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Very excited to be reading, have wanted to read this for a while. Enjoying quite a lot so far.

13 minutes in and already enjoying. Baldwin was a gift to all of us as a literary master and so much more. Listening as an audiobook and the narrator is doing a wonderful job so far, breathes life into her character.

Grand godmother gave me this book for Christmas last year, I hope she will be pleased when I tell her I’ve read it

Cool

Skipped over the entire “first century with Virginia” chapter because I’m here for Maryland #marylandgang

Sissy Spasek narrating, doing a great job at it

Wondering if maybe Jack London’s cause of death was hearing a woman fart (the way he writes women is a bit ridiculous)

•Wolf Larsen is STRONG. AND. VIRILE. HE IS VERY STRONG. HE IS SO STRONG. Repeated ad nauseam.
•Homoerotic ogling at Wolf Larsen’s beautiful STRONG masculine perfect muscles
•Describes the poop deck as simply “the poop” and I cannot help but to laugh every time
•Repetitive in the description of life as… “yeasty”

Shit just hit the fan on page 63 holy fuck. I love LeGuin

The copy I have is from 1971 and I have noticed a multitude of punctuation mistakes. I imagine that these have been corrected in later editions

This book is fucked. Twisted subject matter, worse than anticipated. It is quite interesting though, and I am enjoying the writing style. Typically I do not like the use of multiple perspectives in the narration of a novel, particularly when they are continuously cycled through, but in this case I am actually finding it interesting and it doesn’t bother me.

Wild to be reading this after Martin Eden and Moby Dick, modern writing is so easy to read

The author is enamored by the phrase “punch-drunk” in this novel

Multiple spelling and punctuation mistakes noticed