Preamble

iw: 20231214
lu: 20241212

I direct a flow of books to my booklog for posterity, thoroughness, bragging right. Mainly though it provides a framework to structure my thoughts (and feefees) on the them individually, and, through their connections, collectively. Was written initially in TeX, using the glossaries package. However a dearth of (input by me) obsequiously overindulgent in length subtitles led to title duplication, urging a switch to authors rather titles as entries, with their works as subentries. Eventually, that is, quickly, the package was overwhelmed. Likely due to my ineptitude with it, TeX, or large(r) projects. So I had to explore other possibilities: software, formats, conversion software. A terminal spreadsheet programs, visidata or sc-im, and a single .tsv file, easily generable via Perl enough subtition regexs from .tex ones, fit. Only barely working with the data⸻sum the read column; histograms of ratings, authors, titles, and I'm already hitting a wall...⸻, which itself was neither complex, nor numerical, I append rows, and add to the reds (as in past participles), that is adding 1s and rating glyphs. Good but not great, which is why I transferred to my text editor. If one craves bespoke eye candy, nothing beats TeX and elbow grease. But I was neither printing, nor publishing. So why at all use TeX in the first place, dumbo? It's purdy..? Habit, that is, inertia? latex2html and tex4ht were both communal waste conflagrations with and without the aforementioned package. Getting a legible, sane conversion to HTML ain't (or wasn't) easy, let alone pretty. I also have a SQLite database, usable with its PCRE module, but working with SQL directly is just tedious. I don't know if anybody anywhere ever does that.

Regardless, before digitizing, as titles accumulated on the second or third paper-based booklog, lil' ol' me'd decided to *throat clear* PASS RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT UPON THEM! Yeeeah. . . When the shear stress, finger grease, ball sweat, blood, snot, cum, piss n' shiet, and worse still the various vicissitudinous font-size, baseline, slant, justification, indentation and or padding, text direction changes alongside super-, sub-, and microscripting, and the odd, misshapen box all got my goat and then some, then was the still vernixed rating system born. Now less inchoate, more rigid, You'll find it in the table at end. The next section will attempt to explain it.

Three last notes: 1. a month through the ordeal, I'd accidentally sorted a part of the list, hence the first 130 items' alphanumerically ascending order; 2. I don't subscribe to any book or media cataloging system, and, torrenting the majority, I yank and paste what goes into the RSS feed, hence what the uploader deems correct, or find on the web, probably amazon, not the Library of Congress or the Vatican's, or ... I remove inane subtitles à la ^(A|The) (\S+ )?(Novel|Story)\b.*$, overly long ones, and ones I simply dislike; 3. I also prepend titles belonging to a series with, 1, its official name or my take, and, 2, their chronological (by universe not by publication) place within, usually a number, in it.

Regarding taste, objectively, I enjoy the new and or novel: be it knowledge, opinion, argument, viewpoint, thought, or thought patterns; things, my head hasn't so far conjured in itself or others' accurately; and, subjectively, what I consider to be good writing, e.g., Chuck Palahniuk >>> Tolkien (among other false idols for trash people). Omitting textbooks and reference material, genre-wise I indulge in, in no order: extreme horror, horror, gorefest, true crime, suspense, thriller, philosophy, essays/commentary/thoughts, short story anthologies, most science fiction, some translations of 'greats' or classics', books without many characters or gratuitous detail, among others still. I dislike and have little-to-no use for: the trivial and known, the lazy, the stupid, the greedy, the easy and comfortable, the indulgent, the dogmatic, and the predictable; additionally, most series, most anything by a woman, jew-apologetics, war stories, and cringe. Fuck weak-willed, smooth-brained, auto-fellatory, ultimately stupid readers. Namely: /lit/-kiddies; underageds (in the 4chan sense, nonage hasn't much to do with it); females; soyboys; Marxists, and all their prostrating drone ilk on Goodreads, Tumblr, Twitter, FaceBook, literally anything Reddit, any 'left' platform/system/program; any'journalist'; just about any and all social sites, media, fora, and so on.

Also, disregard fuck Russian lit⸻a good >95% of what I've (tried to) read is very horribly predictable, stereotypical, class-based commentary from either direction, or Marxist propagandist waste. Russian 'classics' are overtly overhyped⸻better garbage than other garbage, maybe, disputable, but trash nonetheless. Burn. It. All. All the moreso for Soviet such.

And Japanese lit... . . . Most everything modern (that I have read) is (intolerably) bad⸻flooded in the sterotypes, cliché, which arose post-WW2; with little-to-no redeeming qualities, at least the latter are disparate from American and or European ones. Standouts in quality were written and or published around and shortly after WW2. Could, of course, be a translation thing. Complexity, subtlety, nuance lost. Funnily, that's less so for Korean, and much, much less so for Chinese. Coinkydink, or evidence of stagnant language and culture? Those touting these books don't partake of them in the original either, so it may be an intelligence thing.

As of writing this, 20210417T055800, I've gone through (finished or attempted) some 300 titles starting roughly 20201214. That was when I'd lost my external hard drive with some 1.5 TB of audio files, that I'd been collecting, tagging, organizing, listening to. For eight years. Around 2016 (or '17?) I'd been a music reviewer for a growingly popular metal site; I dropped out due to disagreements with management, but the experience had only intensified my obsession with music. It is-, or rather was.., my second passion in life. I lost, as if, a sizeable chunk of myself that day. Since realization doesn't impale You from the sky, but weedles in over time, it wasn't really a day, but weeks. But that too shall pass. I think... A relevant quote:

Most of my personal library had bitten the street years earlier, in a charming bureaucratic tragedy I like to call the Great Shitcanning. It involved credit card numbers and the storage locker into which I had filed too much of my life for far too long. By the time I learned that the locker was no longer under my name, and its contents had gone for landfill or used-store credit at the hands of employees unknown and untraceable, management of the storage establishment had rotated its usual five or six times and the misdeed was buried in ancient history, which was to say, more than one year ago. Along with my clothes, which had become moth-riddled, and my kitchenware, which had become obsolete, and my desk, which had grown senile from rot, had gone all of my books. I had put them where they could remain safe until I could decide about new living arrangements in another state, and they had been mugged en masse while I was out of reach. To rebuild was impractical, out of the question, absurd. I had already invested effort and love into the books which had died, or been executed, and my heart just wasn't into the idea of recapture until I opened one of those books at the garage sale and the smell hit me.

2c Worth
David J. Schow.

I've not much changed personality-wise, I think⸻I'd merely exchanged habits, similarly to addicts or the problemed traversing cognitive behavioral therapy. I've been cramming the then newly created chasm with the thoughts and opinions of others, as well my subsequent own, with fiction and non-fiction (~65/35 was my ratio around 202107XX), with ideals, knowledge, opinions, arguments, etc. Although I employ some of that, he'd still cringe at my efforts and goings-about. A lovely quote from him and an additional one:

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones, for life is short.

The Art of Literature.
Arthur Schopenhauer.

Reading is a passionate act. If You read a story not just with Your head, but also with Your body and feelings and soul, the way You dance or listen to music, then it becomes Your story. And it can mean infinitely more than any message. It can offer beauty. It can take You through pain. It can signify freedom. And it can mean something different every time You reread it.

A Message About Messages
Ursula K. Le Guin

Another apt one on books and reading is Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, which I recommend. Its expounding overlaps much with my own thoughts on the matter, and gave material for digestion with time. Brian Doyle's Reading in Bed is passion pressurized⸻bibliomania or -philia..?⸻, it, rather he, gets it, gets me, so I feel a camaraderie. Jeff Deutsch's In Praise of Good Bookstores is also a great choice, focusing on the role of bookstores throughout time, however, nixing a quarter, one's left with something resembling the preceding one. A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes fits with these, but boring me greatly while dealing with a worthwhile topic, puts it at a disadvantage. In any case, *clears throats* Read, nigga, read!

I've nobody to talk to regarding books, my opinions, thoughts, so it's rather lonesome when amidst blathering, infantile, predictable children in the bodies of adult Homo sapiens sapiens: be it on 4chan, lainchan, leddit, or the rather uncommon case of real-world reading person. The malignant, human-shaped tumors posting on the internet would necessitate multiple daily, hour-long beatings to begin to comprehending basics of how and why the world functions as it does.
If You have any objections, rebuttals, contributions, remarks, jokes, or would like to talk about any of the below books read and rated or not⸻their authors, titles, subject, and so on⸻, then do drop a line.

My reading is mainly done through my ears and eyes, that is, via audiobooks and pagers, with the speed cranked up to 13 (since mpv taps out at 4x, audiobook with slow readers get treated to ffmpeg -i ${q::=...} -filter:a atempo=2 ${q:r}.2x.mp3, where values greater 2 are achieved multiplicatively via chaining; or to sox ${q} ${w} tempo -s 2.0, where any ol' float'll do) and plain text files, paged. And, if no audiobook (torrent) exists, but a file does, I use a text-to-speech program, namely, flite (or piper). From all tested⸻all my repository's relevant packages save the few relevant snaps and flatpaks, all relevant, from-my-stupid-ass-buildable FOSS, and online services⸻these are best in terms of usability, speed, and output quality. The former I've used most with the below settings and most often the first of the following three voices, which can be downloaded via the make option get_voices: fem, slt, or the built-in kal16. That is, flite -voice /path/to/voice --setf int_f0_target_mean=90 --setf int_f0_target_stddev=35 --setf duration_stretch=$((1./1.95)). The latter one, being released in 2022, is 23 years younger. Using neural networks and vast training sets, it consistently outputs better, while requiring less preprocessing (~60 PCREs, ordered). For some reason, the General American voices I find shite, and latch onto the deeper ones like, as I call 'im, English Alan (flite's fem), or Scottish Alba (piper). Again... So I use the deep male voice, en_GB-alan-low; the (cute) Irish/Scottish one, en_GB-alba-medium; another female one, en_GB-semaine-medium; and en_GB-vctk-medium. Alba, you munchkin, You *Ay-hem*, anyway...

I listen to, and hence 'read', most books at ~700⸺900 words per minute. Less, ~500, if novelty and or (new) information dense, or particularly savory, and I've reined in my wantonness. I try to find, download, convert, process any title I'm listening to. Not always possible, and read along via less FILE, scrolling down rather than leafing along. This bolsters concentration on heavier and or more tedious books. I've not held a physical book in my hands in quite some time. I've little space as is, and even less so spare money for something, I'd argue, should be free. Forbearing completion to savor virginal pleasures with the material happens to me; titles might fall behind or, fuck forbid, be forgotten. A quote from Brian Doyle's essay A Note on How We Slow Down Near the End of a Terrific Book, Reluctant to Leave That Wondrous World from his aforementioned book:

Prosepause, storyslowage, readingreluctability, talewaiting⸻that exquisite sense of deliberately delaying closure, of stretching out the moment, of sipping and savoring and swirling the characters and world and the ambience and milieu around in Your heart before they become, inevitably, as they must, past tense, a book You just read; and while there is a great pleasure in rereading a fine book (after letting enough time pass that You half-forget half of it), it is never quite as salty and stunning a pleasure as the first encounter; ...

Reading in Bed: Brief Headlong Essays About Books and Writers and Reading and Readers
Brian Doyle.

Others still will have reviews or remarks: click the equilateral triangle appearing before the title to open these. Titles are in approximate chronological order of completion or addition, unless being presently read. Lastly, if an entry's fourth column is closer to zero, it is unworthy of my time; and if not quite 1, ending or parts have been glanced over or skipped; if greater than 1, whole or sections multiply read.

With unread visible via the navigation's togglable, rows in alterating shades of gray indicate either canceled future reads with reasoned reluctance mysides to expurgate the entry, or books, that I couldn't and or can't find online and won't shell out the non-pittance or non-scalping for. I don't buy things unrequired for survival. Heh.

What follows is some non-fiction works that are non-literary, that I've liked and or found good. Inappropriate for these to be located within the booklog, so here:

How and why I read what I doI would say, I choose texts that expand my knowledge or knowledge of humans. This is to say, since I don't much read textbooks any longer, that I filter out books, which do not broaden my knowledge, concepts, ideas, and so on of humans. How they think, act in certain (extreme, unnormal) situations. This informs me of human capabilities throughout time and helps me better understand and predict them. If I encounter a writer with a good idea, however encompassed, I'll invistigate their other works as well. Good writing is not to be ignored as well, being rare. This is rather intellectual tickles or fancy, valuable nonetheless. If a source be mentioned in relation to something, it may be worth looking into or wholesale reading, it depends.


