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oh my god i am full of rage and sorrow

damn this is good! it was an impulse buy and i sure am glad for it!

i wonder if Emily Hall who wrote The Longcut has read this. on the Yamamoto scene and exhilarated!!

so far, this is a staggering work of creative genius!!! best prologue i ever saw!!!

💔💔💔

oh my lord... reading because my friend is flirting with someone who mentioned this and i wanna know what bits i can harvest for our jokes. yes. this and no other reason.

so good

such a banger already

this book is short and it is also SO long. and it is staggering.

oh my god this book is a fucking banger. i have been pining for a life-changing book after tearing through Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels in two weeks last month, and i have tried and i have tried to find something else, but there was nothing, and i feared i neared the end of my faith in books and in fictive truths. but then comes along this work of genius and with it, goodness, the spring rain of relief.

lol this is grimly funny. i wonder what the process was for structuring this book as a cult-hopping journey. did Maria Bamford dump out a first draft and a clever editor manipulate it into this frame? or did Maria Bamford see this frame herself and sell the book that way to begin with?

anyway, this is a good palate cleanser after the Neapolitan Novels which left me totally speechless.

oof. OOF. this is a work of unrelenting genius. how did Elena Ferrante do this? how? all of these books read like a divine current hurrying through. i just. wow.

literally scared to start this because what if it's the last perfect book i read?? spent like 5 hours removing books from my tbr on Goodreads to procrastinate on starting this 😮‍💨 but the time has come...

ooof. friendship but make it labor union. more like a labored union, amirite?! *slaps knee*

omg Elena don't you get that YOURS is the better life?!!

sigh. this work is ingenious. and to think i was given a copy years ago and didn't so much as open it then. i bet the rest of my January will be spent reading every book in this series, then watching the show on HBO.

holy shit this book is incredible so far. i am beside myself.

Slowly but surely I will become envious of every famous writer who has had a remotely normal lifestyle.

This is maybe the most important book I will ever read and learn from in my life.

Reading this on Roy Lotz's recommendation

Daaaaaang

This is the saddest book. It's so well done so far. Not sure if I have the stomach to finish it.

Reading this for a book club...not terribly compelled at the moment, unfortunately!