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Hilariously little magic in this one so far. It's impressive to write a book about magicians and not include much magic, a fascinating forcing mechanism for good plot.

Well this is certainly one way to make "getting a boner" a central plot device.

Oh this’ll take a while.

I should have read this in one or two sittings. It's like one huge run-on sentence with no breaks or stopping points and starting back in is always so bewildering.

Woah this is way better the second read through.

There is a huge gap between how amazing the details and depth of thought are and how the major themes portray it in pop culture. “Big brother controlling and scary, bad” just doesn’t come close to accurately representing this book.

Next up on this year's series: Books I completely failed to appreciate a decade ago.

Ey yo did Nick and that photographer have a lil after “party”?

The first in a series of books I'm rereading because I read them when I was too stupid to appreciate them.

As macabre as it is to say, I'm just here to see how we go about justifying the carpet bombing of Cambodia into dust.

The dialogue in the old rundown bottle factory is some of the best lit I've read in a long time. Really doing it for me.

I need to un-train all bad product habits Upwork taught me in the last 20 months.

Jean you idiot.

It's real damn neat to neglect internal monolog in favor of "neither we, nor he, may ever understand what was going on in his head".

Already finished all of the towering Russian classics? Crack open Les Mis to reinvigorate your literary stamina and feel like an ass asking people if they've read a 1400 page cinder block.