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i love how this reads like the writings of this profound adhd guy. except its romanticised.

tanizaki just a weird guy huh. will try to get more of his stuff sometime

i'm still gathering my thoughts on this and will write a review soon. but, the person i would regale my book reviews to, and the one who pushed me into reading, is gone. my heart and soul have been ripped frm me. in but a shadow of myself, i attempt to review this praise of shadows

started this today .. was listening to hiroshi yoshimura's album: music for nice postcards .. might change up the music tho

just started this book 3 days back

wth am i even reading

started this 2 days back actually

its a dense book .. n i listened to a bit on audiobook but nahh this shpuld be consumed as pure reading

its gotten pretty interesting .. reading every chance i get .. but i still know tht major spoiler which is such a bummer

I JUST FRIGGIN SPOILT THE ENTIRE BOOK FOR MYSELF. i was just looking up a character name n saw a line i wasn't meant to see 😭😭😭😭😭

reading it side by sife with frankl's book .. so far its interesting. lots of new stuff n terms but thats to be expected.

slowly reading this book. its one of those ill be reading without the audiobook. so far its good. dense but good

what a great start to this year of reading .. finished it on the way to the airport n just staredat the car roof .. a v enjoyable book but also one with great su stance .. def one of the best scifi books that ive read .. the ending was surprisingly good too .. a terrifc book with a terrific audiobook narration by ray porter

actually imma put this in pause for a while

just got a copy of this book from my uncle during a wedding and although i already have some bootleg copy, i'll be reading this .. cos its prettier muahahah. its also a macmillan collector's piece .. so might be a new obsession

actually quite enjoying this ... breezing thru it .. got some gripes with it but letsee as the book progresses

ok, so i may have breezed through this but, me not enjoying this, is my own fault. i went into this book with certain expectations, it being my first horror n all. but having those expectations of what this book was to be, dampened my experience of the book. ik for a fact that if i read it without knowing any prior knowledge, i wouldve enjoyed it a whole lot more. that being said I'm still enjoying it quite a lot.

just finished it in the morning. ive given it 4 stars as of now and i also see why there could be much polarising views on this. i agree with a few and disagree with most. this book landed punches where it needed it most.

anyways I'll be getting onto this review soon ... lots to cover befote the year ends haha

ok im starting to see why there is such polarised opinions in this book

ok lol the satire here is crazy

my copy had 377 pages, just for correction .. either ways this was enjoyable but i still feel like every other book of hers was better than this. i might just give this 3.5 stars. hah i feel that i'm becoming more critical and more stingy with my rankings slowly.

i must say that i did quite like the symbolism n parallels used in this book, to the actual labours of hercules.

the short stories are quite interesting .. although this book is very enjoyable, i think its fair to say this is the worst book of hers that i've read. again, i'm enjoying it nevertheless. i love the symbolism of the mysteries with the actual labours of hercules

just started .. also why is there only 9 pages in this app ?? i got 378 in my cooy

im sitting in a metallic bird flying at speeds that could rip my arms away, flying with weight of a small building, in pitch-black night, breathing uncompressed air, finishing a story that began with an african named kunta kinte, kidnappd while chopping a tree for his drum, torn from his homeland into slavery in america, whose life and legacy will stay this indian boy, who just became an architect yest, for his life.

wth is the human race even ??

we have so much power as a species .. we have done n achieved so much over the course of existence that its so hard to comprehend

i love history with even greater fervour now

its crazy how this book has suddenly become my fav of all time, cos it was so alien to me in its culture, language, people, politics, traditions, etc

im gonna be in a voluntary reading slump for a while ...

there is a blurb / endorsement on my copy of this book that i only properly understood by the end

n that was: "THIS BOOK IS AN ACT OF LOVE, AND IT IS THIS WHICH MAKES IT HAUNTING"

im so glad i pushed thrpugh this book even tho it got hard to read n understand many tines initially. im glad that i push thru hard books at all

gah ...

i love humanity
i love history
i live the pursuit of man