Rating system

HistoryBearing but one change and 2⸺4 minor additions, it is able to crudely but sufficiently attribute merits where due. The meaning put behind each symbol should be fairly consistent amount adjacent titles (through time). However, pursuing a reread, the title will be pushed to the forefront as if it were new. I don't forgive and I don't forget: often one infringement is sufficient for expulsion from my mind and hard drive. Authors get blacklisted thusly, as well. Unread books by such or of such series or genre are irrevocably removed from the list. A good mood may dispose me to mercy, i.e., extending an opportunity for redemption (or another chance to disappoint)⸻people can better themselves, being the reasoning. This, however, seldom bodes well for me. Absolutism never goes well for anything, really. I won't publish a listing all embargoed individuals. Anything Marx-, or Hegel-derived would be there though, along is a bunch of armchair philosophers, along with other self-propagating childish memes and dreams. Ratings are given in non-strictly monotonically decreasing order of intensity: the leftmost glyphs constitute greater parts of the overall 'rating' or opinion. Uppercasing serves as an intensifier.

Of the 2 symbols not letters in use. Means 'good' or 'great', if it is the thicker, strengthened glyph, '✔'. Enough so to warrant a(n eventual) reread. I think and would argue that a 'good' example of any art must re-enjoyable by its likers.

mmediocre (up to 'decent'). A rarity, if no filtering was done prior entry. A ~4.0⸺6 ± 1.5 on a 1⸺10 scale. If augmented, add 2 and above and it could be a 'great, but not rereadworthy'. Or something like that. A higher completion rate also contributes to this. To summarize: barely, possibly, or just worth the read, but better exist and You well know it.

ppredictable means I've successfully constructed an accurate enough (>50%) model of (in increasing in difficulty): 1. what characters will do, say, think; narration not exempt; 2. what future text entails; 3. precisely what words, punctuation, and/or wording the writer will use. If everything You want to say on a topic or about a plot (or Your whole existence, when speaking more broadly about humans) can be modeled by my brain, You're wasting my time.

g(C-)overt agenda. Propaganda resides here⸻shallow, pseudo-scientific, juvenilely try-hard, (often easily) refutable, and either moralistic or superciliously pontificating. This should be kept in mind when reading and thinking about material presented, considered from within and without that context. Shilling nests here too. In case You're unsure about some title (or something) for Yourself, ask Yourself⸻Is he (assuming male) trying to sell me anything (cui bono?)? Does he think himself infallible, faultless, flawless right (guru, in the pejorative sense)? Are issues often presented as black and white, that is, as (false) dichotomies (dispensing certainty to comfit)? Is he absolutist (can't think of an example where an absolutist was ever right about his big thing, but if You can, hit me up)? One-sided? Then it likely belongs here; pardon my inability to offer a concise definition rather than examples.

kknown. Implies information, plot, and or characters, known to me. I've a too high tolerance to tripping this since usually there might be something new, and I am merciful at times. Do we chase the dragon? May be a 'w' too, if it be common knowledge/wisdom, and or trivia. On the fence how necessary and hence obsolete. Useful, were I to choose to peruse bookaroos, unfinished, for whatever reason.

ffalse. Publishing anything, You should've done Your homework. So purposefully, demonstrably being fallacious grants one, to misfortunely reuse a mentioned word root, blacklisting, an F, and one-way ticket to the gulag.

wbad writing. Is both sub- and objective: just as You don't have to be a master chef with 40 years experience serving worldly gourmands to know a dish is shite and/or not to Your taste: there exist commonalities between books widely and/or historically regarded as' good'. Beer may be an acquired taste, but it won't be as revolting to the new triers as diarrhea shakes or period pancakes.

bboring. Just. Sleep-inviting, slumber-inducing, snoozefest, or, since I am overcaffeinated, horridly dull. A languorous and or badly paced void of action or change; a tedious litany. MMMNNEEEEEEXT!

aannoying. Itches at my very being; active toleration required.

jI thought it'd be funny, but I don't read much obviously agenda-ed, or judeocentric texts, so it's least used, being also of the last 3 added. Implies peddling of Jewish agenda, apologia, enabling, etc. Or way too much Jewish matters. Like somebody unable or unwilling to let go. Falls through to 'g', mostly obsolete.

?Unsure what exactly I think; or opinion requires more time to crystallize; or the text is or my reaction to it too nebulous; or inexpressible with this rating system.

Reading the descriptions or merely the titles of some 2/3⸺3/4 of audiobookbay's weekly submissions, one notices a trend: women write horrid shit. Correspondingly, a bag of the above bad descriptors in varying degrees, or symbol for Venus. Note: You don't have to be a woman to get this, neither does being one, necessarily impart You this. Women, they rightfully shamefully (attempt to) hide and deceive by using either fore- and middle name abbreviations, that is, initials; or bad and or conspicuous noms de guerre. Sure as fuck ain't I taking the ~1e-5 chance of tripping over a good book written by a Barbara, Emily, Jessica, Jemima, or Janet, or one named 'The Irresistible Miss Peppiwell', famous for elongating her shitstreak with Scandalous House of Calydon, Book 2. Mind You, more often than not, these shit tier potboilers are series running into the tens and sometimes twenties. More examples. Perhaps I prefer self-contained things, with thought and meaning invested to drawn out, inanities. Omitting chick lit and its male (airport novels, or worse, series like Jack Reacher) and teenage (flat, cheap power fantasies featuring adolescents) counterparts, this still holds. Likely due to the failure of American public education in 'the West', and or some combination of the success of Marxism and its derivatives (to self-propagate whilst impoverishing constituencies), government cronyism (falls into former), perceived monopolies in education by public, unscrupulous and short-sighted power and money grabs (again, Marxism). They can compose good stuff, there is both historical and present-day evidence of this⸻they should just stick to what they're good at not attempt to compete with men in unsuitable disciplines. Same goes for men⸻don't fucking write gay, furry, tranny, trap shit. Don't write (bad) power fantasies (where nothing happens), LitRPGs (anime's isekai genre put to paper), or series when You can't even spell Your damn name without shame.
For fuck's sake.

GlyphMeaning
Rating system summary
aannoying
bboring
ccringe
ffalse
gagenda
kknown
ppredictable
wbad writing
all of the aboveha-ha
mmediocre⸺decent
✓✔good⸺great
jJewish
?undecided

Booklog

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TitleAuthorRatingRead
A Head Full of GhostsPaul Tremblay1.00
A Journal of the Plague YearDaniel DefoeB0.15
A Little History of the WorldE.H. GombrichKAW0.15
A Lush and Seething HellJohn Hornor JacobsGAb0.10
A Medicine for MelancholyRay BradburyB0.05
A Noise DownstairsLinwood Barclay1.00
A Small TownThomas PerryGwa0.15
A Tap on the WindowLinwood Barclay1.00
A Touch of HappyAndrew Kanago1.00
A Very Stable GeniusPhilip Rucker, Carol Leonnigwgfap0.10
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish SecretsGregg Olsenmb0.30
AirshipsBarry Hannahga0.05
Alone in the Fortress of the BearsBruce L. Nelsonbap0.10
American Female Serial KillersBrian Berrymb0.50
American PredatorMaureen Callahan1.00
AngrynomicsEric Lonergan, Mark BlythmBa0.95
Autopsy: Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in AfricaRyan Blumenthal1.00
Bad Moon RisingSherrilyn Kenyon♀apmwg0.90
Big Boys Don't CryTom Kratmanb0.05
Blind FaithJoe McGinnissb1.00
Buried Beneath the Boarding HouseRyan Greenmb0.65
By Night In ChileRoberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (tr.)1.00
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern WorldMichael PollanmK1.00
CaliphateTom Kratman1.00
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt AbolitionCollective DebtGWAf0.05
Cannibal CreekJon Athan✓M1.00
Carmine the Snake: Carmine Persico and His Murderous Mafia FamilyFrank DiMatteo, Michael Bensonb0.15
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the SixtiesTom O'Neill, Dan PiepenbringBa0.15
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving MurdersBilly JensenGbf0.10
Conan the Cimmerian: The Coming of Conan the CimmerianRobert E. Howardbw0.05
Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent WomanTammy Malm✓b1.00
Cool Hand LukeDonn PearceBm0.15
Coyote Blue

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moorebm0.20
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Joseph Mennmkap0.80
Dawn of the Dead

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

George A. Romerobaw0.10
Deadbreak

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jorge Sanchez1.00
Deadly Force

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Misty EvansGf0.10
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mara Leveritt♀apb0.15
Distracted and Defeated: The Rulers and the Ruled

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mike Bhangukwag0.33
Donald Trump v. the United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Michael S. SchmidtGFW0.05
Dying Days 7

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Armand Rosamiliagap0.20
Eddie Flynn: 5 - Fifty-fifty

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Steve Cavanagh✔✓1.00
Elevator Pitch

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Linwood Barclay1.00
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Guy WinchKWf0.15
Tales from the Gas Station: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack Townsend✓a1.00
Tales from the Gas Station: 2

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack Townsend✓map1.00
Tales from the Gas Station: 2.5xmas

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack Townsendmap1.00
Tales from the Gas Station: 3

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack TownsendAP1.00
F*ck Whales: Also Families, Poetry, Folksy Wisdom and You

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

George 'Maddox' Ouzounian✓KPMj0.50
Fat Vampire: 1 - Fat Vampire

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Johnny B. Truant✓m1.00
Fat Vampire: 2 - Tastes Like Chicken

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Johnny B. Truantm1.00
Fat Vampire: 3 - All You Can Eat

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Johnny B. Truantmp1.00
Fat Vampire: 4 - Harder Better Fatter Stronger

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Johnny B. Truantpam1.00
Fat Vampire: 5 - Fatpocalypse

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Johnny B. TruantPA0.80
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moore1.10
Flu: 1 - Flu

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Wayne Simmons1.00
Flu: 2 - Fever

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Wayne Simmonsbm0.50
Fool

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moore1.00
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Dan CrenshawPBAGfm0.33
Deadbreak

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jorge Sanchezcpa0.15
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 1 - The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew HayesM1.00
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 2 - Undeath and Taxes

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew HayesM1.00
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 3 - Bloody Acquisitions

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew Hayespam1.00
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 4 - The Fangs of Freelance

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew HayesPAwm1.00
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 5 - Deadly Assessments

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew HayesPAW0.33
Frozen In Ice

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Armand Rosamiliamp0.30
Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Daniel Hardcastlecwa0.10
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James Gleick✓M1.00
Gotti's Boys: The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Anthony M. DeStefanob0.15
Grandfather's House

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jon Athan1.00
Hackers and Painters

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Grahambawp0.15
Hartmann the Anarchist: The Doom of the Great City

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Edward Douglas FawcettM✓1.00
Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Michael Bazzellkm0.35
Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Elaine Shannonba0.50
Ice Station

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Matthew ReillyWba0.05
Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jonathan Levi, Emma Frenchmb1.00
Isolation

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

David Moodym1.00
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maikenm1.00
Kokoro

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Natsume Soseki, Edwin McClellan (tr.)♀apBAP0.50
Listen to Me Now

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

A.I. Nasserm1.00
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John T. Cacioppo, William PatrickWbk0.10
Lovesick

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jon Athan1.00
Magic Ex Libris: 1 - Libriomancer

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jim C. HinesAPw0.75
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James L. Swansonba0.20
Manifest

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Theodore J. Kaczynski1.00
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Frenchm1.00
Midnight Son

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaummw0.25
Mark Genevich: 2 - No Sleep Til Wonderland

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Tremblaym✓1.00
Sammy and the Cheese: 1 - Noir

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moore1.00
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Peter Houlahanbw0.10
Norwegian Fairies

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Librivoxb0.20
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

the Onion1.00
Pale Fire

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Vladimir Nabokovmb1.00
Parents Who Killed Their Children

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

R.J. Parkermb1.00
Peeling the Onion

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Günter Grassbm0.20
Perfume

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Patrick Süskind1.00
Pine Cove: 1 - Practical Demonkeeping

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moorem1.00
Pine Cove: 3 - The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Christopher Moore1.00
Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Alex PattakosKWAf0.15
Robert Pickton: The True Story of the Pig Farmer Killer

