Status Updates From Маленький, большой

i can’t wait to finish

audiobook just paused on its own? the app is tired of it or whatever? i hit pause by accident? yeah that’s right this is intolerable

by his FIDELITY??? what fidelity?????

grimaced??? gry-MAAAACED????

is this bit meant to be meta? why? what’s the point NOW??

ha ha unlikeable stupid characters that this dude is writing about now why does that sound so familiar…

it’s baffling that people find stuff to like in this because it’s not like the rest of the nothing that happens is especially insightful or heartwarming or whatever

ok too unintelligible so 1.75 speed

still bored out of my skull though

2x speed

zoned the fuck out and tune back in and ive missed nothing

oh and 1.65 speed. the faster i can get this over with the better

so many words about NOTHING

i am a bit of a masochist yeah but why am i doing this to myself

ah, fun, whimsical wedding! how beautiful, the vibes are so good, and... oh? what's that? POV of an albino trout who may or may not have been cursed by unknown forces to spend his immortal life as a fish?

could’ve listened to 3 audiobooks in the time it takes to finish this one ugh

i figure i put this onto tbr because “magical realism” but this is not very magical. only in the vaguest sense. the main problem is that it’s BORING.

the only thing that was interesting before was the stuff about some prof with a theory of increasingly bigger worlds as you move inwards. sigh.

also there’s a channeling thing happening here but it’s not treated with any weight it just happens casually in the background.

books where not a lot happens can be fine… when the prose is really good (i can’t judge in this case because the narration is uninspiring) or when the characters are really interesting or endearing or at least funny. there is NONE OF THAT HERE!!!!!!

(muffled screaming)

is it an 80s thing to write vague ponderous “fantasy” books

1.5 speed

i’m training myself for torture

this is gibberish background noise to me at this point

surely this book doesn’t need to be 25 hours / 500+ pages long GOD

tf this racial stereotype suddenly? when was this book written