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I'm guessing Fantomas is Charles Rambert

This is full of shit like "There intervened a silence like the silence a bowler experiences after lofting a gutter ball. You couldn’t hear a pin drop."

“He fed his measurements into the clotheomat and dialed for a one-piece. It was delivered in thirty seconds flat; a metal drawer containing it sprang open and caught Bush painfully on the shin.”

This is my 15 year old neighbor's favorite book and I had to wash my hands before reading.

“Yeah, I know, the world’s going to hell in a slant-eyed Honda...”

"Uh," MacIntyre replied incisively.

have to revisit this when i haven't just read non-fiction books about abusers.

dangit this turned out to be a re-read

i only remember this book exists when i log into goodreads

There’s no books made from paper because trees have more rights than we do.

She took a puff from her cigarette and exhaled the smoke. It smelled sweet and heady. This was the type of cigarette that made people see God, slowed time and attracted happiness.

This was his world now, in all its sublime crumminess, where intellect and ingenuity and talent were as equally meaningless as stubbornness, cowardice, and stupidity.

He was one of those apocalypse-as-moral-hygiene people, with a college-sophomore socialist slant. The dead came to scrub the Earth of capitalism and the vast bourgeois superstructure, with its doilies, helicopter parenting, and streaming video, return us to nature and wholesome communal living.

Daaang! Dr. Burns pulls the Hitler AND the Charles Manson cards.

In order to unearth the origins of your mood swings, most psychiatrists, as well as the general public, assume that a long and painfully slow (several years) therapeutic process is necessary, after which most patients would find it difficult to explain the cause of their depression. One of the greatest contributions of cognitive therapy has been to circumvent this.

After all, half of all the carpenters (and psychiatrists, secretaries, writers, and dentists, etc.) throughout human history have been below average. Do you believe that? It’s true by definition because “average” is defined as the halfway point! It’s ludicrous to fume and complain that this particular carpenter’s average talent is “unfair,” or that he “should” be other than he is.

Other people have free will, and often think and act in ways that aren’t to your liking. All of your insistence that they must fall in line with your desires and wishes will not produce this result.

When the all-too-human performance of other people falls short of your expectations, as will inevitably happen from time to time, you’ll feel bitter and self-righteous. You’ll either have to change your expectations to approximate reality or always feel let down by human behavior.

When you are depressed, you wear a pair of eyeglasses with special lenses that filter out anything positive. All that you allow to enter your conscious mind is negative. Because you are not aware of this “filtering process,” you conclude that everything is negative. The technical name for this process is “selective abstraction.” It is a bad habit that can cause you to suffer much needless anguish.

Music can regulate our mood, reconnect us with our authentic emotions, reduce our heart rate and blood pressure, lower stress, and manage our anxiety levels. Music can even be used in a therapeutic relationship to help addicts in their recovery, improve social functioning in patients with schizophrenia, and reduce the side effects of cancer treatment.

*fans self*