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Denethor: "I don't like my good son. I, an asshole, prefer my asshole son (dead)"

(re) reading this along with the A More Civilized Age podcast. It's good!!!!!!!!

JRRT: “What if a tree could get up and walk around and talk to you? What would it talk about? Probably about its divorce, right?”

It probably seems like I’m reading too many books at once but this one is a year long read so 🤷‍♂️

Tom raised an eyebrow.

You ever get 400 pages into a 450 page novel and realize, jeez, I am starting to wonder if maybe these people are not gonna work out all their problems and figure out how to have a nice life in the next fifty pages.

I’m reading a Star Wars book from 2022 and there are scenes set on the Halcyon, and they talk about how big and shiny and cool and heroic and helpful the ship is. Weird to think this is cross promotion for an extremely expensive real world theme park attraction that hadn’t opened yet when the book was published, and doesn’t exist anymore now a mere 2 years later

I think I’m out. The guys on the Shelved By Genre podcast loved the first four books and hated this one, whereas I was meh on the first four books so I was kind of hoping that, because my opinion ran counter to theirs, this one would work for me. But the issue isn’t how much it “works” for me, I’m just incredibly fuckin tired of this Severian guy. Define the word “Fuligin” one more time, I swear

This is gonna be a spicy one, I can already tell

For some reason lately I've found myself interested in learning more about Hitler's rise to power. Not sure why that is...