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Quietly and strangely fascinating. Other than the archaic words that didn't move me to do much but look them up, the reading was breezy. I'm moving straight on to book two of this high scifi. 4-5 stars.

“When you read Haruki Murakami, you’re reading me, at least ninety-five per cent of the time,” Jay Rubin—

Haven't read any of novels because I've been too busy digging deeper into this. I mean, wtf.

And ~100 pages were cut from the American edition of Hard-Boiled, so we're reading abridged versions as well. wtf.

It's introductions all around, then it's drinks all around. Vidocq and I down some of the Jack. Death sniffs his, sips, and makes a face.

"I don't know if this body likes it."

"You're not supposed to like it. You're just supposed to absorb it into your tissues."

Love PE.

Been wanting to start with Shadow- but managed the second omnibus and haven't gotten around to getting the first. Saw this on my shelf and went for it. Um, Shadow's getting prioritized.

"How's the sober life treating you so far?"

"It's been ten minutes of sheer hell."

"To all the writing teachers who told me to quit.

I'm still not listening."

Slow and steady.

Pausing.