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I'm reading Catherynne M. Valente's first? novel The Labyrinth a little, and its just so many words, crazy combinations of words, with short breaks for dialogue, troubling dialogue! I also have her book The Habitation of the Blessed, maybe without the first the, and it's a little lighter on the crazy combinations of words, but some truly fantastic stuff has been happening, and I don't know if I'm ready for it!

Way too much of the slang from the future, and then when I read the synopsis on like a Jeff Noon specific wiki it wasn't all that exciting in realization than in theory.

This was actually pretty good, I should pick this one up again. In fact: I'm gonna put it on hold now!

I was praising Rendevous with Rama to myself for being so interesting in terms of landscape descriptions and then Ursula K. LeGuin was talking about how important characters are and this one was chock full of characters, but were they characters worth investing my attention in? I forget if Nick read this one. Lemme ask him!

I swear I'll read this someday. Maybe? I didn't read Hummingbird Salamander further than what, the first bit of the first chapter? What was even going on with that one? Someone was following someone's instructions to find a key somewhere? Who were they? It was marketed as an eco thriller? What does that even mean?

Bad start to what sounded like a pretty awesome story. I read the whole Wikipedia summary. I've been reading Wikipedia summaries again...

I thought I was a lot further in this than that. And I forget what exactly went wrong with it. He started talking about God too much, maybe?

I think it's pretty clear that Terry Pratchett is not the author for ME.

Did I give up on this one because I was intimidated by their digging into MDMA aiding therapy with people suffering from PTSD? Or was I stronger than that?

Squeak the Mouse was amusing, but I'd seen enough to notice it was probably going to be illustrated hardcore pornography off and on for the rest of the collection and I felt extremely uncomfortable with that content in the early afternoon on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Foucault's Pendulum is one of the most aggravating books I've ever started.

I'm currently 84 pages into Dreamsnake. It's from 1978. It's about a healer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland who uses snakes to treat people's ailments. I can't post an update attached to the specific title for some reason. What is with things glitching out? General atrophy? I was just in Brazil. This was a problem a few weeks before I left. I thought things would've been fixed by now! What do I pay taxes for anyway?!

I'm not really feeling it. Why don't I LIKE anything anymore???

Aw, that little robot tried to reconnect with that other little robot but the other little robot didn't remember the little robot because he was "fixed."

Clowes is so cynical. It can be a lot!

The cover art is so good, but the prose is not.

Too much history to cover. Sounded impossible.

I don't know, there's a new story about a bounty hunter or something? A guy shoots a bunch of people in order to rescue a teenage boy from a crime family? Couldn't we just stick with the morose girl and her grandfather's voice?

I returned my copy to the library yesterday on my lunch break. I don't know if I like the sensationalizing of MDMA's ability to help people make breakthroughs psychologically. I think I'd rather hear about the rave scene.

Was the opening chapter published as a short story years ago? It feels very familiar... Got this as a Christmas gift from Colleen! I hope it doesn't drive me crazy!!!