Kyle Wasko > Recent Status Updates

**snort**

WHAT EVEN IS THIS

“It felt like I was being water boarded to death by modernity”

uh oh

uh oh

Re-read (number not known—I think maybe five?) is underway. Also re-reading Greg Carlisle’s Elegant Complexity companion at the same time.

Hal’s Year of Glad opener hits as hard as ever.

Took me three tries (over a couple of years) to get through this one originally. Coming back to it was one of the greatest decisions I’ve ever made.

(Leo point)

honestly if someone would’ve told me this is mostly about getting shitfaced in Paris, I probably would’ve read it sooner

Wish I loved anything half as much as Chloe Walsh likes using the word “gape[d]”

Prom sequence = elite

(Also: Long Walk indirectly acknowledged. DANVERS, REPRESENT)

tfw when you see a writer reference “Grade Five” and you realize they’re Canadian

Only taken six and a half books for someone in universe to acknowledge how profoundly weird it would be to meet a private eye in real life

Five times

if I’m being honest I don’t LOVE that Ben McKenzie has referenced his degree in economics three times in the first thirty pages.

I’m not saying this is AI, but the President being named “John Grape” is raising my spidey senses