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Chris Swinneybm1.00
Screaming Eagles: 1 - The Front

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Timothy W. Longagpb0.10
Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

David MametBAgj0.15
Secret Slave

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Anna Ruston1.00
Sex Says

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Max Monroebaw0.05
Skeleton in Space: 1 - Histaff

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Andries Louwsbapw0.20
Small Sacrifices

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Ann Rule♀apbap0.10
Survivor Song

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Tremblaypbma0.20
Tales of the Madman Underground

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John Barnes1.00
The Abominable

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Dan Simmons1.00
The Anime Trope System: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Alvin AtwaterCWPa1.00
The Anime Trope System: 2

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Alvin AtwaterCWPA0.05
The Cabin at the End of the World

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Tremblay✓m1.00
The Candy Cards: The Shocking Story of Dean Corll

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Robert Brownm1.00
The Case Against Education

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Bryan CaplanKa0.25
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends who Shaped an Age

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Leo Damroschbm0.10
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

David Simonba0.10
The Curse of Lono

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Hunter S. Thompson1.00
The Devil All the Time

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Donald Ray PollockB0.10
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Paul Kengormb1.00
The Haunting of Alma Fielding

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Kate Summerscale♀apBw0.05
The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Nikki Six1.00
The Jokes of Nafsreddin Hodja: The World Is Not a Tragedy, But a Comedy

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Molla NasreddinmKPa0.75
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jennifer Toth♀apgab0.10
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski1.00
The Roach

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Rhett C. BrunopA0.21
The Sea Was Angry

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Armand Rosamiliampa0.30
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Bethany McLean1.00
The Stench of Honolulu

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack Handey1.00
The Terror

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Dan Simmons1.00
The Toughest Prison of All: The True Story of Bank Robbery, Prison Escapes, and the Search for Love on the Outside

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Floyd C. Forsbergm1.00
The Unconsoled

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Kazuo IshiguroB0.10
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Galeottimbp0.75
The Woman in Apartment 49

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Ross Armstrongb0.15
Thirteen Stories

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jonathan Simsbm0.15
This Dark Earth

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John Hornor Jacobsw0.05
Timothy: 1 - Timothy

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Tufo1.00
Timothy: 2 - Tim

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Tufo✓M1.00
Timothy: 3 - Sliced, Diced and Cubed

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark TufoMp1.00
Torchwood Coffee

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James Gossbap0.75
Under the Trestle

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Ron Peterson Jr.bm0.50
Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Beverly Lowry♀apw0.20
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Lulu MillerWB♀ap0.10
Worldship Files: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Erik Schubachw0.01
Zomblog: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

T.W. BrownBW0.20
Think Again

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Adam GrantkAf0.10
Super Powereds: Year 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew HayespAC0.25
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Roger McNameeGPb0.33
The Case of the Haunted Haunted House

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Drew Hayesapw0.15
People Mover

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John David Cardm1.00
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Matthew Walkermkfa0.90
On Bullshit

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Harry G. FrankfurtmB1.00
Batman: Dead White

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John ShirleyA0.05
A Shrouded World: 1 - Whistlers

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Tufom1.00
A Shrouded World: 2 - Atlantis

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Tufompa1.00
A Shrouded World: 3 - Convergence

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark TufoAP0.25
Blue Ant: 1 - Pattern Recognition

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

William GibsonM1.00
Blue Ant: 2 - Spook Country

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

William Gibsonbam0.35
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jeffery Deaver, Lindwood Barclay, Rhys Bowenm1.00
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Logan Jacobsm1.00
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 2

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Logan Jacobsmcp1.00
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 3

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Logan Jacobsmpc1.00
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 4

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Logan JacobspCm1.00
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Chuck Palahniuk1.00
Ocean Grave

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Matt Serafini✓M1.00
The Breach

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Nick Cutter1.00
The Servant

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Robin MaughamM✓b1.00
The Deep

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Nick Cutter1.00
No-No Boy

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

John OkadaMap1.00
Batavias Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mike Dashmb0.15
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Adam Kay✓Mj1.00
This Is Going to Hurt: Diaries of a Junior Doctor

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Adam Kay✓MApj0.75
Horus Rising

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Dan AbnettAP1.20
Fulgrim

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Graham McNeillAP0.15
In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Luke Smitherd1.00
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 2

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Luke Smitherd✓Ma1.00
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 3

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Luke Smitherd✓M1.00
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 4

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Luke Smitherd1.00
113 Minutes

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James Pattersonapc0.25
The ReWired Brain: Free Yourself of Negative Behaviors and Release Your Best Self

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Ski Chiltonka0.50
The Curse of Yig

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

H.P. Lovecraftpam1.00
Never See Them Again

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

M. Whilliam Phelpsm1.00
Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Darius Hinksbwac0.10
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 5 - Lorgar: Bearer of the Word

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Gav ThorpewcaB0.10
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 6 - Fulgrim

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Josh ReynoldsB0.25
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 7 - Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

David GuymerB0.15
Animal Kingdom

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Iain Rob Wrightmwp0.88
Dirk Gently: 1 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Douglas Adams✔✓a1.00
Underground the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Haruki Murakamibw0.05
Rip-Off!

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

V.A.abw0.20
The Bleed

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Tufo, Chris Philbrook, David Moodywm0.10
The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Kevin DonovanB0.10
The Scarlet Plague

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Jack London1.00
Youth

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Isaac Asimovm1.00
Wings of Sorrow

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Iain Rob Wrightmcwp0.40
The Moor

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Sam Haysomb0.25
The Scarifyers: Dinner Date with Death

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Roland Moorebm0.45
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Rysard Legutko1.00
The Toilet of Doom: 1

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Michael Lawrencemb0.50
Pink Madness

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

James Hillman✓m1.00
Capital and Ideology

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Thomas PikettyFJG0.10
Dear Mr. M

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Herman Koch1.00
Choke

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Chuck Palahniuk✔✔2.00
Haunted

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Chuck Palahniuk✔✔2.00
Running from the Dead

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mike Knowlesm0.38
Space Taxis

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Adam FroshJG0.05
Bone White

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Ronald Malfibaw0.05
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Harold Schechterwma0.60
Satellite Love

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Genki Fergusonmap0.15
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories from Japan

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Rebecca Otowa♀pba0.15
Alien: Into Charybdis

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Alex Whitewap0.02
Dark Ride

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Iain Rob Wrightbw0.17
Capital Realism: Is There No Alternative?

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Mark Fisher1.00
The Fly-By Nights

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Brian Lumleybw0.18
The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales Of Mystery and the Macabre

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

W.W. Jacobsmbw0.15
Khai of Khem

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Brian LumleyM✓1.00
Tantamount

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Blaine Lee Pardoe, Victoria R. Hester♀ap0.02
Perfect People

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Peter JamesmwaP0.32
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Michael Malice✓MPak1.00
The Savage Dead

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Joe McKinneywb0.05
Charlatans

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

Robin CookwB♀0.02
Overruled!

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

V.A., Hank Davis (ed.)mwb0.25
Pendragon: 06 - The Rivers of Zadaa

The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet

D.J. MacHalemp1.00
Pendragon: 07 - The Quillan Games

Of the series' books, this one hits closest home, and hardest. When I read this in, say, 2009⸺10, I just thought of Walmart, not knowing about the shitfest that is

D.J. MacHaleMp1.00
Cat's Karma

Of the series' books, this one hits closest home, and hardest. When I read this in, say, 2009⸺10, I just thought of Walmart, not knowing about the shitfest that is

Christopher Moorem1.00
Less Than Zero

Of the series' books, this one hits closest home, and hardest. When I read this in, say, 2009⸺10, I just thought of Walmart, not knowing about the shitfest that is

Bret Easton EllisM✓1.00
Dear NHS

Of the series' books, this one hits closest home, and hardest. When I read this in, say, 2009⸺10, I just thought of Walmart, not knowing about the shitfest that is

Adam Kayagwj0.01
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarkets

Just great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient.

Benjamin Lorr✔✓1.00
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Just great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient.

Neil Postman✔✓1.00
The Naked Truth: Using Shameless Honesty to Enhance Your Confidence, Connections and Integrity

Just great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient.

Daniel MunroMKP✓0.85
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Just great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient.

Thomas LigottiM✓k1.00
Darkness at Noon

Just real good. Top candidate for a screenplay.

Arthur Koestler1.00
The Weird and the Eerie

Just real good. Top candidate for a screenplay.

Mark Fisherm1.00
You Will Love What You Have Killed

Just real good. Top candidate for a screenplay.

Kevin LambertbwmA0.05
Find You First

Just real good. Top candidate for a screenplay.

Linwood Barclay1.00
F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School

Just real good. Top candidate for a screenplay.

The CaptainmAPJ0.35
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

Describes in too much detail big pharma's shenanigans.

Gary GreenbergmWB1.00
Heart of Darkness

Slow. More so in a good rather than bad way. Not much happens. Good descriptions and 'feel', or 'vibes', as the zoomies and those shilling to them call it. Style over substance, to me, at least.

Joseph Conrad1.00
High Rise

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

J.G. Ballard1.00
Cannibal Reign

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

Thomas KoloniarW0.05
Hater

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

David Moodywb0.01
MIND: A Unified Theory of Life and Intelligence

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

Frank T. Vertosick Jr.Fp0.10
The Road to Revolution: The Complete and Authorized Unabomber

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

Theodore J. Kaczynski1.00
The Keepers of Limbo: The Range: 01

Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities.

Yuri Ulengovcw0.01
The Consolation of Philosophy

Stuff I figured out alone before graduation (though I'm not from the 6. century nobility). You could say, it's a good read if you've never thought and or are under 18. Also, fuck all your god shit.

Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusMKPAFG0.90
The Consolations of Philosophy

Immature, self-centered, superfluous examples and stories. Yo, this ain't a bio. kys.

Alain de Bottonmaf0.01
Why Liberalism Failed

Great read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time.

Patrick J. Deneen✓Mw1.00
The Wicked and the Damned

Great read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time.

Josh Reynolds, David Annandale, Phil KellyPwb0.05
The Chaos Space Marines Audio Collection

Great read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time.

V.A.mpb1.00
Hold Up the Sky

Honest-to-fuck, (prolly CCP-sponsored/backed) chink scifi. Propaganda seeps thru, and is felt constantly. People 'act' unlike evolved creatures, or bogstandard hoomans.

Cixin Liubmwp0.15
Time Spike

Timeline mixing⸻new to me, wanna see it explored more, supposedly alt. history is the genre. Although I'd love to read about the 'bad' parasites winning, instead of the 'good' ones. Rather unsaleable, and paperweights don't pay the bills, nor are nutritious.

Eric Flint, Marilyn Kosmatka✓M1.00
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

Nice layman's dive into the shitsea that is psychiatry and, exponentially so, the now defunct psychosurgery. Often over-detailed but great nonetheless.

Jack El-HaiM1.00
Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

Bemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating.

Slavoj ZizekFGpa1.00
Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost

Bemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating.

Slavoj ZizekFGpa1.00
Planet of Slums

Bemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating.

Mike Davism1.00
Alpha and Omega

Story revolved around jews... Inclined on boring you and wasting your time.

Harry Turtledovejb0.10
Give Me Back My Legions!: A Novel of Ancient Rome

To be honest, I should've given this on more time, however, too many names, and I don't care who's who to whom in Rome. Implying, any writer or historian worth a grain of salt would write about household 'struggles', and boring shit, meanwhile⸻actual tribal genocide, burning and pillaging, but nah, weddings and brother-in-law 'n shit. Fuck this dude. Alt. history my ass.

Harry Turtledoveb0.20
The Dictionary of Demons

To be honest, I should've given this on more time, however, too many names, and I don't care who's who to whom in Rome. Implying, any writer or historian worth a grain of salt would write about household 'struggles', and boring shit, meanwhile⸻actual tribal genocide, burning and pillaging, but nah, weddings and brother-in-law 'n shit. Fuck this dude. Alt. history my ass.

M. Belangerbm0.01
Against Nature (A Rebous)

I'd read this, not listened through it, years ago. What had motivated me, I cannot remember. But given it took me ~1.5h of my usual speedy listening, before I caught the drift: Hey, don't I know you? The book is so devoid of meaning and content, I barely remembered anything about it. Because there was nothing to remember. Well, fuck you, Huysmans.

