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I'm pretty damn confused...

"He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade."

"You like to play poker, but you're not much of a gambler, are you?"

"Not when the odds have teeth."

"Even now her mind skittered away from the memory; it was not a safe thing to think about. "

"...there was no sign of Rockefeller Center or Grand Central Station, just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw..."




Such a visual description...

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

"There are few things sadder than eating alone at Chipotle at closing time."


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Oh Jesus Christ.....WHO CARES?!?!? Why won't this book end????????

This thing is kind of an underwhelming clunker...

"Speaking about what happened gives weight to the bad memories, making them feel raw and recent."

First story took a minute to get going, but was alright

"Crying won't fix anything. But it has a way of putting you back where you were before the trouble began."

I've been looking forward to the for a while now....

Here we go!! : )

the lamp goes out, sure as a shattered bulb, his left eye gone, the pain a strange electricity in the fat of his brain, though worse is the crisp, alien feel of air inside an open socket and the syrupy crawl of vitreous humor down his face, some of it dribbling into the hole Reis knocked through his cheek, all of which tells Bagger that this is how he dies, the eggshell obliteration of every single piece of his body

"...everything goes dark, like they have been stuffed into a giant's pocket..."

"...his death will be insignificant, but that don't mean it won't hurt..."

Story #1 was spooooky!!

Tale #2 was not!!

The "tough guy" dialog is reading a touch forced...

"I felt like one of those curious, hungry fish that looks at a hanging worm, a slight glisten of hook, and thinks: You know, I can make this work."

"The crinkle fries were precut and precooked. Warmed up in a microwave. They had a soggy taste, like chewing on the fingers of a dead man."

"My take, right-wing extremism is the same as left-wing extremism. They go far enough in either direction, they meet at the back of the circle where they can fuck each other in orgasmic anger."

"Irving drives us back to his apartment and we have sex. That goes better than dinner, although I'm aware of being hungry throughout."



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"One more thing. Don't tell Will that you're doing this. He needs to focus on Mac McAllister, not you."

"I can't--"

"Let me disabuse you of the notion that your moral compass directs me," Amanda said. "This is my circus. Will is my monkey. Understood?"

...

"Yes ma'am."





HaHaaaaaa!! Amanda is such a G! One of my favorite characters for SURE!!
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"There's a pen and paper
In the drawer beside your bed
Make a list of everything that terrifies you
That's me"



DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN, that's creepy AF !!!!

"She like traveling at night the best, liked chasing her headlights into the dark."

""They both found the one kingdom promised all men: a hole in the ground and eternity to rule it."

"The problem with wine was it made you emotional. The problem without wine was sobriety."

Gwen issuing a riddle challenge is the first thing that isn't ringing true in this tale. It feels like a clunky plot device that's out of character for her...





Still really enjoying the book though!!

"The problem with inviting the unnatural into your life is it might decide to stay. "