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because of this book, i finally asked the age old question (why are so many marines catholic)

the only thing that has truly dated this book and made it not all the way factual is that in 1996 there had one been one bush as president so far

not the double anne rice mention

"as that would erase evidence of our non-crime" my brother in christ desecration of a corpse is a Felony.

later...

dialogue centered around the main character cursing is so cringey it has me googling what religion the author was brought up as. i keep expecting to see him drop a "heckin doggo" (and what i've seen so far isn't that far off from this anyway).

8000x microscope... i would like to use it

haven't even started and the book is dedicated to the beatles LMAO

that song from hereditary playing in my head when alex sees who's sitting at the fire

i genuinely need this book to stick the landing because i'm enjoying it a lot so far (getting compared to house of leaves, haunting of hill house, and secret history are big shoes to fill but i am Liking This A Lot)

elio comparing himself and oliver to cathy and heathcliff is making me dizzy

if the 24 year old blonde man i had a situationship with said goodbye to me by uttering "later!" i think i'd blow him up

is it better to speak or to die?

knowing immediately from "men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. the land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses" that steinbeck had some connection to leftism/communism/socialism (confirmed) but then seeing he possibly spied for the cia during the cold war???? the duality of man i guess.

steven hatfill of amerithrax accusation acclaim being the doctor who said people should use hydroxychloroquine to treat covid. lol. lmao even.

all the listed targets of the amerithrax attacks were democrats hmmmmmm #noticing

richard preston mentions one of the scientists going to school at unc chapel hill (shoutout lisa hensley) and her lab being across the street from her apartment. here i am sitting in the hospital in chapel hill trying to figure out where in the world this lab is currently or would have been at the time of researching and writing this portion of the book. not even a whiff of a street name or where on campus it is/was.

wright punching a wall because he got possessive of shori after she got another male symbiont i need him to be serious

burying the lede on john the normal and totally not iconic hat maker was crazy (everything really is tuberculosis and i'm not even a tenth of the way in)

dpmo with this batman and the joker logic... why are we feeling bad about a villain being "mistreated" when he has caused nothing but pain to those around him

i hope charles and sir know it's legal now

using "la petite mort" in a children's book is crazyyyyy

the emma bovary mention in a child's book is crazy

COME TO ME MENTIONED!!!!!!!!

just cried so consistently through harold's chapter in part four that tears are pooling at the base of my neck, i can't breathe out of my nose, and my head hurts. god this book is heartbreaking.

crying at a new part of this book (i only cried at the ending on my first read): harold talking to willem about jacob and liesl and how it was jb who told harold to lay off with the questions with regard to jude. oh jb...

i haven't even started rereading part 4 yet but i'm already dreading the arrival of caleb.

happy birthday annie wilkes

mrs. kaspbrak...?

when you read a stephen king novel - no matter what decade it was published in, mind you - you'll really be forced to read slurs you haven't seen someone use in years before the sun is even up and you've had a cup of coffee.