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Stories within stories will always being hot to my bookworm heart. Books like Andrew Davidson's THE GARGOYLE, and Ruff's LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, remain favorites for that reason. I came to love the style in King's IT, as that was my first taste of its decadent and varied possibilities, which I then went on to use as a device for my novel THE LAST FREAKSHOW.
— Jan 02, 2026 07:28AM
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The irony of executing people because they refuse to die in your stupid, senseless, unwinnable war is mankind at peak stupidity. Faulkner does a good job getting that point across, though, I will admit.
— Jan 09, 2026 01:31AM
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I finally figured out why I'm not enjoying this. Faulkner doesn't name anybody to allude to the faceless, nameless act of war, how so many parish needlessly, and so many remained unnamed, John and Jane Does, so maimed and mutilated by war to be personless cogs in the crushing machine of mankind's violent pastime. I get it. I simply hate that I don't have names for these people, which is the point, of course.
— Jan 07, 2026 10:55AM
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Out of my three active reads and three inactive ones (yes, I'm currently reading six books) this is my least favorite and the first National Book Award winner I'm not head over hills for. It started wonderfully with a unique premise but the past 150 pages of different vantage points of the same event is wearing me down.
— Jan 05, 2026 11:57PM
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That bit about snarling!
Here, dig it:
"...he not moving yet, immobile and still frozen in the ravelling fading snarl and the faint thin sulfur-stink of burning wool from the skirt of his tunic."
That shit got me bricked up, lawd've mercy!
— Jan 03, 2026 05:25PM
Here, dig it:
"...he not moving yet, immobile and still frozen in the ravelling fading snarl and the faint thin sulfur-stink of burning wool from the skirt of his tunic."
That shit got me bricked up, lawd've mercy!
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Remember for later:
222 and 223 are full of amazing quotes about the fleeting, frail, and limited nature of life, of human experience and existence. No matter how tough and or weak and or smart and or mindless and or lazy and or popular and or powerful, you're still going to die. Dig it
— Jan 03, 2026 03:56PM
222 and 223 are full of amazing quotes about the fleeting, frail, and limited nature of life, of human experience and existence. No matter how tough and or weak and or smart and or mindless and or lazy and or popular and or powerful, you're still going to die. Dig it
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Flashback time! Not even Faulkner can resist the pull of past things 🤣
— Jan 01, 2026 07:45PM
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Next chapter is 80 pages. Longest yet has been 47. This is definitely getting split up. Great book so far, but it can also be exhausting at times.
— Dec 31, 2025 03:33PM
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The metaphor of white phosphorus eating away at the sidcott like war eats away at men has me floored.
— Dec 30, 2025 08:47PM
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This book has such a rad premise:
What would happen if everyone in a war just stopped fighting?
A fable, indeed.
— Dec 29, 2025 10:28AM
What would happen if everyone in a war just stopped fighting?
A fable, indeed.
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Stunning writing. 61 pages wherein next to nothing happens and I wasn't a bit bored? Masterful ahh book.
— Dec 28, 2025 10:04PM
