Status Updates From Lesser Ruins

He needs to stop talking about the dance scene in Chapinero, Bogotá or I’ll lose my mind

The main character's love of coffee gives the reader the idea that he is a connoisseur of good coffee from different parts of the world like Kenya or Mexico. I enjoy reading about his bovine faced students at the community college who keep looking at their phones in a dull anxiety for the future moment. I like how he plays Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and likens it to the moment before you are mutilated. Revealing.

I see how a critic called this his “Bernhardian project” because I see some of Benrhard (after reading Concrete and The Loser) in this book.

What is admirable about this book is that it focuses on a real love for electronic music without all that wrongness it could easily sink into negativity with. I feel a strong bond with Marcel and his music tastes! Great so far!