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Vive LeRoy!

Seems a little like a crank book.

Volume 15 down! Worst one so far, I don’t have a lot to say for it. Only 12 to go!

Bro………..

Back on hiatus we go!

I’m a man, I have good will, so I guess I’m back in the saddle!

That took an embarrassingly long time. But auggy, this is kino.

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LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE



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Vol. 12 down LEEEEEEEEETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
15 to go.
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LIBTARDS AND THEIR SCIENCE DON’t UNDERSTAND THAT THE MIND CONQUERS ALL. DIABETES IS IN YOUR MIND, INSANITY IS A CHOICE. DON’T WANT TO GET RAKED MY GERMAN MACHINE GUN FIRE? LMAO, JUST IGNORE IT.

Hey all! Here's a link to the Neo-/lit/ Discord. I don't know if the link one in the GR group still works, but I'd like to invite anyone who wasn't aware of it to come chat with us, since we don't do a lot of that on the site itself. It's a fun crowd, fun enough to have been going for a few years now.

https://discord.gg/THgjhMby

Volume 9 Finished. This one was pretty good, if broad in scope.

Volume 8 is finished. Not really sure how I liked this one. I wish we spent more time on the nuts and bolts of the scandal itself. I get that’s not really the point, but it would have activated my almonds a bit harder. The politicking in this volume was only sporadically interesting.

The start was very strong with the election returns but I groaned a bit every time mionnet came around.

Very interesting volume. You can see how the French socialist movement, and others will be broken by the looming great war. Already, Jerphanion has begun to suspect that the international socialist movement cannot stop a European war and that martial may even be a sign of health in a society, though he tries to banish the thought. I'm really excited to see how the War changes his politics.

For Lartéguy, the tragedy of Dien Bien Phu wasn't the men wasted, the empire ended, or the nation layed low, but that he could no longer as easily have sex with Asian women.


He's a funny character, this guy, very transparent, not at all subtle, but he's also very authentic. You can see his heart and really engage with the man through the text.

Volume 6 out of 27 finished. All in all pretty great. The Bastide plot is super great as is the abortion plot. I'm excited we also get to check in on Jeraphanion since it has been a while.

The Champcenais plot gets better the more time I spend with it. I've been taking it slow.

It's interesting that we see the politics and business take a back seat to everything else. Aside from the abortion and catholic morals, we also get a neat generational view of the war of 1870, as well as another discussion of French Foreign policy, which has changed a lot since Vol 1 with the Anglo-French Alliance.

It’s interesting how Europe is able to retard the progress of regional integration in other places in the world. Kinda makes you appreciate how if the U.S-Europe relationship were different, the EU might not exist, at least not in its current form.

The Brits had their own alternative to the EC for a while.

It’s interesting to see African leaders stress South-South cooperation in the 21st century.

Last Light has been a lot of fun. The murder (non)mystery is such a weird turn for Halo and I love it, it seems like the second half transforms into the standard post-Halo 3 Latin American bush war, but I think it'll be a lot of fun now that the cast is built up. It's cool that we get to see the IIIs and Blue team from a colonial civilian perspective. Will read Lartéguy after this before another round of MOGW.

Volume 5 down, 22 left

Like I said, the more screen time everyone gets, the better their plots. Except Haverkamp, he hasn’t hit his stride yet. Sammécaud came into his own this volume. I spent this volume trying to think about the Meta plot and the collective experiences of all the characters. It’s a little hard to figure out what Romains is saying. I want to sit down and synthesize some notes to get this.

Reading five volumes back to back was a horrible idea. I’m going to take a break after this one.

At the same time, it is so information dense I’d feel like I forgot something if I took more than a few days off. The book is also so attached to its time and contemporary events. It isn’t a Time Capsule either.