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No teacher acts like that- just gotta put this here

Pugnax is my idol

Back on my reading shit LETS GOOOOO

Georges Bataille is a weird dirty man and I'm not fully sure if it's in the cool way or the bad way quite yet

2024: the year of reading what makes me happy and not worrying about meeting a reading goal. Comics rule, end of story.

Hell yes!!!! Just pure fun.

Yes please

Maybe not the best time to be reading Alice Walker buuuuuuuut DAMN this is a good book and it's breaking my heart more and more with each reading session I habe

Absolutely devastating and I can't believe I haven't read it sooner. This is DEFINITELY my type of book in pretty much every aspect, and I'm honestly sad I only have 200 pages left of it to experience.

Reading this in a Mario voice for that extra Italian effect and it's kind of making things less scary and disturbing :/ but overall I mean come on its goddamn Dante's Inferno you know what it is

On god I'm going to become fluent in Nasdat for no reason other than to just annoy people with gibberish and be like "but it's a language though!"

This is actually "all vibes no plot" the book so far. Nothing meaningful is happening. The main character is a dumb asshole. Some of the scenarios are interesting but so far I'm VERY disappointed. Maybe I just "don't get it"?

Alright so what tho

I thought that the Patrick Melrose novels names matched up with the episodes of the mini-series. I was very incorrect, but so far this first book is fantastic, despite how grim it feels so far.

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The U.S. government has just always been so good at corruption it's wild

Teaching this with animal farm for summer school. Yay dystopian fiction!

Robert Eggers needs to make a black and white 3- hour Moby Dick film ASAP and no one can tell me otherwise. Epic and horrific whale hunting scenes with horrifying music and visuals using practical effects. It feels criminal he hasn't already done it tbh.

2/3! Good god

The audacity of this mf to just write encyclopedic entries about whales and whaling constantly in the middle of his narrative is equally fascinating and frustrating

So in the beginning of May I was like "yeah no problem, I'll read Moby Dick in a month" and here we are.

Now that I know Ishmael literally hates Moby Dick because he's a white whale, I'll never not find that funny.

No one ever told me Moby Dick was funny as hell and heartwarming in the beginning and low-key gay like what the hell this is fantastic! Can't believe it was written in the 1800's.