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There’s like, no suspense or character movement in this book

Ok Joan Didion

“He climbed back onto Keating’s lap as Keating lay below him”… what does this even mean

Brandon Taylor is so not good at writing dialogue lmao

Intentionally long sentence, but a poorly constructed one

This story happens too much in people’s heads I think

Bro how do people just hook up like this

Dialogue so allegorical

lol this book is so online

I can’t lmao this is kinda anime

He’s looking right at ocean Vuong. Staring ocean Vuong in the eye

Ong drag them to hell

A book by an observer forrrrr sure

The swipe at Sally Rooney… screaming

Not MangoWave 😭

I need an Aki in my life, ugh

I keep starting books and not finishing them these days … like my creative work

The writing is really beautiful but I feel no stakes around this book. People are just kind of doing things and plot an afterthought. This can work but not with a speculative fiction plot imo

He’s basically arguing that our intergenerational self conception is gonna be displaced. (“Our normative self-understanding”)

The Moby dick of car crashes

Omg he’s eating this university piece up

Bro… is he ahead of his time or are we just at the tail end of this decay

Bro… is he ahead of his time or are we just at the tail end of this decay

Bro predicted AI

This guy is so funny to read after Walter Benjamin bc he’s so super anti mass culture

Kind of miss how optimistic the 19th century was

This guy is a master of associative meaning

This guy is such a blueprint for everything, it’s insane

SO BEAUTIFUL

In hell on family vacation, I hate Vegas so much and I hate that my parents are the type of people who love Vegas, my only salvation is reading about a couple generations of a family each of which hates spending time with the generation preceding

"The war is no less atrocious for being only a simulacrum. ... What no longer exists is the adversity of the adversaries, the reality of antagonistic causes, the ideological seriousness of war. And also the reality of victory or defeat, war being a process that triumphs well beyond these
appearances."