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hard to imagine this not being a 5 stars because describing this as audacious and incredible doesn’t cut it but this is is also not a fun book and I’m not “liking” reading this for obvious reasons but everytime I pick this up it’s hard to put down. which is even more of a testament to how fucking good this is.

fellas is it gay to write letters and poems for your "bud" professing "you shattered my cup. you shattered my cage...you brought my spirit to a boil, turned my grapes to wine. you lit a fire to the fragrant wood and body of song in me..." and "lovesick i went to the doctor..he filled a vial with my blood. it beat like my heart. dear shams, only you reveal the wound, the root and the cure."
#historianssaidtheywerepals

admittedly a fair bit of repetition and the interweaving of all the topics don’t feel as evenly split as they could be but so impossibly amazing at how well the author is conveying the depth of what is an incredibly complex matter. just rlly rlly exceptional props. overwhelming to imagine the amount of work that went into this.

FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH FUCK THE BRITISH AND FUCK THE MANUSMRITI LAWS

don't think i fully realised this was essentially a war book when i first got it at a $2 book sale which is not my thing. gave it a 50 page chance but nothing is striking me as interesting so far so i'll have to dnf it!

yeahhhh imma DNF it oh lawd

ykw i was gonna try and finish this book but i actively don't care about any of the characters or events of what's going on in this book nor rlly understand the humour....

the most bread and butter, being exhausted of living as a woman lit fic I’ve read in a while so ofc I’m enjoying it

saying this is a strange concept for a book would be an understatement but i'm locked in. not sure if i'll enjoy this but i'm locked tf in and will attempt to until the halfway mark and then if irdc then dnf it is.

reserved this before i finished we could be rats and ended up disliking it a lot but hoping the lesbian librarians of it all and a different format will do the trick. as they say, 2nd times the charm! so far i'm kinda bored tho

ykw actually finding this quite bland

mother mary comes to me more like MOTTTTHHHEERRRR has come to me (the reservation took so long to come to me)

reading most of these sentences just muttering *you could not teach writing of like this*- truly having the same feeling reading this as when I read giovanni’s room for the first time, how does one come up with sentences as beautiful as these and how does forster do it so well?? definitely a prose that takes timeee to read and demands all attention to figure out what’s going on tho

ykw I’m almost certain I don’t love the writing (lots of repetitive phrases/descriptions, kind of on the nose and retrospective [kind of? probably a bad way to describe it) but that doesn’t make it less captivating to read! does make me think about how I am once again so so so curious about how a reread of ocean vuong ‘on earth’ would go as considered one of my prev fave books

no check, no cause just purely art thievery for the love of the game is crazy work

wtf is bro (twain) even yappin about

my only knowledge of this book prior was that a boat floating down a river was involved and a lot of racial slurs and it still surprises me just how accurate of a description this is of the plot so far

ACAB ALWAYSSSSS

bit of a slow crawl but starting to pick up more now

oh god i really am very tired of this book, i will finish it tho

the male loneliness epidemic sometimes they deserve it (jasmine tea)

also I keep trying to lock in and finish this book before the NY (unlikely) but indyreads I love you so dearly and hate you all at the same time. ty for ur expansive library, ur ereader strikes the anger of Zeus into me

ooft just finished the titular novella and fear this is well written but v boring to me

incredibly unsurprising but still harrowing that 2 of the translated books i've read this year which are considered classics by their respective countries were US-funded propaganda, this one (funded by the US to write anti-communist propaganda) and 'the beautyful ones are not yet born' - ayi kewi armah (work supported by a fund revealed to be a cia front) knowingly and unknowingly. sickandtwisted!