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Sigh. Didn't care for this book when I read it, so why read it again?
The usual reasons. Give it another chance. Defend my two stars, or else mine the depths and charm I missed the first time. Refresh my memory for book club discussion.
Find out why two GR friends compared it to the Umbrella Academy, one negatively as in "It's a grimdark ripoff of The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite..."
— Jun 11, 2026 10:03PM
The usual reasons. Give it another chance. Defend my two stars, or else mine the depths and charm I missed the first time. Refresh my memory for book club discussion.
Find out why two GR friends compared it to the Umbrella Academy, one negatively as in "It's a grimdark ripoff of The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite..."
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Bonnie
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Where are the rest of the Library siblings right now? Elsewhere in the Pyramid, outside, hidden in their own magical Libraries?
THERE'S NO MAGIC, STEVE.
— Jun 21, 2026 06:26AM
THERE'S NO MAGIC, STEVE.
Bonnie
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Heh
'The skinny girl doled out Kleenex. Every so often she’d say something like “I just don’t know what he was thinking,” and pat her belly protectively. Erwin guessed that there would be another doomed idiot to take Billy’s place in the trailer park in six months or so.'
— Jun 18, 2026 11:12AM
'The skinny girl doled out Kleenex. Every so often she’d say something like “I just don’t know what he was thinking,” and pat her belly protectively. Erwin guessed that there would be another doomed idiot to take Billy’s place in the trailer park in six months or so.'
Bonnie
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Past time to share the fricking "catalogs"
“Yeah. I wasn’t going to say anything. It’s part of my catalog.” Alicia’s catalog was the far future.
“Well, then don’t—” Peter began.
— Jun 18, 2026 10:46AM
“Yeah. I wasn’t going to say anything. It’s part of my catalog.” Alicia’s catalog was the far future.
“Well, then don’t—” Peter began.
Bonnie
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"Human speech was difficult for him now, even painful—especially when he was fresh out of the woods. Worse, he lacked guile."
— Jun 11, 2026 10:05PM
