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Still hoping a little bit that the "stay far away from Orion Lake" had a better, more mysterious reason. If Gwen sent the message after seeing her daughter almost getting murdered, then yeah, no kidding stay away! Otherwise, why not explain a little in the message "this guy is a murderer?"

Why is everyone out to get this guy Edmond wow

Very literary. I have to recommend it to anyone interested in family/family trauma or psychology. There's a lot of writing about what family dynamics DO to you, and this analysis of the small things: the mom's piano, the dad's architecture, Bechdel's symbols in her diary- create something so vastly complex and real about family, more than the recounting of dramatic events.

“Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, the tender hearted live? I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.”

"Despite our tiffs. despite her nastiness, despite all thte fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise-a paradise whose skies were the color of hell flames-but still a paradise."

"I am no poet. I am only a very conscious recorder."

This is CRAZYYYY I can't stop

"He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane."

Love

"And that's what you're being punished for - by all kinds of things: by the world you tried to get rid of, or by the self you tried to get rid of."

(Am I on to something or is this Ellis's 2nd short story collection with a title that's a song lyric from the same kate bush song and kate bush is featured in one of the stories)

YIKES dawg

Ok very cool and creepy but the most difficult part about reading it is howww dumb the main character is.

rad, dude

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I was pleasantly surprised by the ending! Was a fun time.

I'm liking it so far. I'm definitely getting lost in the 4 characters, so I try to remember them based on their job or location, but it's a charismatic book despite the bleak atmosphere. What I find enjoyable to read is not only the intense descriptions of everyones face and the surgeries they'd need to fix themselves and how class plays a role in it, but the obsession of celebrity culture too.

I'm liking it so far. I'm definitely getting lost in the 4 characters, so I try to remember them based on their job or location, but it's a charismatic book despite the bleak atmosphere. What I find enjoyable to read is not only the intense descriptions of everyones face and the surgeries they'd need to fix themselves and how class plays a role in it, but the obsession of celebrity culture too.

finished "Don't Look Now," and I sped through it. It's really, enticing, and creeped me out. Will definitely reread that one at some point.