Joris-Karl Huysmansapb0.20
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

I'd read this, not listened through it, years ago. What had motivated me, I cannot remember. But given it took me ~1.5h of my usual speedy listening, before I caught the drift: Hey, don't I know you? The book is so devoid of meaning and content, I barely remembered anything about it. Because there was nothing to remember. Well, fuck you, Huysmans.

Harold Schechter✓Map1.00
The Rational Male: 1 - The Rational Male

Braindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist.

Rollo TomassiKafc0.30
The Rational Male: 2 - Preventive Medicine

Braindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist.

Rollo Tomassikafc0.10
The Rational Male: 3 - Positive Masculinity

Braindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist.

Rollo Tomassikafc0.10
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business

Hadn't seen/been shown the economic face of matters alongside the political/cultural one, this book is a good introduction. I'll have to reread it, since I've already forgotten whether or not it makes any predictions (other the obvious ones), or just describes history- ya no, the easy part.

Stephen R. Soukup1.00
Unfu*k Yourself

Hadn't seen/been shown the economic face of matters alongside the political/cultural one, this book is a good introduction. I'll have to reread it, since I've already forgotten whether or not it makes any predictions (other the obvious ones), or just describes history- ya no, the easy part.

Gary John BishopKP0.25
Secrets in the Cellar

Repetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie.

John Glatt✓mw1.00
The Caller of the Black

Repetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie.

Brian Lumleymb0.20
The Art of Invisibility

Repetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie.

Kevin MitnickkMa1.00
Labyrinth of Ice the Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

Repetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie.

Buddy Levymbp0.38
Out of Mesopotamia

Perhaps my first modern Middle Eastern novel. Not half bad, predominantly caused by the foreignness of (civil) war in one's own country, the not jungle|city|space|high-tech|low-tech setting, just plain ol' Toyota Hilux and domestic and foreign terrorism against all people you deem unworthy. Boring whenever the interpersonal, or rather man-woman?, or 'civil'? or merely familiar?, occurs. The rest is fine by me.

Salar AbdohM1.00
In the Shadow of Gold

Perhaps my first modern Middle Eastern novel. Not half bad, predominantly caused by the foreignness of (civil) war in one's own country, the not jungle|city|space|high-tech|low-tech setting, just plain ol' Toyota Hilux and domestic and foreign terrorism against all people you deem unworthy. Boring whenever the interpersonal, or rather man-woman?, or 'civil'? or merely familiar?, occurs. The rest is fine by me.

Michael Kenneth Smithb0.11
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm

Boring, bad writing, wantonly fallacious.

Richard Estep, Robert Gravescb0.33
An Old Captivity

Written in 1940s by airplane engie, one the is first novels (I think), it's enjoyable, pacing could -be better in spots, be less foretelling overall, the last 20-30% were albeit decent, very predictable. Still, nice for a one-time read. The next novel will dictate the subsequents' lives on my drive.

Nevil ShuteM1.00
Evil Is a Matter of Perspective

The woman author massacred beforehand mediocrities in such a show of force, it whet my critique's edge such that within the ~1' I'd given each subsequent story, not a piece was left. Shit authors. To be expected of a woman, they shouldn't write about what they cannot comprehend- pick something you know, like knitting or emotional bullshit, chick lit and woman power fantasies⸻lit. 90% of audiobookbay's inventory.

V.A.bw0.20
Ishmael

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Daniel Quinn✔g1.00
Games: 1 - New Year

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Games: 2 - Brutality

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Games: 3 - Donny

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Games: 4 - Maze

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Games: 5 - New Guy

Introduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site...

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Games: 6 - Game Over

Did the 13h abook of all six, dude apparently shits these babies out like a queen bee. Very little depth, likely self-published, couldn't easily find reading material to go along. He thinks in series; each introducing new element(s) or character(s), un-shy about 'gore', albeit tame and shallow compared to Chuck Palahniuk, not descriptive, yet not verbal/action-based. Immature as a writer, imo- maybe that's his niche.

Sea Caummisarm1.00
Rabbit, Run

Like(d) the style, but the main goon riots, has no redeeming qualities, neither do any of the non-elderly characters. Could be a manual on how to be shit human. It's like all the nigger, small American city, actually probably all ethnicities given there're several follow-up novels, fit into their stereotypes, the ones prescribing bad qualities, mostly. Author blacklisted.

John Updike✓MA0.80
Hunger

Fuckin' A. My kinda of kino. Second read.

Knut Hamsun1.00
Rich Dad Poor Dad

Rather condescending writing, catering to either bigger audience under publisher pressure, or actual malice, albeit the rich dad was supposedly the bad guy. Platitudes, garnished with too-detailed-to-be-real example from 'real life'. Nothing you can't figure out yourself before hitting 18, practicing it is another matter- and that's nothing to do with books. Also, contains falsehoods, flawed argumentation, and false premises. Of zero intellectual worth to >90-IQlets.

Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon LechterKaWf0.20
A Most Remarkable Creature

Rather condescending writing, catering to either bigger audience under publisher pressure, or actual malice, albeit the rich dad was supposedly the bad guy. Platitudes, garnished with too-detailed-to-be-real example from 'real life'. Nothing you can't figure out yourself before hitting 18, practicing it is another matter- and that's nothing to do with books. Also, contains falsehoods, flawed argumentation, and false premises. Of zero intellectual worth to >90-IQlets.

Jonathan Meiburgmba0.50
The Lost World

Abook, actually greatly done. Lovely writing, humorous and witty, some new words for myself, very believable and consistent. Although I know criticisms of his main work, s.h., perhaps from seasoned, hard-boiled crime novelists and the like, but this, the first of 5 novels w/ prof. challenger, essentially a series, this books seems like an excellent package.

Arthur Conan Doyle1.00
Snow

Nothing within (so far) suggests Nobel-prize-worthiness. Occurs in modern day Nowheresville, Turkey with its current issues. Boring though, and slow to boot. These 30% I've read could've'n a 1⸺2 paragraphs, action-wise, aaand the description or narration isn't worth my time.

Orhan Pamukmb0.30
Poison Belt

Second book of Doyle's Prof. Challenger series. Abook again, and this time I didn't feel like opening up the text, inferior to the preceding one- the ending is heralded before act one is half done. Appreciable epilogue though- some discussion around the topic of ether and additional anti-nuc.war propaganda story.

Arthur Conan DoyleMp1.00
Gotta Get Theroux This

If you've seen his documentaries, his mannerisms, the way he conducts himself, the question he asks and how he goes about everything, you've read some this book, at least, everything up to his 20s and career start in the US. Smart guy, but indoctrinated leftie in need of subjugation to harsh truths.

Loius Therouxmkpba1.00
Dead Man Can't Complain and Other Stories

Collection of short stories but in a unprecedented fashion, I liked each and every one. Either I've only ever had bad luck starting stories, or the stories just are original in concepts, content, and feature good writing. Glad I gave the guy a shot, I'm dl'ing his other works hoping quality wasn't sacrificed for depth and longitude.

Peter Clines1.00
The Art of Literature

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Arthur Schopenhauer1.00
Story of B

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Daniel QuinnG0.90
The Last Exiles

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Ann Shinwb0.09
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Timothy Fryem1.00
Ex-Heroes: 1 - Ex-Heroes

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Peter Clinesb0.15
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe

Based and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike.

Peter Clinesb0.05
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Gives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law.

Ryan HolidayMJ1.00
Zero to One

Gives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law.

Peter Thielmb0.40
Cruel Doubt

Gives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law.

Joe McGinnissmp1.00
The Killer Inside Me

Gives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law.

Jim Thompsonac0.05
Serge Storms: 24 - Tropic of Stupid

Kinda hard to follow, too many characters, some too zany, or predictable in a stereotypical fashion. Writing from the future, serves me right for picking up a long-running series. Dude's wringing it dry as bone. I'll give the firstborn a try in due time.

Tim Dorseym0.60
The Coldest Case

Kinda hard to follow, too many characters, some too zany, or predictable in a stereotypical fashion. Writing from the future, serves me right for picking up a long-running series. Dude's wringing it dry as bone. I'll give the firstborn a try in due time.

James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, Ryan Silbertw0.10
The Chimes

Kinda hard to follow, too many characters, some too zany, or predictable in a stereotypical fashion. Writing from the future, serves me right for picking up a long-running series. Dude's wringing it dry as bone. I'll give the firstborn a try in due time.

Charles Dickens?0.30
Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle

Kinda hard to follow, too many characters, some too zany, or predictable in a stereotypical fashion. Writing from the future, serves me right for picking up a long-running series. Dude's wringing it dry as bone. I'll give the firstborn a try in due time.

Clare HunterB0.12
Paradox Bound

I do love a time-traveling novel that's also closed off, that loops into itself, explaining more through different timelines, sets of eyes and eyes. This one also has nice ideas about the American dream, as if it were something physical, making myth out of the founding fathers' creation. If it'd employed better writing, less foreseeable or predictable- I'm always a paragraph ahead of where I'm at-, it could've been a full checkmark.

Peter ClinesM1.00
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition

The book gets better, and better, and better. Maybe the hostility from 'Fortunately the Milk' has withered (maybe I should give it another go..?). It weaves together strands from various cultures, geographies, and times into an American story told from the settler on the continent far before the country's founding. Like Under the Volcano, it has a dreamlike, continuous, or stream-of-consciousness-like quality that I quite fancy, and similarly simultaneously find it hard to put down, and myself unwilling to go faster to avoid completion, to prolong virginal self-indulgences.

Neil Gaiman1.00
Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

The stream of consciousness in this is gorgeous, it never stops. Even more so than Under the Volcano maybe. The matter of fact delivery, the similarities with the real world both make this extremely enjoyable and re-analyzable.

Mark Leyner1.00
Nightmares in Ecstasy

Great body horror short stories. That is all.

Brendan Vidito1.00
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Nice to hear what some had long been suspecting, me too albeit I've didn't care as much, but was nonetheless fascinated about the length people would and do go to for money and or power. Just power, actually, all things that be exchanged for in the book can be seen as power within some domain⸻financial, political, personal, etc. Personally, my first big insight into media manipulation, deception, and play on all team for gain. What ticked me off that he's a giant fucking jew, is how his unscrupulousness and unruefulness. That he sees James O'Keefe is fraudulent⸻this was most damning. He becomes the exact same person he claims to be short- and long-conning, the misinformed reader, the blogger. Showing no evidence, no sources, nothing but spurious claims, (same could be said about handing various other American '''news''' outlets compliments such as 'credible'). He's is no better than these people. And he's a long, long walk from doing anything of worth.

Ryan HolidayMKJf0.85
Ego Is the Enemy

Auto-fellatory.

Ryan HolidayJfba0.05
Dark Fantasies

Written in England during the 80s when cheap, explicit gore was all the rage (was it any good tho?), this gentleman's collection of what he call 'dark fantasy', offers a jab back. Were it you cup of tea, you might call it decisive blow, but the 7 first stories within did not grasp me. Dark or creepy, or spooky, they are not. Quaint, sure. Tolerable, even not too boring or predictable, just not enough happening to warrant the time currently with so much on the reading table.

V.A., Chris Morgan (ed.)mb0.28
Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch

Hard to believe this guy's a comedian, because this books is a good joke you can hear once, and it's good. And then it's repeated til the second book cover. It functions more like a friend one know well, whose stories all bare a certain tinge, nuance, flavor, that you enjoy, but recognize from afar and whose end you can spell out.

Jim NortonMp1.00
Empire of the Sun

Too mild. More historical through a child's eyes, than good fiction. Too sentimental, or human, or what would be a better way of putting? Normal, predictable? Were the war, world, characters all fictional, I'd've not cared and dropped it before the hour-mark.

J.G. Ballardmb1.00
Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat, Not a Sour Puss

Too mild. More historical through a child's eyes, than good fiction. Too sentimental, or human, or what would be a better way of putting? Normal, predictable? Were the war, world, characters all fictional, I'd've not cared and dropped it before the hour-mark.

Pam Johnson-Bennett♀ap0.01
Certainty

I really could not bring myself to caring about anybody or anything within the first 1.5h of the audiobook. It's boring and bland.

Victor Bevineb0.18
Stillness Is the Key

I really could not bring myself to caring about anybody or anything within the first 1.5h of the audiobook. It's boring and bland.

