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Was not expecting complex philosophy from this but I am eating it uppp

Picked this up because I loved the movie and wow!! I was not expecting the book to be even funnier! So so good so far i'm so ready for crazy murder train hijinks

"For many, many years, I had the queasy feeling that my life was a book that was not very long and not terribly interesting."

Feeling called out on every page, this is great so far.

Fantastic blend of your usual fun facts as well as practical everyday advice and philosophical approaches to life.
Just really interesting!
I don't usually like these sorts of fact compilation books, but this one has left an impression so far!

Just finished the feature section and am looking forward to seeing some other poets because, unfortunately essa may ranapiri's work didn’t really work for me. I found their poems on the climate crisis and existential dread meaningful, but I don’t feel any of it will stick with me - But then again I haven't read much poetry so maybe I just need to come back to it when I am better at finding meaning in poetry

DON'T INTRODUCE TIME TRAVEL IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING INTERESTING WITH IT DEAR LORDDDD THIS IS DULL

Reading the edition with a foreword by Adam Hochschild and Introduction by Lionel Trilling and I am- baffled??! Haven't even started the actual book yet bc it's taken me so long to get through the THIRTY-FOUR PAGES of introduction bullshit that is literally just these two men being in love with Orwell it's kind of hilarious

Out of characters but rest assured I will complain in depth abt this later bc it's SO FUNNY

You would think lesbian space sword fighting and necromancy would be up my alley but I literally cannot get invested in this. I'm too far in to quit tho, gotta thug it out to the end 😔

Yearly re-read goes hard 🗣‼️

This book is a personal ATTACK. I feel TOO SEEN.

"No one played songs here. No one listened to music or told stories. They didn't even realise not doing those things made them bad people. The worst thing was I didn’t think Aunty Kat was a bad person, she was just a ghost of a person, and I knew why. Uncle Stu made people doubt they existed, and when you doubted you existed long enough, you started to dissappear."

GODDAMNNN BECKY ATE W THAT FR

I forgot how much I adore this book arghghg it's so magical

this book is DENSE. It takes like 2 minutes to get through each page 😭
It's really good tho

i'm so intimidated by the length of this book. help. there's so much stuff on every single page im scared.