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Not romantasy but the bisexual wizard and the bisexual Viking are about to meet and I hope they kiss

Unclear at this point whether Alan Watt or Charles Taylor is having a stronger negative effect on my life.

I will defeat you Charles Taylor

Chicken Soup for the Autist's Soul

Wasn't really expecting a robust introduction to Georgian Wicca in my post-apoc Oregon alt-history pulp but I'm not mad. Plenty to complain about character wise but that's not really the point; Sterling has researched this thing to within an inch of its life. One for the fellas.

Breaking the first rule of 'The 90-day Novel' by publicly implying I'm writing a novel. Such a rush

Finally doing my homework. Kind of like if Christopher Lasch was nicer.

I just can't quit you, China

The prose of Werner Herzog has cleansed me like the waters of a pure mountain stream.

Reading in the hope that afterwards people will actually tell me what's wrong with my screenplays rather than asking if I've read Save the Cat.

Fellas, is it gay to love God?

Weird trend in this book where the more sensational and upsetting you'd expect to find a chapter based on title the more it tends to be a massive slog.

If I finish this book but don't get the part and subsequently become an international sex symbol I will have to do something unspeakable

Doing research for an audition. Easily some of the worst character names in any book ever. Zsadist. Rhage. Ahgony. Duncan.

"It’s sad, the shipwreck of a civilization, it’s sad to see its most beautiful minds sink without trace—one begins to feel slightly ill at ease in life, and one ends up wanting to establish an Islamic republic."

At the beginning of this year I decided I either had to finish the collected works of Roberto Calasso or Michel Houellebecq. Really beginning to wonder how things might have gone if I'd made the correct decision.