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Can't move past the fact that one of the main characters is named Homer Simpson.

I think, in Piers Anthony's own bizarre way, he really genuinely believes that a character declaring that he likes hot dumb women AND smart ugly ones is somehow advancing feminism. He's kinda Truffautian in this way.

Hornier than I was expecting and I was already expecting it to be uncomfortably horny.

This is INTERMINABLE.

Uh did this book go down in history just because it said jew or cunt every other word or

Sometimes people become figures in history not for anything specific they said or did but because they never shut up.

Throwaway line about how movie studios went through old movies to digitally erase the presence of cigarettes...

Obsessed with Nanny Ogg inserting herself into a murder investigation by going "Let me through, I'm nosy!"

Love how much this is prefiguring the slop content era of mass media.

Wow didn't think so much of Vidal's life was dictated by bottom shaming but here we are

I've been putting off reading this forever because I knew Bourdain's persona in this was gonna be insufferable, and it is! Still readable tho

I feel like Alvarez is maybe not interesting enough as the sole subject of a book...

My lord is this author ever horny for James Monroe

I thought this would have action in it but it's mostly guys in rooms discussing intrigue that's happening elsewhere, and occasionally mentioning how many kids they have or if they like golf. Nobody has gone like "damn you you ruskie bastards!!!" and shot a guy yet

Every moment of this has been excrutiating.

Ok this evolved into something very different than Butter, and it is reminding me a lot of a type of guy I used to tend to be friends with, before getting estranged from all of them.

Oh no is this really just Butter again h

I was not prepared for how boring this is! Almost entirely made up of meetings about things that are going to happen maybe, with side conversations about hobbies like sports and hunting that the men this book is geared toward are into.

Gibson is such a committed boobs guy, you almost have to respect it.

Extraordinary levels of gender so far. Men in rooms talking about their families between rounds of strategy.

I mean I gotta read at least one Tom Clancy novel in my lifetime.

A character describes the opening of a movie, but doesn't give its title, and I somehow knew it was Miracle Mile even though I haven't even seen Miracle Mile. A subconscious holmesian deduction based on assuming what references William Gibson would be throwing around in the 90s. In case you were curious about the kinds of brain worms I have.

Been chipping away at this forever and I'm gonna need another break. This is actually taking me longer to read than War and Peace because so much of it is tedious legal drama.

Uhhhhh she says "Langston Hughes's play Fences" who fact checked this book!!!!

She really made a good career in theater and television off seeming to be Jewish. Valerie Harper: the original Lea Michelle.

Said she was scared when filming on location in Brazil at night due to "knife-wielding transvestite pickpockets" 🙄

Love how genuinely funny this is.

The Buckminster Fuller biography mentioned when he met Valerie Harper, this mentions when she met Fuller. Full circle!

Valerie Harper claims David Groh was written off Rhoda because Rhoda had lost her comedic edge by being married and the writers wanted to get rid of the husband, but all other accounts say Groh was written off because he wanted to star in a different show. What is the truth???

love how these books have gotten more and more "the author's thinly veiled fetish"