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"Because he was an artist, his testimony turns mere waste and misery into that useful thing, tragedy." 🔥

I will never be finished with this book. Every three paragraphs I have to put it down and spend ten minutes staring off into space in abject horror. Jesus fuck.

3 hrs 22 mins left in book, says the Kindle. Weeks pass. Years. Empires crumble. We Have Always Been Reading The Savage Detectives. 3 hrs 17 mins left in book, says the Kindle.

The beginning of this book covered a lot of territory I was already familiar with, so I sort of stalled on it. But I was still enjoying too much to abandon it, so... round two!

I am adoring this book outrageously omg

Every single essay in this book so far has been great but I swear for every one I finish three more pop up at the end, because I just cannot seem to finish the damn thing. I'm just resigning myself to the fact that I will apparently be reading this book until I die.

chug chug

I'm going to finish this book by the end of the year if it kills me.

Surprisingly slow going with this one. There's a lot of cool stuff happening, but it's almost too much, too constant. Very little variation in the emotional tone of the action, and so when something crazy happens it's hard to tell if it's important to the plot or not. I'll get there eventually, I suppose.

ok ok I'm on it

Psyched that this is finally out. This series is a lot of fun.

I am really not usually into self-help sorts of books, but people talk about this book with such a cultish zeal that I had to see what the fuss is about. If I don't reach some sort of nirvana-like levels of transcendent productivity after reading this, I'll be very disappointed.

This book is super interesting, but it's also kind of a slow read -- mostly because I keep having to stop and contemplate things while reading it. I'd be getting through it a lot faster if I didn't have to keep returning it to the freaking library.