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Man Brian is lucky the water doesn't have obvious parasites. I certainly don't remember the overarching subplot about the mom's infidelity leading to the divorce reading this as a kid

Wtf

Wait can we do more experiments into the 4 hour day

dude wtf, I had no idea one of the plot points of Brave New World was the brave new world people visiting a reservation to be appalled at how backward and savage the native people are. I thought this was a story about the far future people being appalled at us people of the modern day??

Am I having an ADHD moment what is this

I love that this guy is named Hunter Graves. It's very Flynn Rider coded

Love the mysterious countdown

Wow that Nghi Vo story needs to be read. A really complete and imaginative world for a short story. Very unlike anything I've read

I need to read more Nghi Vo. Her stuff is always so unique and surprising

Hey! This story sounds really familiar 🤔

Wait how am I only halfway through. This is almost everything I remember about the novel lol

Man that's so good. Sometimes the best drama is just a simple conversation

Love Theodore. Remind self to write this one too

Or all along he was finding confidence behind the veil of ink on a page
Fantastic line remind self to write that down

Without knowing the date of theodores wife's death and assuming hes similar ages, he would have either been born after the war or been a child to young man in Germany

Sorry but there's no way this lady didn't vote for trump in 2016

Not to be completely uncharitable because I get that stereotypes exist because they're often true and representive

I'm having mixed feelings about the portrayal of the boy who's on the spectrum. Like little hints of it is fine but this letter about being best in math being bullied etc feels like hitting all the greatest stereotype hits

Hmm... Who?

Hmm, am I going to need to keep a list of books mentioned in the book too??

I wonder how people identify each other. Maybe it's some sort of emotional frequency? Normal brains resonate with like and so forth?

I would totally write a letter like this

Is Thor a god of war too?

Why are we with boys playing "prison"? I swear Le Guin's less a writer than just a scientist putting together a series of thought experiments

The Edge shout-out! That movie is so good!!!

Man, the deer story is just so good. Just so succinct and efficient. Before you know it, you're tense and not even breathing, because Senna's effortlessly tapped some primal fear in you. Lenny's Japanophilia is silly and relatable, but his "we need to get the f out of America" is even more completely relatable

Oh man, is her husband's criticism secretly applying to her as an artist? Also I'm cursed with knowledge. My coworker said <spoiler>that Jane is a villain, and now I can't unsee that</spoiler>

Yellow stars? What's that referring to

Can't tell if the editor is right patronizing or full of bs

Just started but I love the writing. The phrasing is hilarious at times. Love the frank discussion of race, it's very private and casual in the way you can only use when you feel safe. Really dig the messy relationship between the couple and their neurodivergent children