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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

Picked up the ebook from the library’s app cause I need something to keep me awake when I’m up with the baby. Anyway seems like I’ve picked a ya fantasy thing which has very, very heavy The Witcher vibes

Apologies to Mr Vandermeer I thought he’d lost the sauce but he still has it 100%

Hey I know a fix up novel when I see one! You’ve just patched 3 novellas together!

Just have to note somewhere that I once worked in the hotel in Edinburgh where they stay in this novel

I think a visit to Durham Cathedral would fix me

Ms O’Connor do you have some issues with your mother you would like to tell us about

AITA: Just killed my mother (racist) by being too woke

Sorry for thinking this was lame 10 years ago. It’s actually the coolest shit ever