Ryan HolidayKam0.20
The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

If you were paid attention at the beginning, you'd know how it ends. I hate it when true crime novels-, I had to, had to look back to see who that other fucking author was who did this-, IT WAS JOHN GLATT; FUCK YOU, JOHN GLATT!⸻, He did this with

A Confederacy of Dunces

From the foreword already I'm hooked by the irrelevant to the book backstory of the author. From the first paragraph, it's a style of writing that regales me. Witty, good storytelling. This text is phonetically thickens speech with nearly everything embedded in an accent⸻here, that of New Orleans, Louisiana. Understandable unlike 1996's Trainspotting movie, without ever being/feeling cryptic (to me), it provides style, an aesthetically enjoyable stuffing to the plot. All characters are memorable, distinct, colorful, but not unbelievable.
Very fucking based.

Now, this passage, albeit written in the 80s, demonstrates the type of thinking, at least superficially, present among modern-day lefties. Although satirical, somehow the author had had enough either fore- or insight, or had already witness this in his time. The ideas should have already taken root in American higher education then.

...As the magnificence and originality of my worldview became explicit through conversation, the Minkoff minx began attacking me on all levels, even kicking me under the table rather vigorously at one point. I both fascinated and confused her; in short, I was too much for her. The parochialism of the ghettos of Gotham had not prepared her for the uniqueness of Your Working Boy. Myrna, you see, believed that all humans living south and west of the Hudson River were illiterate cowboys or⸻even worse⸻White Protestants, a class of humans who as a group specialized in ignorance, cruelty, and torture. (I don't wish to especially defend White Protestants; I am not too fond of them myself.) Soon Myrna's brutal social manner had driven my courtiers from the table, and we were left alone, all cold coffee and hot words. When I failed to agree with her braying and babbling, she told me that I was obviously anti-Semitic. Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. She dug into her large black valise and assaulted me (almost literally) with greasy copies of Men and Masses and Now! and Broken Barricades and Surge and Revulsion and various manifestos and pamphlets pertaining to organizations of which she was a most active member: Students for Liberty, Youth for Sex, The Black Muslims, Friends of Latvia, Children for Miscegenation, The White Citizens' Councils.

I like to laugh from a non-human perspective, because from a human one, it's just sad, disappoint, suboptimal, grotesque. I'd like to laugh knowing I've never stated or opined (only to not be heard or regarded) and turned out wrong. I'd like to, but I'd rather be wrong and have humanity be better for it, others, the ones I interact with. But no. I'm right, but for my own sake, and I mourn for society every waking moment in the presence of others.
ANOTHER ONE:

'Maybe your boy went to school too long,' Mr. Robichaux advised. 'They got plenty communiss in colleges.'

..Anyways, it's a great read, it's reread-worthy. No wonder it's a cult classic of southern US.

John Kennedy Toole✔✔1.00
Value(s): Building a Better World for All

From the foreword already I'm hooked by the irrelevant to the book backstory of the author. From the first paragraph, it's a style of writing that regales me. Witty, good storytelling. This text is phonetically thickens speech with nearly everything embedded in an accent⸻here, that of New Orleans, Louisiana. Understandable unlike 1996's Trainspotting movie, without ever being/feeling cryptic (to me), it provides style, an aesthetically enjoyable stuffing to the plot. All characters are memorable, distinct, colorful, but not unbelievable.
Very fucking based.

Now, this passage, albeit written in the 80s, demonstrates the type of thinking, at least superficially, present among modern-day lefties. Although satirical, somehow the author had had enough either fore- or insight, or had already witness this in his time. The ideas should have already taken root in American higher education then.

...As the magnificence and originality of my worldview became explicit through conversation, the Minkoff minx began attacking me on all levels, even kicking me under the table rather vigorously at one point. I both fascinated and confused her; in short, I was too much for her. The parochialism of the ghettos of Gotham had not prepared her for the uniqueness of Your Working Boy. Myrna, you see, believed that all humans living south and west of the Hudson River were illiterate cowboys or⸻even worse⸻White Protestants, a class of humans who as a group specialized in ignorance, cruelty, and torture. (I don't wish to especially defend White Protestants; I am not too fond of them myself.) Soon Myrna's brutal social manner had driven my courtiers from the table, and we were left alone, all cold coffee and hot words. When I failed to agree with her braying and babbling, she told me that I was obviously anti-Semitic. Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. She dug into her large black valise and assaulted me (almost literally) with greasy copies of Men and Masses and Now! and Broken Barricades and Surge and Revulsion and various manifestos and pamphlets pertaining to organizations of which she was a most active member: Students for Liberty, Youth for Sex, The Black Muslims, Friends of Latvia, Children for Miscegenation, The White Citizens' Councils.

I like to laugh from a non-human perspective, because from a human one, it's just sad, disappoint, suboptimal, grotesque. I'd like to laugh knowing I've never stated or opined (only to not be heard or regarded) and turned out wrong. I'd like to, but I'd rather be wrong and have humanity be better for it, others, the ones I interact with. But no. I'm right, but for my own sake, and I mourn for society every waking moment in the presence of others.
ANOTHER ONE:

'Maybe your boy went to school too long,' Mr. Robichaux advised. 'They got plenty communiss in colleges.'

..Anyways, it's a great read, it's reread-worthy. No wonder it's a cult classic of southern US.

Mark Carneyfg0.05
Children of Time

Decent concept and dull storytelling at the (audiobook's) length of 16h, or ~2e5 words⸻uh, yeah, nah, cunt, I'm good. Not fucking waiting for more sub-par plot delivery. MNEEEEXT!

Adrian Tchaikovskybm0.42
An Ancient Enemy

No fucking clue what the fuck is supposed to be happening. With zero on-boarding, hearing strange names (jacobarian..?), etc. is off-putting. I thought alt. history was supposed to deal with real historical things, not made up ones. Regardless, without the text in front of me⸻and I sure as shit wasn't giving it a chance with that delivery⸻, big no. NEXT!

Olan Thorensenb0.05
Mirrorshades

First story had this nice passage:

I rushed into the nearest newsstand and gathered up as much as I could find on the petroleum crisis and the nuclear energy hazard. I'd just decided to plane ticket for New York. 'Helluva world we live in, huh?' The proprietor was a thin black man with bad teeth and an obvious wig. I nodded, fishing in my jeans for change, anxious to find a park bench, where I could submerge myself in hard evidence of the human near-dystopia we live in. 'But it could be worse, huh?' 'That's right', I said. 'Or even worse, it could be perfect.'

That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no.

V.A., Bruce Sterling (ed.)b0.53
Destroying Angel

First story had this nice passage:

I rushed into the nearest newsstand and gathered up as much as I could find on the petroleum crisis and the nuclear energy hazard. I'd just decided to plane ticket for New York. 'Helluva world we live in, huh?' The proprietor was a thin black man with bad teeth and an obvious wig. I nodded, fishing in my jeans for change, anxious to find a park bench, where I could submerge myself in hard evidence of the human near-dystopia we live in. 'But it could be worse, huh?' 'That's right', I said. 'Or even worse, it could be perfect.'

That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no.

Richard Paul Russob0.15
My India

First story had this nice passage:

I rushed into the nearest newsstand and gathered up as much as I could find on the petroleum crisis and the nuclear energy hazard. I'd just decided to plane ticket for New York. 'Helluva world we live in, huh?' The proprietor was a thin black man with bad teeth and an obvious wig. I nodded, fishing in my jeans for change, anxious to find a park bench, where I could submerge myself in hard evidence of the human near-dystopia we live in. 'But it could be worse, huh?' 'That's right', I said. 'Or even worse, it could be perfect.'

That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no.

Jim CorbettB0.08
The Troop

Third novel of Cutter I've read. This one, like

The Emperor's Consciousness: 1 - Aspected

Third novel of Cutter I've read. This one, like

Dead Inside

Often tries for dry delivery, but fails more often than not. The feel, or texture, the thought patterns are somehow wrong. Not uncanny, they just don't make sense. Maybe it's trying for gore/horror comedy..? However, nice little passage somewhat make up for it:

Self-awareness really doesn't mean shit though. It is, in fact, little more than psychological masturbation, and has about the same net worth as a wad of semen in a handful of crumpled tissues. No cockroach ever desired not to be a cockroach just because it knew it was a cockroach. ... The two living girls I've been with never came at all, and my own climax was nothing memorable. The faint pleasure paling in comparison to the ecstasy I feel when I ejaculate into a dead woman. The dead have no expectations. There's no pressure for you to make them feel anything. I copulate with corpses largely because it is all about me. About the meeting of my needs.

Note⸻this is the most modern-day, brainwashed, cock-carousel, pseudo-feminist woman statement. Men, if they feel like it, take, they don't comment about it, they don't write in their journal, blog, diary, talk to their friend about it and lead month-long inane discussions.

... Shooting thousands of doomed children in the general direction of her dead and useless ovaries. Another benefit of my little fetish⸻no condom, no problem. I may very well be the most fertile man on the planet, but all my lovers are equipped with the best birth control the world can offer.

Halfway though, I'd say the biggest problem is characters are shallowly explored. Again, an attempt is made at dry delivery, but it comes off as... off. A lot more side-points, -experiences could've been explored similar to to Victor in

Dirty Thirty

A cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time.

Asa Akirambp0.50
In Defense of Looting

A cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time.

Vicky OsterweilGF0.01
The Law of Lines

A cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time.

Hye-Young Pyun♀b0.08
The Only Good Indians

For a horror/thriller/suspense novel⸻it's shit. I should've trusted my instinct, my disgust, revulsion at Stephen King's endorsement of this mediocre trash. Cut out three quarters, make it punchy, do something, for fuck's sake. Reads more like a a stereotypical midlife crisis⸻flirtation at work, bumps in marriage, trouble with family/heritage, increasing paranoia about meaningless, irrelevant shit. Pace is frozen solid compared to where it should be. And the reader? Bored, gets a middle finger. NEXT!

Stephen Graham Jonesbm0.48
Gods of the Dark Web

For a horror/thriller/suspense novel⸻it's shit. I should've trusted my instinct, my disgust, revulsion at Stephen King's endorsement of this mediocre trash. Cut out three quarters, make it punchy, do something, for fuck's sake. Reads more like a a stereotypical midlife crisis⸻flirtation at work, bumps in marriage, trouble with family/heritage, increasing paranoia about meaningless, irrelevant shit. Pace is frozen solid compared to where it should be. And the reader? Bored, gets a middle finger. NEXT!

Lucas Mangumw0.50
A Man

Another boring Jap novel. Most characters are predictable. Up to the quarter that I'd reached, unexpected only was the main release in act 1. Beginning pages are way to rocky. Actual ground is missing, not 'rocky', if I were to continue with a metaphor of a vehicle driving you to the all the essential info of act 1. Also, way too many characters and plot points or lines introduced in too short a time span. I'm not decoding bad writing. Even when I eventually caught up to roughly what was happening, it's still falls flat. I could wait for 'the good stuff', or actually get a good book.

Keichiro Hiranobwm0.25
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders

My kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import.

Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs.

I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences.

Dennis C. Rasmussen✓M1.00
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulerable, and What We Can Do About It

My kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import.

Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs.

I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences.

Marc Goodmank0.50
Epicurus of Samos: His Philosophy and Life: All the Principal Source Texts

My kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import.

Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs.

I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences.

Hiram CrespoM✓w1.00
Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto

Nice critique and analysis of environmental problems and problems with environmentalists. Although it does get rather floaty after ~2/3, and becoming increasing irrational, petulant, and the type of person she was hating on beforehand.

Jenny PriceMgf0.90
Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption

Dangerously red-pilled.
Meticulous explanation of connections between key players in various high-level fields⸻us news, us politics, china, among others. The author does not know the actual nature of the virus, but at least he skirts around the issue, not paying it more than it's due. Little-to-no else was blatantly false.

Alex Marlow1.00
Fortunately the Milk

For children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying.

Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too.

Neil Gaiman✓M1.50
Night of the Mannequins

For children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying.

Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too.

Stephen Graham Joneswm0.50
Global Jihad: A Brief History

For children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying.

Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too.

Glenn E. Robinsonbm1.00
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

Reading this at first, I was struck by new-ness of the ideas, or narrative presented. I looking up ol' Rodney in audiobookbay to find that, lo and and behold, dude writes exclusively about religion. Fine, maybe the complete selection elucidates the connection with religion⸻and it does. A journalist turned sociologist, currently some distinguished prof. of it at some uni or religion-oriented institute, he writes about rel. diverse topics, mostly human ones regarding history, Christianity, etc.: from wiki 'Stark has written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome.'

