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Finally starting my autumn TBR

It is truly a testament to my love for literature that each book I tackle seems to be more incomprehensible than the ones that came before (absolutely complimentary)

Non ho la pressione abbastanza bassa per leggere di Meli dopo una giornata di lavoro

Boh raga io comunque da Saviano mi aspettavo un racconto forse un po’ più imparziale, non un’agiografia

This is truly the year of reading books gifted to me years ago

This is probably the most difficult book I’ve ever read.

Kinda crazy to me that we study d’Annunzio and skip Gadda

It is crazyyyy how even an author progressive enough to define the changes of regime orchestrated by the US around the world for the better part of the xx century for what they were (genocides, mass murders and acts of terrorism) will still manage to sneak in a whole paragraph where they suck it up to capitalism. cmon man…

Not a fan of the language used in certain passages, calling the leaders overthrown by the CIA “naive”/“inexperienced” or deeming their progressive reforms “political missteps”. Had a ball reading about the Indonesian sex tape fiasco tho. Truly a way to spend US tax money

I don’t have many positive feelings towards a white North American author who invents a myth and attributes it to indigenous peoples of Latin America

Sometimes I get really annoyed when things everyone says are amazing are indeed amazing

“I don’t even care anymore” I say, before crying for 4 chapters straight. Robin Hobb if I catch you it’s on sight

Being compared to Regal from Fitz’s pov in this series essentially means being targeted by the Grim Reaper, however I want to hope Hobb won’t pull the exact same thing she does with this archetype for the fifth time in a row

Robin Hobb is literally the anti-JK Rowling because she’ll hit you with earth-shattering misogyny and then not even 10 pages later she’ll show more innate understanding for gender fluidity than the vast majority of fantasy authors. I wanna pick her brains so bad it hurts

Cannot believe I’m finally finishing this series after 4 years

As much as I resent Nabokov’s literary opinions being taken as word of God this is indeed one of the best books I have ever read

The objectivity and matter-of-factness with which Fanon analyses the mental health of French officers who have tortured Algerian people and whom he treated as a psychiatrist is astounding. Every page I read makes my admiration for this man grow more intense

I can only describe this as plot and characters by Dostoevsky written with the style of Micheal Cisco. Very niche and yet. very much written for me

The fact Nabokov called this one of the best books of the 20th century and yet despised Dostoevsky makes no sense to me. One could not exist without the other

Sometimes I think my inability to enjoy perfectly fine genre fiction is due to some kind of internalized snobbery (which might be!) but then I find pieces like this, which are wonderfully written on top of being just pure fun and I am reminded that I am, indeed, capable to enjoy a good thriller. The author just has to know how to write

Whoever has written the synopsis of this book is a criminal because I’m 170 pages into it and there is no murder to mystery over. I’m loving it, but the target audience has been missed I fear

I’m convinced this book has such a low rating because most people didn’t understand a word of what Soyinka was writing.

First chapter: religious cult vibes. Second chapter: scathing political satire. It should also be a murder mystery. If this doesn’t become one of my favorite books of all time I’ll be. So sad.

It’s always kind of annoying whenever a book that people say is Good™️ is in fact that good

Ci siamo e non ci siamo. Ci siamo perché libri di questo genere la narrativa italiana ha un bisogno disperato, non ci siamo perché manca, a mio parere, la cifra personale al virtuosismo. Alcuni capitoli (quello di Hitler e gli anglicismi, la fabbrica di colori, il racconto iniziale dei due disertori) riuscitissimi, altri (quelli su Tilde, i poeti suicidi) decisamente meno

Per il momento apprezzo struttura e humor, devo dire che a volte l’accumulazione di immagini passa dal lirismo alla supercazzola e viceversa but that might be just me. Se riuscissimo ad avere un romanzo postmoderno in cui le donne non si riducono alla guida spirituale del protagonista o ad oggetti sessuali sarei felice, ma non si può avere tutto dalla vita

I don’t believe in book-burning but the chapter on Virgina Woolf is making me reconsider my opinion

I hope Chade Fallstar knows I would die for him on the spot, no questions asked

Hobb is the only writer I know that can bring tear of emotions to my eyes with an insanely powerful scene and then victim-blame a woman for her own rape not even 50 pages after

It’s actually kind of crazy how much Hobb’s writing just. soars the moment the story focuses on court intrigue, interpersonal relationships and completely bypasses young women