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AU fic where Al is on Beast Games

Girl, so confusing.

I still wanna power through this but the "this patient is a fool to be a vegetarian! experimenting on animals is good for science!" is rough

Incredible run-on sentences in this bad boy.

Omg I think he misattributes a quote about Grandia that *I* wrote?? Said it was from the editor of the book it's in. I gotta get this from the library again and check the sources.

Trying to listen to this instead of read and I think it's making it worse?

He has an anecdote in this about playing music with Cher and Carole King and then immediately follows it with a story about going to Studio 54 with Carly Simon, where Truman Capote was DJing.

It's been years since I've read one of these but you can really just jump right back into em, Cherryh always provides plenty of exposition up front filling the story in. Something kinda meditative about this series for me.

We get it, you like Bukowski!!!

Might have to switch to audiobook for this one. There's not enough substance to keep me fully occupied. Like no thesis. Would be better off just reading the secondary sources.

Nothing against Moher but I'm just feeling a strong "I know more than you" about this...

Hmmmm it's not WRONG but describing Kurt Kalata as a Game Developer writer just pages after describing someone else as a Hardcore Gaming 101 writer (when Kurt founded HG101) feels off.

Still enjoying this but the more I read the more I'm convinced it's mostly a tax write off for all the Japanese street food Bryan Washington ate and then described in this book

Obsessed with how they stuck their Sherlock Holmes fanfic into this one.

Love the long section dedicated to how annoying hitler was at dinner parties

Rereading on audiobook this time and lol the narrator gives Lena's father a Chinese accent even though it's been established he's Irish American.

This is better than most but we must address the plague of short nonfiction books about niche subjects with a casual tone that turn out to be at least half memoir. Looking at you, Fish Don't Exist.

Glad this is holding up! It's such a good depiction of loneliness. No wonder I was obsessed in high school.

Stephen King in a manic stupor writing "Chekhov's Ford Pinto" in his notes over and over

I hate this stupid ugly family istg

The conceit of this one is wearing thin unless something changes soon...

Still really enjoying this but how are there still 4 hours left??

Lol at this immediately back pedaling on the dumb twist ending of the previous book

Reread books!!!! I just read this last year yet I barely remember anything about it.

Enjoying this way more than the first time I attempted it but it still bothers me that they're making games in the 90s that feel more like indie games from the 2010s.

Not to be pedantic but Persona didn't really have the cultural cache that this novel suggests it had in the late 90s. The way it's written about sounds more like Persona 3 onwards.

Pendergast really just needs a serial killer of the week because this is draaaaaaging.

Lmao the apple product placement, never experienced this in a book before

Ok we are starting to get glimpses of a good book but too little too late!

Finally an author dares to ask, "What if we made Goodbye Dragon Inn into a literary novel, and made it as boring as possible?"