My only gripe is regarding assumptions for the emergence of 'science' in the Middle Ages being due to Christianity, Catholicism specifically. I grant you, no other society with or without religion succeeded in isolation to getting to it. But, just because I wore a mauve sweater today and it didn't rain on me, doesn't mean that: it didn't rain elsewhere, it would have rained on me had the material or color of the sweater been different, or the article, or had I gone bare-chested. An affirmative conclusion from a negative premise. It wouldn't be prudent, nor expedient, to takes thousands of modern-day hunter-gatherers, and observe them enough time in similar enough conditions to allow for a development of religions, and a progression of that development⸻as he points out, Christianity is the (perhaps?) only orthodox (i.e., based on correct interpretation/opining) religion, whereas others are orthoprax (i.e., based on correct execution of rites and practices): Judaism, Islam, Taoism, and even pseudo-religions such as whatever passes for Marxism these days. It is logically fallacious to assert that it is the sole contribution of Christianity. That it played a big role, however, crucial even, is substantiated sufficiently.

The book is consistent through and through, covers history from around the 8th to the 18th century without unnecessary jumps; topics are chaptered well, and these in turn⸻well sectioned.

Assuming his references are in check (and I've no reason to assume they're not), this book deprives wanton 'debunkers' and agenda-pushers, most of which he himself points to whenever relevant. Well written, presented. I will also check out some of the titles considered heavily biased, and demonstrably false by ol' Rodney 'ere.

Rodney Stark✔✓1.00
Zombies, More Recent Dead

Reading this at first, I was struck by new-ness of the ideas, or narrative presented. I looking up ol' Rodney in audiobookbay to find that, lo and and behold, dude writes exclusively about religion. Fine, maybe the complete selection elucidates the connection with religion⸻and it does. A journalist turned sociologist, currently some distinguished prof. of it at some uni or religion-oriented institute, he writes about rel. diverse topics, mostly human ones regarding history, Christianity, etc.: from wiki 'Stark has written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome.'

My only gripe is regarding assumptions for the emergence of 'science' in the Middle Ages being due to Christianity, Catholicism specifically. I grant you, no other society with or without religion succeeded in isolation to getting to it. But, just because I wore a mauve sweater today and it didn't rain on me, doesn't mean that: it didn't rain elsewhere, it would have rained on me had the material or color of the sweater been different, or the article, or had I gone bare-chested. An affirmative conclusion from a negative premise. It wouldn't be prudent, nor expedient, to takes thousands of modern-day hunter-gatherers, and observe them enough time in similar enough conditions to allow for a development of religions, and a progression of that development⸻as he points out, Christianity is the (perhaps?) only orthodox (i.e., based on correct interpretation/opining) religion, whereas others are orthoprax (i.e., based on correct execution of rites and practices): Judaism, Islam, Taoism, and even pseudo-religions such as whatever passes for Marxism these days. It is logically fallacious to assert that it is the sole contribution of Christianity. That it played a big role, however, crucial even, is substantiated sufficiently.

The book is consistent through and through, covers history from around the 8th to the 18th century without unnecessary jumps; topics are chaptered well, and these in turn⸻well sectioned.

Assuming his references are in check (and I've no reason to assume they're not), this book deprives wanton 'debunkers' and agenda-pushers, most of which he himself points to whenever relevant. Well written, presented. I will also check out some of the titles considered heavily biased, and demonstrably false by ol' Rodney 'ere.

V.A., Paula Guran (ed.)Bw0.09
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

I'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment.

Mark Leyner, Billy GoldbergK1.00
Hitler: Anecdotes, Myths and Lies

I'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment.

Jose Delgadobm0.45
Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America

I'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment.

Donald J. Trumpkm0.85
Devil's Chaplain

Fucking snoozefest, atrocious writing style. At least put the good stuff up front, for fuck's sake. Waste of time.

Richard Dawkinsmwba0.25
Books Do Furnish a Life

Faux condescension, the wording of every fucking sentence, annoys to the bone. Nothing of worth is said. This is below trash. And so is Dawkins regardless of all his previous work.

Richard DawkinsAkpf0.13
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

T.R.A.S.H.

One of these days, I'm gonna stop considering all self-help books altogether, same as anything by a woman, or in a series. And this guy's supposed to be fucking smart? Smart in extracting money from trash humans stupid enough to forfeit their money for this garbage. NEEEEEEEEEXT!!

Nassim Nicholas TalebwAPK0.20
The Dead Husband

Supposed psychological thriller writer. Yeah, and I'm a tram. I gave it, like, 5 chances, and it never fails to disappoint. Regarding the rating, as they say, if it walks like a duck, and talks a duck...

Carter Wilson0.02
Third Annual Best Horror Stories of the Year

Supposed psychological thriller writer. Yeah, and I'm a tram. I gave it, like, 5 chances, and it never fails to disappoint. Regarding the rating, as they say, if it walks like a duck, and talks a duck...

V.A., Orson Scott Card (ed.), Martin H. Greenberg (ed.)m0.65
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

The first quarter-to-third (or -half) of this book is extremely weak compared to Kahneman's other books, if I recall correctly (I'm not rereading that shit, yo.). To anyone who's had a statistics class, paid attention, and done the work, this is wholly superfluous. Is the intended audience really stupid people? Uneducated people incapable of autonomous thought? Children..? Similar applies to the quotes appended to every chapter. These often occur within paragraphs of their 'source', and if you've working memory at all, you quotes to half a page back are pure filler. ... which is my next gripe. So far, character count can but cut by half without loss of information or narrative flow.

Next gripe: unnecessary terminology⸻noise this, noise that⸻, and obfuscation of already perfectly clear concepts from statistics by changing established terms can or does confuse anybody who's ever dealt with them.

Lastly, there's is a slight not full woke, but clearly leftie-drone drag about race and sex that continues reappearing. My stupid nigga, stereotypes exist for very good reasons: because they are very often, on the whole, true or truisms. And whatever cards one's dealt at the start of life, one should blame, whine, and finger-point, but do whatever's in one's capabilities. Not all X arguments are platitudes as much as stereotypes, but therein you see the double standards (again). Also uses female pronouns for general and neuter cases (you, one, person)⸻I fucking hate this shit so fucking much.

Also fuck you stupid cunts for referred to the 'covid' thing as a pandemic, something objectively false by definitions of that word up to 2020, when the shills at WHO changed it.

Hm, anyway, it also struck me finally, namely that I'm a superforecaster (kinda?):

What makes superforecasters so good? Consistent with our argument in chapter 18, we could reasonably speculate that they are unusually intelligent. That speculation is not wrong. On GMA tests, the superforecasters do better than the average volunteer in the Good Judgment Project (and the average volunteer is significantly above the national average). But the difference isn't all that large, and many volunteers who do extremely well on intelligence tests do not qualify as superforecasters. Apart from general intelligence, we could reasonably expect that superforecasters are unusually good with numbers. And they are. But their real advantage is not their talent at math; it is their ease in thinking analytically and probabilistically. Consider superforecasters' willingness and ability to structure and disaggregate problems. Rather than form a holistic judgment about a big geopolitical question (whether a nation will leave the European Union, whether a war will break out in a particular place, whether a public official will be assassinated), they break it up into its component parts. They ask, “What would it take for the answer to be yes? What would it take for the answer to be no?” Instead of offering a gut feeling or some kind of global hunch, they ask and try to answer an assortment of subsidiary questions. Superforecasters also excel at taking the outside view, and they care a lot about base rates. As explained for the Gambardi problem in chapter 13, before you focus on the specifics of Gambardi's profile, it helps to know the probability that the average CEO will be fired or quit in the next two years. Superforecasters systematically look for base rates. Asked whether the next year will bring an armed clash between China and Vietnam over a border dispute, superforecasters do not focus only or immediately on whether China and Vietnam are getting along right now. They might have an intuition about this, in light of the news and analysis they have read. But they know that their intuition about one event is generally not a good guide. Instead they start by looking for a base rate: they ask how often past border disputes have escalated into armed clashes. If such clashes are rare, superforecasters will begin by incorporating that fact and only then turn to the details of the China–Vietnam situation. In short, what distinguishes the superforecasters isn't their sheer intelligence; it's how they released in a final version but that is endlessly used, analyzed, and improved. Tetlock finds that “the strongest predictor of rising into the ranks of superforecasters is perpetual beta, the degree to which one is committed to belief updating and self-improvement.” As he puts it, “What makes them so good is less what they are than what they do⸻the hard work of research, the careful thought and self-criticism, the gathering and synthesizing of other perspectives, the granular judgments and relentless updating.” They like a particular cycle of thinking: “try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again.”

To give the book its due: it is a nice reminder of what one must always keep in mind. Albeit, having a paper copy of

Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

Same old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss.

James Clearpaw0.20
Shedrow

Same old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss.

Dean DeLukebm0.29
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Same old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss.

Donald RobertsonKP0.02
The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe

Same old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss.

Arvind Ethan DavidM1.00
The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America!

Over-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read.

Andrew Shaffer✓Mg1.00
Mapping the Interior

Over-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read.

Stephen Graham Jonesb0.37
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Over-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read.

Kevin MitnickApkjm0.48
Robert Hunter: 08 - The Caller

Found this in my dir whilst looking for some fiction, something to forfeit my mind to in pleasure. Welp. this Brazilian-born strange dude self-described as having been a criminal behaviorist/psychologist, been a 'musician' with famour glam rock bands (I've never read up, heard up, seen, experienced person describe themselves as such, rather they choose the more apt instrument-er/ist) and somehow settled from the US to London, of all shit places.., to become a (thriller) author.

His major work is 10 novels with an L.A. detective Robert Hunter in the 'ultra violent crimes' division. There are no clear ties, or feelings of missing something, regardless that this is the 8. one. All in all, is was alright or good. Two flaws in the writing which haven't been fixed (and I'm hoping aren't intensified retroactively) are that: 1. faux drama⸻a very toned down version of Indian soap opera reaction shots and utterances that are distracting, non-plot-developmental and inconsequential, and, worst of all, jarringly out of character (for the main guy, at least); 2. 65 chapters, really? slightly redundant with former point, but they're structured like soap episodes, all but the epilogue end on suspenseful moments, that I wouldn't always call cliff-hangers, not even author's teasing. Annoying if anything, because you don't get all the information at the same time, or even in the same chapter. This staggering messes with suspense-release on > tracks, which I'd call bad.

All that being said, given how shit the competition most often is, it a good thriller, or crime-novel. Gore good.

Chris Carter1.00
Robert Hunter: 01 - The Crucifix Killer

Thinking back on the past 7 books, one, that is, I really does see the author's progression. The plot is good, connected, and complex enough to still be enjoyable without too much concentration on details (with are provided wholesale only when author decides⸻the exact react why I hate A.C.D.'s Sherlock series), albeit, being a thriller you'd expect as much, Contains a lot more amateurish aspects, such as over-the-top/over-dramatized dialogue and moments; still has the same reaction shots from Indo soaps, and simpler language use. Unless it's a chronologically consistent series, there's an ~13a gap between 00 and 01, which is unfilled. The main support also is much more of a comic relief, it's as if author wanted to be a soap scriptwriter, I don't get it. It's unappealing, distracting, and doesn't further anything. Looking forward to the 2⸺7 & 9⸺10.

Chris Carter1.00
Robert Hunter: .5 - The Hunter

Thinking back on the past 7 books, one, that is, I really does see the author's progression. The plot is good, connected, and complex enough to still be enjoyable without too much concentration on details (with are provided wholesale only when author decides⸻the exact react why I hate A.C.D.'s Sherlock series), albeit, being a thriller you'd expect as much, Contains a lot more amateurish aspects, such as over-the-top/over-dramatized dialogue and moments; still has the same reaction shots from Indo soaps, and simpler language use. Unless it's a chronologically consistent series, there's an ~13a gap between 00 and 01, which is unfilled. The main support also is much more of a comic relief, it's as if author wanted to be a soap scriptwriter, I don't get it. It's unappealing, distracting, and doesn't further anything. Looking forward to the 2⸺7 & 9⸺10.

