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lu
is 75% done
i was really enjoying this at first but i think it's like 30% too long and should have been a novella. it's also starting to grate on me a little bit in the same way that valeria luiselli's lost children archive did? in the like. way of approaching immigration & especially immigration to the us via the mexican border through like, a poeticized narrative in a way that just feels weirddddd
— Jun 28, 2025 07:43PM
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lu
is 99% done
this started out strong but got old fast - repetitive and i hated the attempted commentary on the atomic bomb (?) and trump at the end. to me the difference between this & enrigue (who i originally compared it to) is enrigue's historical fiction is explicitly satirical & this took itself way too seriously yet had nothing interesting to say. oh colonialism affected the growth of capitalism & the world today? well yeah
— Jun 29, 2025 09:39AM
lu
is 60% done
“what if you were a spanish colonizer and then you time traveled and you saw a train” i mean sure what if … this book is kind of silly
— Jun 26, 2025 08:30PM
lu
is 36% done
i love the narration and i love pseudo-historical fiction… yas… very much in the style of álvaro enrigue & particularly like you dreamed of empires in terms of content
— Jun 24, 2025 04:25PM
