they speak—the characters are definitely written by Powers.