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Damn near had a heart attack when I found out Soon had the same MC as Chance. But this one is definitely better, though again doesn’t quite stick with me the way Runaway does. 3.5/5

Chance - 2/5 I just didn’t understand this one at all. Woman joins a harem? What? Also guy kills himself and other guy says she shouldn’t feel bad about it?

Runaway - pretty good. 4/5. It was validating to think about the lamb for more than 30 seconds and understand the ending all by myself instead of googling it

Very interesting

I wish I had something quippy but it’s just quite good

A second six seven reference has hit the towers

This is certainly better than the movie

I’m now seated for this but there’s still an immense vacancy to nearly every character. I understand them but don’t know them, as I’ve been told about them through dialogue every time. There are certainly interesting themes here but they aren’t told as a compelling story

I wonder if writing from 9 AM to 10:30 PM makes you forget what people talk like

A bit heavy handed in that section, were we?

No chapters, only parts? Meta?

This ending straight up sucks, worse than AD Mitchell fumbling on the one yard line to be honest

I am, admittedly, no longer enjoying this book and hope it ends soon. It has become quite plot heavy for me

Damn this shit got creepy as hell outta nowhere

So it would seem the Goodreads edition has fewer pages. Regardless, it seems that we are losing the plot a bit here. Perhaps that’s bound to happen over 650 pages

“His penis hung limply, like kelp” dude why the fuck would you write that

End of part three. It’s starting to feel like the inclusion of Danny as a POV character was a pretty major misstep for what Kings intention was - I pigeonholed way too early on the anxiety and trauma readings and tagged Danny as the character I should care about (making Jack and Wendy instrumental) when I really think now King is just treating shining as a cool novelty

Nice history, I hope none of that becomes relevant to later plot events

I feel like King got a note from his editor that was like “why have we been dicking around for 200 pages” so he added the scene with the doctor to just explain exactly word for word what he’d been setting up with Danny

I’m curious what the plan is here because shining is an interesting metaphor but making the horror elements real seems like it would basically be saying that a state of anxiety is our natural state that we should always be in which feels wrong

Intriguing

Stiva burning $30k on the wood has to be the same level of sin as buying Innova discs new instead of as a factory second

Does he know Karenin is an anti work argument 💀

The way this guy writes Vronsky he would be pissed at the lives we live now. Also appreciate portraying the communist as an alcoholic who’s bitter about not being handed an inheritance

Leo Tolstoy would not fuck with HSTikkyTokky

Great, only 3.5 more weeks at this pace

Paul D is onto something, but I would argue that Sethe is onto something too. Maybe that’s why people like this book so much

Strikingly good, and surprisingly accessible. Revisiting some of these books really makes me wish I was a bit wiser when I went to high school and college

A welcome departure from the shitty prose I keep accidentally reading. I literally said “Wow” out loud after the first page, granted less to do with this book and more to do with Nettle and Bone