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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.

finally something decent

wish i didnt look up the author just to see that i was right about her being an American born and raised bc however else could she mention a damn Jap Ranch?? and then this bit about Canada—
it’s like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.

in comparison to Japan? laughable.

"What’s depressing is when everyone is trying too hard, and the most depressing thing of all is when they’re trying too hard and actually thinking that they’re making it."

honestly this pretty well sums up my opinion of the book so far. why is everything i pick this week unsatisfactory?

Congo sprawls on the middle of the world. Sun rises, sun sets, six o'clock exactly. Everything that comes of morning undoes itself before nightfall: rooster walks back into forest, fires die down, birds coo-coo-coo, sun sinks away, sky bleeds, passes out, goes dark, nothing exists. Ashes to ashes.

Congo sprawls on the middle of the world. Sun rises, sun sets, six o'clock exactly. Everything that conies of morning undoes itself before nightfall: rooster walks back into forest, fires die down, birds coo-coo-coo, sun sinks away, sky bleeds, passes out, goes dark, nothing exists. Ashes to ashes.

chapter 2 is doing commendably well for turning the whole course of the book a complete 180 degrees from hella cute to absolutely ruthless

never expects such a cute read. shall i begin bracing myself with the second chapter?

10% in and still not convinced....

yomiru

does... does this book have no paragraphs???

this book is devouring me whole

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not that i know anything about it, but i'm getting quite massive SAO vibes from this. it did not make for a good first impression.

i.. am... trying... real hard... to finish this...

a solid beginning, though for some reason the narrator has taken the voice of someone's grandpa in my head

reads like a pretentious fanfic

i'd confess that i've just now picked this up and as soon as i read the blurb, i immediately know that this is one of the books that has the capacity to destroy me

reading this about two decades too late, probably

also, it's a very simplified version of history, it's almost comical

dammit

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