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Went into it with some trepidation as I hadn’t loved Wizard of the Crow by him (although my criticisms of it make a lot more sense upon the discovery it was published in serialised form). Well, I shouldn’t have. I am enthralled

I keep forgetting what I’ve read the day before. Doesn’t bode well for the final rating I fear

I’m pretty sure that the mc being a creep is kind of the point, however I’m not. ecstatic about reading from his point of view. Japan’s specific kind of misogyny is particularly jarring to me for some reason

The homoerotic tension between you (a bitter fellow with religious ocd who desperately wants to kill his brother) and your best friend (a strange who convinced you have already been saved by God and therefore are exempt from sinning and who might or might not be Satan)

Gothic authors really have a thing for making Satan the funniest character in their novel…

I’ve been promised serial murders and metafiction with this one. Will be seriously disappointed if this is not the case

Not even Dacre’s obvious racism can take away how insanely hot Satan is in this holy shittt

Victoria and Steerpike would get along like a house on fire…

Most modern literature nowadays wishes it were an over-the-top British gothic novel with some weird conflicting gender policies

This is so silly and goofy omg having a ball

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