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beihai too serious wtf

it took 200 pages to raise the stakes by a fraction wtf

“he belonged to one of those mean social classes whose poverty was more spiritual than material…petty bureaucrats who still worry about preserving that status and spend their whole lives engaged in uncreative, exhausting random tasks that they carry out exactingly” TRUTHNUKE

they buy lou ji a woman ok cool
tyler gets Saddam Hussein??? what is going on

zhang beihai oh my god?!!??? he aired his only friend out what

completely different pace from three body this is fast fast fast

they gotta reveal these aliens we don’t get a picture?

no this play is about me woah

this play is about us

israel mention #2

israel mention.. y2k af

HE SAID IT

“slavelike figures” i’m gunna throw up in my mouth. cixin liu, what does a slave look like?

he’s not gunna survive this

when is someone gunna b a regular cashier

another book about a specific sector of a society but instead of an art department it’s a bunch of of scientists

we’re getting somewhere just line by line

sethes POV okay denver POV cool okay
BELOVED POV???? i’ve had it
what am i supposed to be reading?? is she recounting the time she spent dead? and how she came back? as an apparition?

“She could have been a plate.”

she said “Simple:” and then it’s the most complicated and very awful and sad story

toni morrison is a genius

now i think beloved is a demon sent to test them

beloved as a physical girl is beautiful and dark and mysterious
i’m not sold on her being real i think she’s a mass psychosis hallucination

that was end of the story happy ending dialogue and we’re not even half way
i don’t trust that

fantasy

took 50pages to enjoy this

i like Paul D what’s wrong with him? why have i only heard bad things? questions

read it fast
internal screaming
go back to reread for digestion
more internal screaming

i can’t read this i am so uncomfortable and every line is visceral

peer pressure wins again i’m so impressed