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This man makes boredom an art form.

Chapter 26: "None of the deads too young to assault. dead-babies on the road-march to the deads’ town"

I've legit reached a chapter titled, "Return the parts of body to the owners; or hired parts of the complete gentleman’s body to be returned"

This took so much patience to get through- and even at 40+ hours (1100+ pages in print) it's only half the story. At least it heated up near the end. Wouldn't recommend to a casual reader- start this only being fully aware of what you're getting into.

Just getting warmed up, this.

I know it's all woke and stuff, but the writing's not all that, is it?

Yay, a Guru Rimpoche cameo!

Me and sci-fi audiobooks: escaping nuclear torpedoes and trying to avert interplanetary wars, all while doing the dishes and mopping the floor. Walter Mitty would be proud.

Me and sci-fi audiobooks: escaping nuclear torpedoes and trying to avert interplanetary wars, all while doing the dishes and mopping the floor. Walter Mitty would be proud.

Itbu-moo creates Nazong Nyu from Fudongthing's bone marrow and puts the two of them on mountain peaks and warns them not to live together. But hormones get the better of them and they get banished from the mountains.

Yahweh creates Eve from Adam's rib and puts the two of them in Eden and warns them not of "eat of the tree of knowledge". But hormones get the better of them and they get banished from Eden.

Hmmm.

Of course the two Japanese characters used the word 'honor' twice in their first page of dialogue. And the white girl rolled her eyes. Of course.

Situations unsuitable to reading Thomas Pynchon:

1. At the car wash when your car is up in the air on the hydraulic lift and the power goes out for over 2 hours and all you can do is watch the poor baby dangle helplessly...

Damn, I wasn't expecting to like this so much!

Listening to the audiobook read by Rosario Dawson. Book's alright but the reading- hotdayum!

Feels more like 900.

Just in case anybody's holding out to see if it gets better, spoiler for you: it doesn't.

They're eating tsampa and momo on an alien planet.

Also, hello again.

Oh well what the hell...

"...a narrow street of high houses like an oblong cistern to hold the fog."

"And might it not be...that we also have appointments to keep in the past, in what has gone before and is for the most part extinguished, and must go there in search of places and people who have some connection with us on the far side of time, so to speak?"

Our concern with history...is a concern with pre-formed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.

The hype, so to speak, is entirely justified.