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I can’t believe McCarthy put a David Thewlis character in this

Marlowe is such a bad detective he’s so funny

This shit gives me actual nightmares

This is great but I have to take a break lol it’s relentless

Hmm. Not very good so far.

Sometimes you can tell 50 pages into a Dick story that he’s got about 5 different ideas that are going to be competing for the narrative and there’s no way of telling which ones are going to be important

Between the pandemic and the tv show that has the same name there’s been a lot of accidental free press for this novel eh

There’s a story in here that’s like “fellas is it gay to marry a woman who is more butch than you” from like 20 years ago and it’s the kind of thing that if you wrote it this year would be so on the nose

Audiobook read by Andy Serkis is delightful and brings out the bedtime story aspect and Tolkien’s conversational lilt in the story

Collum is like why am I the only person here who did the reading in Arthuriana class

Not read this in like a decade and it’s still so fucking good

I’m to understand that the main character, in this novel based on a comic book by Keanu Reeves, is an immortal supersoldier who looks… exactly like Keanu Reeves?? Mieville clearly having a lot of fun here doing some punch-up work.

Hi I’m William Gibson. Welcome to my short story collection. Here’s a former CIA Dolphin. He’s a heroine addict

Coolest shit I’ve ever seen

Absolutely love the image of Shade sitting down and being forced to listen to this absolute loon prattle on about his made up little country

My “I didn’t kill this guy” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

God she really nails the vibes of this increasingly rancid little island doesn’t she

Me walking around covered in blood holding a huge wad of cash I can’t explain after telling everyone I want to kill my dad: I didn’t kill my dad!

1. I love the insane guy who drinks mercury and talks about cum all the time
2. Wizard sex… big no no?
3. Ogion is the goat (literally)
4. Ged was always cool

1. I fucking love the insane wizard who eats mercury and shits it out and then gets eaten by the earth. Most metal thing le guin has written
2. I love Ogion’s origin story, honestly yeah listening to people and getting a few chickens and goats is the way to go

I can’t believe I’m 2/4 parts through this book and not only have just 2 days passed but the central defining dramatic event of the novel has not happened yet

Under rated how funny Dostoevsky is. The hermit is a great crank. Dmitri is an awful little shithead. Fyodor just lives for causing a scene.

I know Fyodor Karamazov isn’t a good person by any stretch of the imagination but he’s an absolute diva and a total drama queen who loves making a scene

A summer on a tiny island off the coast of Finland could fix me

Sorry she’s not a witch she’s just cool

This woman is a witch right

I’m not saying this is just The Witcher but it’s kind of just The Witcher

I’m reading a literary fiction novel, written around the turn of the century, featuring a pathetic point-of-view academic character who has an affair with one of his students but folks enough about Zadie Smith’s On Beauty / Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections / Ali Smith’s The Accidental