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the description of this book really interested me, but so many characters keep bringing up Heaven and Christ and whatever else. The main character just got over the death of his daughter bc “heaven took possession of his soul”. like i might have to dnf this

“Nobody in the world is from Portugal. People around here don’t even know where that is”

HELLO?? PORTUGAL? ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS LOCATIONS JUST IN GENERAL? WHAT THE FUCK 😭

“For the year he dwelled there, the Eye of God was always near”

Oh.

Okay so what’s actually going on here? Did he find out he’s dying and come to this town to do something good for others? HES FROM PORTUGAL. HE MOST RECENTLY LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY. ??? I don’t understand this motive IF that’s what it is

“You old snake. Who are you?”

Girl. Like I agree….but chill

Okay so. Still the first portrait, this woman goes on to tell how she was pregnant at one time, in college, but HER FUCKASS FATHER. convinced her not to quit school to take care of the kid that she WANTED. and i think the assumption here is that she had an abortion that she DID NOT WANT. just bc her father was a dick. and she thinks she’s terrible for that, and has spent her life since just constantly sad. dude.

The first woman he gives a portrait back to is telling this beautiful story about how her grandmother raised her bc her father only cared about his work, and her grandmother made sure she was surrounded by nature and books and all that. And then this lady says “Yeah but you know what I really want most in life? To be a mom. And just a housewife. Just a house wife raising a kid”

Okay so like…What? Huh?

So far kind of boring but also a little intriguing? Hm.

woah.

“Surely the the world would know his secret then. Perhaps the world already suspected it”

Oh.

okay so he has in fact OFFICIALLY started losing his mind. i really cannot blame him

is…is the thing that he is referring to a closet….in which he used to hide himself away in frequently as a child….and now he hasn’t even gone in the room that it’s in for several years….Girl.

i need to read the pre-edit version BADLY. they edited out most of the good stuff 😒 (at least according to the notes at the end)

im sorry to say but this is in fact getting more interesting. sorry sybil 😔

“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

Hello?

“Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.”

okay real

“All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.”

Hey so that’s the gayest thing Ive ever heard in my life.

the lunatics at NASA have you doing all kinds of What. hey so. i don’t think you can say that ❤️how did that get past any of the editing process 💔

HAHAHAH

excuse me…they just breezed over the fact that he’s been on mars for 450 days???? I DONT REMEMBER HIM LOGGING THE OFFICIAL YEAR MARK. (haha mark. bc his name is mark. okay)

mitch thank you for *allegedly* taking one for the team

“Gay probe coming to save me. Got it. “

EXCUSE ME LMAOO

“But no amount of careful design by NASA can get around a determined arsonist with a tank of pure oxygen”

oh so he’s a COMEDIAN

this man is KILLING me. he truly takes every opportunity, even in his own logs that not one single other person is witnessing, to make some stupid ass joke. it could be annoying but so far i’m endeared.

“Now on to my next task: sitting around with nothing to do for twelve hours.
I better get started!”

mark watney 🤝 gen z humor

man he’s holding it together much better than i ever would be able to

mark is funny as fuck oh my god

“we went here. we did a this. *12 lines of dialogue* okay and now we’re at this other place. hmm what will our plans for the day be…let’s plan a trip. oh actually let’s just invite the whole friend group even though most of them don’t know most of the others. let’s go to this bar. okay now this bar. now we’re eating” ENOUGH. THIS IS BORING AS SHIT 😭😭AND ITS NOT EVEN WRITTEN WELL

i don’t really remember what page i’m on but i think i have to stop reading this 😭i just read the N word about 10 times in maybe two paragraphs. two paragraphs that were maybe three sentences long each. ew