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Okay the IRA were genuinely violent thuggish terrorists… but fuck were they good at terrorism

Bam Bam deserved better 🥀

Oh God this whole time period was a clusterfuck, good rundown so far… seems to be sticking it to the Unionists, the British surprisingly don’t look AS bad

Nearly forgot how good ts was, like an Oliver Stone film

Excellent comparison of media coverage of Polish state violence vs Salvadorian state violence… also turns out Jimmy Carter was not a good guy

Rly good summary so far of the different players and nuanced conflicts of interest between all parties involved

Man Carla Jean deserved better

Dedicating this reading to my mother, Grandpa Willie, Nana Hazel, Uncles Stephen and Michael, and Aunty Joy who all lived through the Troubles

Love the parallels between Moss and Chigurh (who btw is terrifying)

Marlon James’ versatility is genuinely some of the best I’ve ever seen. A very slow burn but you get out what you put in

Just when you thought McCarthy outdid himself w Holden he writes Anton Chigurh. This is just as beautifully written as Blood Meridian and more accessible

No amount of CIA training can get past ur neurotic wife’s intuition

Starting a new Cormac McCarthy is a Christmas tradition for me atp

Everything Demus says is acc a bar… shame that was one of the shorter chapters. Part 1 finished

This shit brutal… literally is Blood Meridian but Jamaican (like even down to the lack of speech marks)

A great read so far but in the “humanitarian revolution” section I think there’s too much emphasis on a history of ideas and human agency- not the more mechanistic explanations I’d expect from Pinker

Some guy got fucked in the mouth at gunpoint in front of his son first chapter?!? Ts the Caribbean version of Blood Meridian… I love The Caribbean and I love Blood Meridian

Literally got this in some surprise package at the KCLSU and it acc has just about everything I like including ghost characters and ofc CIA conspiracies

Can’t wait to finish this so I can read suttin I acc like

Cool story Tarrou… but why do I need to hear about ur Daddy issues?

Okay getting better, good use of the priest and absurdist themes (only took 3 quarters of a wishy washy novel to get here kmt)- also acc further ahead, this update just never saved

Doing a quick Sparknotes on who the characters are (cuz I can’t keep up) has made all the difference… obvs at the cost of me spoiling who the mystery narrator is

Good ol’ fashioned “stethoscope to eavesdrop a conversation through the wall” trick

Great narrative account of superstitious violence in this chapter, great use of death rate per capita… but why’s there not a “per year” figure as well Steve?!?

Can’t tell if this book’s hard to follow, or if I couldn’t concentrate over the babbling of some little shit toddler on the train… still some beautiful passages tho

Another quick read to reach the reading goal… also I love noir so much and may acc write my own again like I did when I was 15

Nakata and Hoshino 🫂goated fictional friendship

Also is Kafka in purgatory tf????