Chris CarterM1.00
Robert Hunter: 02 - The Executioner

Compared to 01, much more complicated plot, and even though I paid more attention, the amount of characters (and you know author hand out only distinct, unique, hate-your-parents sort of names to facilitate remembrance) is ~4⸺5x that of 01. A lot less cringe, but the over-dramatized things still bug me. Given their presence in 08, it's likely a feature, not a bug, as Todd would say. I don't do good with history (dates), and names, much better with ideas, abstractions, actions, rather than descriptions. I think the following characterization will persist in all titles, even without the series: filler à la Indian reaction shots, that is, exclamations (on the other hand, it makes it more cheesy, which sometimes works in its favor, like the new bitch boss of the police department with cliché overflow), a few catch-phrases that all three so far read have used 2⸺4 times, and something that probably has a name but I don't know it, namely, more or less '*overenthusiastic trailer/announcer voice: from an early age, this genius was abused (echo abused), he suffered trauma (..-ma.. -ma), and now, he's back for revenge!'⸻copy-paste with different extrema for for the main, support, and all villains. But it worth it, a nice plot. T h i c c.

Chris Carter1.00
Robert Hunter: 03 - The Night Stalker

Compared to 02, less interwoven plot, less characters and fewer plot points to resolve. Sadly, less gore and violence, too. Nonetheless, worth a one-read, enjoyable.

Chris Carter✓M1.00
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

I'd long thought about the American left (the European, British, and Australian follow suit with some delay) as cryptonazies and cryptofascists. I just didn't know how deep this shit ran. And how far back. Fucking hell. It is thoroughly disgusting what humans will do to each other.

This books provides the herd leftists' perspective in its best light⸻already abysmally wan⸻, and of some unbiased or intellectually honest, morally uncorrupt scientists/academicians/historians that just do their job. It's not hard to see the vying for power, control over others and the lying, cheating, stealing, covering up, minimizing and apologizing for used to achieve American cryptonazies and cryptofascists have utilizing across all playing fields when you see the results alongside the whole of of historical evidence, and the many side-by-side comparisons.

Hypocrisy somehow always materializes (within humans) to gunk up any and all human endeavors, true; I take that as a given. But mistakenly assumed not total incompetence, mischievousness, and hypocrisy of the left. That they had ≥one good deed, something of merit. Yeah, well, nope. The prominents play for power only. 'Career politicians' you could say, those exist on all sides, true, but truer of than than of others.

The book is rather neutral, the support I've noticed in the author's words or wording is that of Christianity (he does have a 1 or 2 books about why it's great regarding America..).

There has yet to be a single (more than a capitalist counterpart) successful state in the last 5000 years as far as I know. They degenerate, an intricate network of corruption is woven from the very top to the very bottom, lone cogs suffer, smaller groups suffer, the honest and hardworking suffer, the state rots, putrifies, and eventually dissolves, because excesses of the pyramid atop the pyramid cannot be upheld, but until then 'might is right', possibly beyond that as well, so long as the stupid unyieldingly stupid children are provided bread and circuses.

On point, not too breath-y, and based.

Dinesh D'Souza✔✔1.00
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

A deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in

The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

A deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in

The Future of Us

A deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

A deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in

Detour

A deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in

Robert Hunter: 04 - The Death Sculptor

Up til ~2/3 was weak, not as deep as the previously read ones. A lot less suspense and release throughout, and, say, 3⸺5s of the mystery/plot see the Sun rapid-fire within 2 chapters around the 90%. Less gore. Again, no character development as if, the first book was strongest there. You can make the case as with other detective novels, that cases happen separately, as if in their own Everett universe. Shorter too..

Chris CarterM✓1.00
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left

This book was referenced in

Robert Hunter: 05 - One By One

The slope from 3 to 4 was downward, and steep, but tolerable. This jump was in the same direction and of the same magnitude. We're not quite vertical, but it's pretty mediocre. Explanation repetitions, long wind, and the same issue plaguing 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Another unused cast of characters. Too little action, gore, which are the only reasons I liked this series, I've not had any exposure to gore novels, maybe I should research and find some.

Chris Carterm1.00
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization

The slope from 3 to 4 was downward, and steep, but tolerable. This jump was in the same direction and of the same magnitude. We're not quite vertical, but it's pretty mediocre. Explanation repetitions, long wind, and the same issue plaguing 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Another unused cast of characters. Too little action, gore, which are the only reasons I liked this series, I've not had any exposure to gore novels, maybe I should research and find some.

Roland Ennosbm0.52
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

I like the jabs, and jokes. But I fucking hate jewry, and religious anything. The jesus char getting everything served on a silver platter, whilst whilst playing innocent is too annoying, to infuriating. These people should be shot. Given the current state of affairs at home, in the EU and US, there is little-to-no reason to tolerate this fuckery.

Great writer, bad topic, or too much worship. Fuck him for this. First ch moore book I couldn't finish, ffs. I'm mad.ss

Christopher Mooreja✓0.17
Tales from Outer Suburbia

I like the jabs, and jokes. But I fucking hate jewry, and religious anything. The jesus char getting everything served on a silver platter, whilst whilst playing innocent is too annoying, to infuriating. These people should be shot. Given the current state of affairs at home, in the EU and US, there is little-to-no reason to tolerate this fuckery.

Great writer, bad topic, or too much worship. Fuck him for this. First ch moore book I couldn't finish, ffs. I'm mad.ss

Shaun Tana0.10
Robert Hunter: 06 - An Evil Mind

Major game step-up. The last two were weak, as if written in financial need and or quick succession. What I dislike about this one is the incongruence within all significant characters: being professional, then amateurish and or childish; being omniprescient, then⸻surprised; keeping their cool, then losing it. Robert Hunter is not believable, but the killer, the antag, my nigga is not perfect, but very close. Very nicely constructed. As much as I hated all the predictable interactions between the 'good' toons with and within themselves, and their surroundings, 3⸺5-fold more was my pleasure in scenes with antag in control, with thing going according to plan, with the stupid fucks incapable of independent thought. Putting aside plot armor, hypocrisy (again), and inconsistent morality: it is extremely кино. Tad disappointing ending though. We need more authors with ball to kill off main characters, and let the 'bad' guys win. Not great for a running series most likely.

Chris Carter✔✔1.00
Apocalypse and Chill

Major game step-up. The last two were weak, as if written in financial need and or quick succession. What I dislike about this one is the incongruence within all significant characters: being professional, then amateurish and or childish; being omniprescient, then⸻surprised; keeping their cool, then losing it. Robert Hunter is not believable, but the killer, the antag, my nigga is not perfect, but very close. Very nicely constructed. As much as I hated all the predictable interactions between the 'good' toons with and within themselves, and their surroundings, 3⸺5-fold more was my pleasure in scenes with antag in control, with thing going according to plan, with the stupid fucks incapable of independent thought. Putting aside plot armor, hypocrisy (again), and inconsistent morality: it is extremely кино. Tad disappointing ending though. We need more authors with ball to kill off main characters, and let the 'bad' guys win. Not great for a running series most likely.

Neil Bimbeaucw0.30
Version Zero

Nice idea, but either aimed at children/teens and or very naively and amateurishly executed with a rather palpable left-wing bias. From main to support to accidental, all characters are shallow and predictable. Also has false allegations, and cringe-worthy, unwarranted jabs at Trump, the US 'right', and the older parts of internet culture. I'd bet top dollar Yoon is either very old or younger than myself, in either case both uninvolved and very unknowledgeable. He might have good intentions, but that's worth fuck all, esp. so when the both means and results are mediocre at best meanwhile disseminating unhelpful, baby ideas and motivations, and (re-)stating falsehoods. NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXT!!

David YoonmGfap0.41
How the West Won

This book was publish 7 years after The Victory of Reason. Omitting some 30⸺40%, it often is an argument-for-argument and word-for-word rehash of it, especially parts 1 and 2. It is a broader topic, correspondingly accessing more resources, citations and references spanning a greater period. I'm still wary of the Christian bias, however well-substantiated and -referenced. I'm always wary..

Rodney Stark✔K1.00
Zeno's Conscience

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

Italo Svevoabw0.15
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

John Gierachb0.09
Standing in a River Waving a Stick

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

John Gierachm0.71
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

Nina Teicholz✔✔1.00
Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

Donald Trump Jr.M0.89
Refugees: A Very Short Introduction

I hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce.

Gil Loescherwb0.15
Robert Hunter: 07 - I Am Death

This was a treat, and it even had a bit of what 8 does. Great plot, and very nice and subtle twist(s) at the very end. Satisfying.

Chris Carter1.00
Clown World Chronicles: The Human Primate in the 21st Century

When one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day.

Vince McLeodFG0.05
The Mood Elevator

When one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day.

Larry E. Sennwa0.05
Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

When one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day.

Harold Schechtermb0.75
The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party

Cui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..?

David Horowitz, Richard Poe1.00
Bad Signs

Cui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..?

R.J. Elloryb0.05
New Found Land: The Long Haul

Cui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..?

Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewartaw0.04
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

Cui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..?

Eric Rauchwaybk0.09
Travis Chase: 1 - The Breach

Cui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..?

Patrick LeeM1.00
Wasp Factory

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

Iain BanksMaw1.00
Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

David C. CatlingM1.00
The Mysterious Stanger and Other Stories

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

Mark Twain✓M1.00
Travis Chase: 2 - Ghost Country

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

Patrick LeeM1.00
Kilgore and Co.

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

Edo Van Belkomaw0.12
Titus Andronicus

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

William Shakespeareaw0.10
American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

E. Fuller Torreyb0.34
Travis Chase: 3 - Deep Sky

Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans.
Great closing act, though.

Patrick LeeM1.00
Kill Someone

Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life).

The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in

The Executive Order

Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life).

The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in

The Enemy Within

Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life).

The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in

Down with Colonialism!

Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life).

The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in

The Lost Weekend

Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life).

The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in

David Kepesh: 1 - The Breast

The Metamorphosis but funnier and with more exploration of sexual matters.

Philip Roth1.00
The Overcoat and Other Russian Tales

Although I fucking hate Russian literature, I've had Gogol stories in school lit curriculum, and have attended one of his plays as well. All I remember was 'The Overcoat', and that everything else was mind-numbingly boring. The audiobook version's translation is horrible (Isabel F. Hapgood, a fucking cunt a woman again ruins shit), given the amount of of existing ones. I mean, for fuck's sake, how often do you see beetles in the Russian winter indoors? From Kafka's Metamorphosis (in the original southern German), Ungeziefer would translate as vermin, pest, bugs, wild animals, how any translator would substitute a beetle in these' place and expect pay is beyond me.

Anyways, I fucking hate Russia. All of it forever and always, regardless, at this particular point in time A.A. is an utter loser, wholly irredeemable. Self-improvement? Nah. Status? Nah. Friends? Nah. Family? Nah. Hobbies? Nah. Goals? Nah. Et cetera. The Gutenberg printing press has existed from a some 200, 300 years and these niggas still be using copyists to further fatten to bureaucracy. I take this despicable story as a tragicomedy for weak, shallow men, losers.

Fuck Russia, and fuck Russians.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Isabel F. Hapgood (tr.)ma1.00
Alien: Covenant

Bit of a while it took me to make concrete wherefrom remembrance was nagging me. The latest Alien franchise movie is based on this very novel (or vice versa, who fucking cares). However, whereas it was exponentially underperformant compared to the already diminishingly returning Alien3, this vivifies that sterile money grab, redeemed by its visuals only. Even though characters were too numerous for me to keep track of (personal flaw stemming from difficulty to relate to human matter⸻my guess), they were distinct in their motivations, alliances, relations, attitudes. To me, that, rather than some rando future space names, made them.

Aboard the crashed ship and within the cathedral the movies hands-down outshines the book's descriptions. The latter's layout of the plot is substantially denser, more explicit, detailed (assuming it's the same).

Alan Dean Foster1.00
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Mark MansonK✓0.74
1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Peter W. Wood1.00
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Edwin BlackGfa0.07
A Guide to the Good Life

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

William B. IrvineKa0.35
Robert Hunter: 10 - Hunting Evil

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Chris Carter1.00
Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden And The Democrats' Defense Of The Indefensible

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Donald Trump Jr.KM0.94
The Arab Conquests

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Justin MarozziFG0.30
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Lesley Newson, Pete RichersonFG0.02
Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Thomas Dixonka0.19
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Matt Parkerkm0.96
Alien: Covenant Origins

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Alan Dean FosterbAGw0.93
Humble Pie

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Gordon Ramseykm1.00
The Hunger

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Alma Katsuwb0.05
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

William Knoedelsederba0.05
America: Imagine a World Without Her

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Dinesh D'Souza1.00
Truth Bombs: Confronting the Lies Conservatives Believe (To Our Own Demise)

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Steve Deacewa0.10
Matter: A Very Short Introduction

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Geoff CottrellK0.10
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Michael WolffgfWa0.03
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Manel LoureiroGfa0.06
I'm A Joke And So Are You

I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day.

