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dnf @ 100
book designed to piss me off

“and because he had no family or loved ones to mourn his passing, it was Stoner who wet when the casket was lowered, as if that weeping might reduce the loneliness of the last descent. Whether he wept for himself, for the part of history and youth that went down to the earth, or whether for the poor things figure that once kept the man he had loved, he did not know.”

the william-edith failmarriage is really sexy and hot to me. i don’t think john williams intended for that’s

i’m waiting for you to do better

ray nayler… don’t fumble this… u can become the next big name in sci fi w a book like this

(reread) — i think i haven’t heard a lot of people talk about how harari’s text / narrative is based more on conjecture rather than active archeological fact (not bad, really, but important to point out)

this book got me needing a drink and a smoke like a motherfucker

grossman has used the term “organs of justice” a few times to describe the reign of the Party. and the terminology— which i don’t know is a natural turn of phrase in the og text— is so compelling to me. the party is this moving breathing figure, and its organs carry out its justice like it is part of its homeostasis

“I’d be no good anywhere else… my knowledge comes from books with half the pages torn out, with no beginning or end.”

tolstoy of the USSR indeed !

this book comments a lot about putting things off u til you don’t have time to do it anymore. putting something off until you’re faced with the reality that these will be your last. …