Oussama’s Reviews > High Fidelity > Status Update

“Birthdays should be suspended in years like this one: there should be a law, of man if not of nature, that you are only allowed to age when things are ticking along nicely. What do I want to be thirty-six for now? I don’t. It’s not convenient. Rob Fleming’s life is frozen at the moment, and he refuses to get any older. Please retain all cards, cakes, and presents for use on another occasion.”

man, this guy is an asshole, but a funny one.

halfway through, and getting to also stop using the timer on my tracking app because it’s infuriating: switching to Apple built-in one.

navigating the main character’s mind is such a struggle, some of it good, some of it very bad.

cruising through it slowly, kinda waiting for some present time progress rather than giving me an expressive description of the past.

the interactions are only getting more interesting as i go, maybe some issues with the main character, more fascinating than problematic.