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riot incoming

it's giving bond and le chiffre, just kiss already, i'm so bored

y'all if this is just silo with the serial numbers filed off i'm going to RIOT

hey blake? buddy?? is now, when your MC is fighting off some monster trying to rip out his guts, really the time to be noting that his abs are "well-defined"??????? IS IT REALLY??? i've noted this with the other 2 books of his i've read, but crouch 100% suffers from the dan brown self-insertion disease, just a milder strain. -__-;;;

okay, i'm really glad i have read 2 of crouch's other, more recent books before this, because this would put me off him for LIFE. what in the coked-out-richard-bachman fuck is this book ABOUT???

what the fuck even is happening lmao, this is monstrous. the most dangerous game but add some psychological torture.

i'm not sure what it is about guys who "never hit a woman" but are fine with violence otherwise-- like that's not the flex you think it is?-- and like dude, if a psycho nurse is trying to inject you with something while giggling about how excited she is to make you go thru surgery while conscious but paralyzed? fucking knock her out!! idk. it's stupid.

woof i forgot how much "you are trapped and everyone is acting like you are crazy" plots scare the shit out of me lmao. i still don't like ethan's POV very much, i care way more about teresa trying to figure out what happened to him. if this is some time travel shit (which kate being old seems to imply) imma be annoyed.

i'm really not liking ethan's storyline at all, it feels unreal, and now that we're in teresa's storyline it seems clear that the "town" ethan is in ISN'T real, or there's something wrong with it-- not like stepford weird, but like, he's in a simulation or something. they're just not acting like real people. idk.

so the sheriff isn't going to go investigate a report of a fucking decomposing body up the street??? and why is no one asking ethan if he needs HELP? this is wild.

white men can't just ask for help, jesus christ, lmao

am i taking this slow or is it slow paced? hard to say. most invested in esheme right now even though i can guess she's the villain of the tale, lol.

TOTALLY FORGOT that the thing with quan's arm happens in this book lmao. WHUPS.

really like both the narrative voice and the audiobook narrator for this.

i... completely forgot that they don't draw jake at all in this book.

are we meant to think that jack mort is wearing women's underwear or that roland doesn't know what briefs are? the things SK has decided roland does or doesn't know about seem randomly chosen.

hilarious that the cop literally dies while freaking out that roland-in-jack-mort had the same mannerisms as the terminator.

ALSO lots to be said about those of SK's heroes who fall into love at first sight and how that is always a sign of virtue and heroism, but for the characters who fall into lust at first sight it's almost always a sign of corruption, or the threat of it.

there's also something interesting in how SK chooses who talks about sex and how, not just in DT but all his books. part of it is that he's not good at writing sex and i think he knows it, so he uses horniness-- the succubus who attacks jake, detta's sexual appetites and filthy mouth-- to indicate wrongness or evil. HAVING sex doesn't mean you're bad, but how you TALK about it might.

there's a LOT to say picking apart the way roland and eddie talk about detta vs odetta. SK is doing his best but his limitations as a white cis-male boomer do show through. detta is just hard to take seriously, i guess? and so the way they talk about her as evil and monstrous feels icky. and then odetta as the opposite pure good, also weird.

"what did you think i was doing, calling red lobster for takeout?... i shot one of the fuckers and cooked the living christ out of it." i love eddie dean.

sweet jesus king is so good at these urgent scenes where every fumble is excruciating, every second is a horrible torment.

in the dark tower drinking game that doesn't exist, you'd take a shot anytime roland mis-hears a word from our world, and i'd be taking my first shot now for tooter fish lolol

HOLY SHIT Y'ALL I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS

HO SHIT. did not see that coming.

saw a tumblr post recently that said "a villain origin story that shows their biggest trauma is way less interesting than a villain origin story that shows the first time they realized they could take advantage of someone and get away with it" and this is kind of doing both? it's giving daenerys in all the mixed good and bad that implies.

petra lord said what if gambit could fly

this is just a wild fucking ride. i hope the rest of the gang returns before the end.