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genuinely impressive that sakavic managed to write a series where almost all the lead male characters are gay and still make a character whose entire personality is Predatory Gay Stereotype. her mind

the best thing about this book is it throws you right into its bullshit. like chapter 1 neil is smoking a cig to remember how he burned his mother's body, coach wymack is #unbothered by the fact that his player is on suicide watch, and andrew is beating neil with a lacrosse stick. book of all time

i'm brain dead from my master's program so what better time to reread this masterpiece

honestly justice for graham

"whatever you say, say nothing" truly is the poem of all time

referring to england as male while ireland has always been seen as female....the themes....

checking out the songs they made for the show as they pop up in the book and oh they went offffff

this guy looooooves bog bodies they are his absolute favourite type of corpse

william s burroughs there was genuinely so much wrong with you like wdym your bestie was a pedophile stalker and you KNEW all the sordid details. also the killing your wife thing but that's not relevant rn

"'Garraty?' It was McVries. He sounded scared . . . surely that was only an illusion?”

me when i'm too stupid to realize someone is in love with me and does not in fact want me to die

why are there so many bob dylan references i have like every bob dylan song stuck in my head now

tfw you're fantasizing about your girlfriend and then all of a sudden your fantasy turns into one about your childhood boy best friend who you got hard in the sandpit with #straight guy things

'"Do you know you’re my god?”
“I know you’re my god.”
Which of us asked? Which answered? Impossible to say. Each one’s words formed in the other’s mouth; we spoke and heard them from within.'
INSANE PEOPLE!!!!!

lowkey the mother is fucking hilarious. she finds out her baby son is in fact not blind and thinks "yet another man conforming to the system 🙄" then years later discovers he's a horrible little incestual freak and is like oh we are soooooo back

“Whether you come as a lover or an executioner, I am ready to receive you.”
holy shit

the fact that everyone in this family is so fucking insane that the house itself is decaying...love

hmm. guys i think we might have to kill all men

i will give it to the haters that the way holden describes women is foul. however he also seems to think he is better than every man in this book as well so maybe it's less about hating women and more about being insane. further study needed for verdict

when i was 15 this book was hilarious and it still is but it's also fucking depressing. his little brother is dead dude

holden explaining the different ways boys at his private school are handsome...now what's all this then

reread because everyone treats this book like it's the male manipulator bible and holden caulfield is the scum of the earth but i loved it when i was 15. seeing if i can clear my boys name here

the chapter on the satanic panic is fucking crazy i'm so fascinated by this bout of mass hysteria

"Shortly after reaching the colony, I fell fatally in love with Louis..Even in his cruellest moments, Louis touched the tenderness in me..." 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

"the only thing really important for you is that you go to an extreme" i <3 my crazy bitch bestie armand who HAS to escalate literally every situation he has ever been in

ARMAND 💗💕💞💓💗💝🩷

"Long after Hughes and Price called an end to their strikes and attempted to reintegrate into society, the nursed old grudges and endlessly replayed their worst wartime abominations. In a sense, they never stopped devouring themselves."

good god

the italian informant having the nickname "the wop" is crazy 😭