So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so.

I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice.

Robin InceGa0.04
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Fucking hell, what an cunt this guy is. Everything opportunity in life, every chance turning out lucky for him, fucking hell, fucking hate self-entitled cunts like this, so fucking much. Fuck you.

Spite aside, descriptions were mired, beleaguered with a handful of words used frequently enough to produce a positive afterimage in my when reading other material. Barely tolerable.

Aron RalstonAbm0.91
Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Along with 127, and The Abominable, this is my third book into mountaineering/climbing/etc. A true story as the former, but unlike it, well-written, more interesting and having more substance, consequence, and character depth.

Postscriptum Just now I understand why the whole plot seems familiar, namely, there exists an eponymous movie based on the book's events, that I've watched in the past.

Joe SimpsonM1.00
Death in Venice

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Thomas Mann, Michael Henry Heim (tr.)MCa?0.85
The Deep Rig

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Patrick Byrne✓M1.00
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Michael C. Benderkb0.11
Ever Winter

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Peter Hackshawam0.26
Go the F--k to Sleep

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Adam Mansbachm1.00
Alien: Alien

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Alan Dean Foster1.00
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Carlo M. CipollaKGaf0.09
David Kepesh: 2 - The Professor of Desire

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Philip Rothja0.04
Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Donald J. Trump, Bill Zankeraw0.08
Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIverwb0.20
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Vaclav Smilmk0.66
The Secret of Ventriloquism

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Jon Padgettwa0.20
Lolita

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Vladimir Nabokov✔✔✔1.43
The Hunting

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Stephen Leatherw0.08
Tales of the Weird 3

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Tom Slemenw0.02
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Steven C. Hayesmka0.19
The Mental Floss History of the World An Irreverent Romp through Civilizations Best Bits

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

Steve Wiegandmka0.39
Cracked: The Unhappy Truth About Psychiatry

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

James DaviesM1.00
Tell Me a Story: Science Fiction One

The fuck is this⸻Lolita but with boys..? I fucking hate Germans sometimes. Lolita wasn't this cringe-worthy though, no, no. It took itself less seriously, this is supposedly serious lit from early 20. century. Kinda nice, but also insufferable.

V.A., Paul Williams (ed.)m0.72
Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

On-the-ground reporting, or documenting of Marxist infantiles destroying property, tradition; injuring/killing police officers/civilians, and, ultimately, making everything worse for themselves and anyone in their vicinity. This is no historic look-back, scholarly or theoretical work, as the other books on the subject that I have or have read. It's not new information, but nevertheless, the perspective it offers is one of a target and of just another blackbloc in the crowd.

Andy NgoMK1.00
I'm a Therapist, and My Patient Is Going to Be the Next School Shooter: 6 Patient Files That Will Keep You up at Night

On-the-ground reporting, or documenting of Marxist infantiles destroying property, tradition; injuring/killing police officers/civilians, and, ultimately, making everything worse for themselves and anyone in their vicinity. This is no historic look-back, scholarly or theoretical work, as the other books on the subject that I have or have read. It's not new information, but nevertheless, the perspective it offers is one of a target and of just another blackbloc in the crowd.

Dr. Harperma♀0.43
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump

Slightly one-sided biography. I get the drift once, and it keeping the very same every so often. Listening to Donald Trump Jr. talking about his grandparents was far more content-ful. The modelling world has changed much, if at all, I think, in the last 40 years. Despite the matter's potential, the author bored.

Mary Jordan♀mb0.31
How to Read and Why

If you're the prominent a writer, as your foreword suggest, you fuck, why does nobody know your name? Regardless, the advice seemed at first (didn't leaf through to confirm) to be based on the class of the work with 'short stories' heading it. I assume novels, poems/sonatas, etc., follow but it was dogmatic, authoritarian, pontificating, and one-sided. What some mean by 'academic' in its worse sense, is precisely this.
Inapplicable blather.

Harold Bloomwa0.09
The North Water

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Ian McGuireM1.00
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Robert Searsgwm1.00
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Julian Bagginimk1.00
Palm Springs Noir

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

V.A., Barbara DeMarco Barrett (ed.)W0.26
Real Food on Trial: How the Diet Dictators Tried to Destroy a Top Scientist

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Tim Noakes, Marika Sboros✔✔1.00
The New Gothic

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

V.A., Patrick McGrath (ed.), Bradford Morrow (ed.)b0.44
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

?GFWc0.15
Lethal Kisses

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.)bm0.58
Dark Matter

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Blake Crouchmw1.00
Unexplained Disappearances: Bizarre Missing People Stories That Baffled The Authorities

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Joseph Extonbm1.00
The Secret of Crickley Hall

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

James Herbertmpwa0.55
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Hunting for Yetis, Mongolian Deathworms and Other Not-So-Mythical Monsters

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Richard Freemanbm0.81
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Jason Schreiermk0.82
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Jason Schreiermbka0.54
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Beverly Daniel Tatum♀fg0.11
MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Steve Rinellaba0.25
Recursion

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Blake Crouchb0.19
Addicted to the Monkey Mind: Change the Programming That Sabotages Your Life

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

J.F. Benoistwa0.04
Lone Star Ranger

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Zane Grayb0.18
Asking the Ultimate Questions with the Great Thinkers of Our Time

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Robert L. Kuhnwa0.12
F--ked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream

Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title.

It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story.

Dale Maharidgeagf0.16
A History of Heavy Metal

Rather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to.

Andrew O'Neillmkag0.92
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

Rather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to.

John V. Petrocellikaf0.67
The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

Rather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to.

Michael WolffM1.00
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 13

Rather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to.

V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.), Terri Windling (ed.)Wa0.08
Alien: Out of the Shadows

In media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Covenant Origins and Covenant, as well as, in the future,

Forensic Science: Beginners Guide

In media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Covenant Origins and Covenant, as well as, in the future,

Dinosaur Summer

In media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Covenant Origins and Covenant, as well as, in the future,

Fooled by Randomness

In media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Covenant Origins and Covenant, as well as, in the future,

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

First collection stories, of which all are good or great, I've read. Some remind of observational standup routines: deadpan delivery, absurdist themes and motifs⸻it does well to color them without ever harming the message, and de-pinkifying them, fore they are all mostly love stories, love of one kind or another. Overall great.

I had annoyances with 2 stories, being gynocentric, -apologetic, and -enabling, also featuring degenerate human behavior as normal. Kind of 'leftie', but it's mostly skirting, and the majority of the stories' content is different from others I've read, and good despite the above. And even though others were told from the viewpoint of a female, which is a first for me (a collection of stories some 10 rows about I'd abruptly stopped for being bad, but was also from that POV and was so, so, so very weird, it'd been penned by one too). Lastly, fuck women. F-f-fuck women. Reading shit like this (part of how women are and men interact with women), in addition to seeing what the most 'modern', Marx-ball-sucking countries have allowed them to become (they for political power and financial gain), I've begun nursing a rejuvenated loathing for women. Humanity and evolution weren't enough.

Raphael Bob-WaksbergM1.00
I'm the Man: Story of That Guy From Anthrax

First collection stories, of which all are good or great, I've read. Some remind of observational standup routines: deadpan delivery, absurdist themes and motifs⸻it does well to color them without ever harming the message, and de-pinkifying them, fore they are all mostly love stories, love of one kind or another. Overall great.

I had annoyances with 2 stories, being gynocentric, -apologetic, and -enabling, also featuring degenerate human behavior as normal. Kind of 'leftie', but it's mostly skirting, and the majority of the stories' content is different from others I've read, and good despite the above. And even though others were told from the viewpoint of a female, which is a first for me (a collection of stories some 10 rows about I'd abruptly stopped for being bad, but was also from that POV and was so, so, so very weird, it'd been penned by one too). Lastly, fuck women. F-f-fuck women. Reading shit like this (part of how women are and men interact with women), in addition to seeing what the most 'modern', Marx-ball-sucking countries have allowed them to become (they for political power and financial gain), I've begun nursing a rejuvenated loathing for women. Humanity and evolution weren't enough.

Scott Ianm0.98
How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine

I didn't ask for your boringass, stupid, gay, inane bullshit life stories.

Men Without Country

I didn't ask for your boringass, stupid, gay, inane bullshit life stories.

Alien: River of Pain

WY made a colony on LV-223, where Ripley's crew found the delerict dog ship, the xenos, etc., Alien the movie more than less. Colonial marines and more xenos, but also kinda meh.

Christopher Golden✔✓1.00
Judge Dredd: The Pit

WY made a colony on LV-223, where Ripley's crew found the delerict dog ship, the xenos, etc., Alien the movie more than less. Colonial marines and more xenos, but also kinda meh.

John Wagnerw0.11
Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

James A. Moore1.00
The Best American Mystery Stories: 2000

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

V.A., Donald E. Westlake (ed.), Otto Penzler (ed.)m0.92
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

Dave GrossmanKwfa0.18
The Catcher in the Rye

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

J.D. Salinger1.00
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

Preston Nortonwp0.04
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil

Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about.

Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonFGw0.35
The Power of the Powerless

This section deserves inclusion in its entirety. Dandily a bullseye's bullseye, especially post 202003xx.

IV Between the aims of the post-totalitarian system and the aims of life there is a yawning abyss: while life, in its essence, moves towards plurality, diversity, independent self-constitution and self-organization, in short, towards the fulfillment of its own freedom, the post-totalitarian system demands conformity, uniformity, and discipline. While life ever strives to create new and ‘improbable' structures, the post-totalitarian system contrives to force life into its most probable states. The aims of the system reveal its most essential characteristic to be introversion, a movement towards being ever more completely and unreservedly itself, which means that the radius of its influence is continually widening as well. This system serves people only to the extent necessary to ensure that people will serve it. Anything beyond this, that is to say, anything which leads people to overstep their predetermined roles, is regarded by the system as an attack upon itself. And in this respect it is correct: every instance of such transgression is a genuine denial of the system. It can be said, therefore, that the inner aim of the post-totalitarian system is not mere preservation of power in the hands of a ruling clique, as appears to be the case at first sight. Rather, the social phenomenon of self-preservation is subordinated to something higher, to a kind of blind automatism which drives the system. No matter what position individuals hold in the hierarchy of power, they are not considered by the system to be worth anything in themselves, but only as things intended to fuel and serve this automatism. For this reason, an individual's desire for power is admissible only in so far as its direction coincides with the direction of the automatism of the system. Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality. The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing. Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

Rarely is material so stentorian. Rarely am I compelled to reread, rethread, relisten, remember every almost every paragraph. Easily one of the most important books regarding politics for the 20. and 21. centuries, one worthy of rereading a few times.

Václav Havel✔✔✔2.33
The Curse of High IQ

I know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year).

Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time).

Aaron ClareyMK1.00
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11 Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal

I know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year).

Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time).

Philip MoriartyKm0.96
Time to Get Tough: Making America №1 Again

I know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year).

Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time).

Donald J. TrumpK0.71
Arachnoid

Amateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost.

Michael Colewmb0.30
Daddy's Little Girl

Amateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost.

William Malmborgm0.98
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

Amateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost.

Fanny Merkin, Andrew Shaffermwp0.81
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, And More Tell Us About Crime

Amateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost.

Val McDermidM♀ga0.89
Alien: Aliens

Amateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost.

Alan Dean Foster1.00
The Illuminatus!: 1 - The Eye in the Pyramid

Now this... THIS. IS.⸻, well, not Sparta, but КИНО. With far re-enjoy value than 300, and as dense as osmium. It is the abominably cute and scrumptious, aborted fetus, diamond blade angleground to mellifluous, metallic, menarcheal (closest I could think of to an m-initiated word for red), matinal mist. Whose (you don't ask)? Mark Leyner's, via

Crisis Moon

Now this... THIS. IS.⸻, well, not Sparta, but КИНО. With far re-enjoy value than 300, and as dense as osmium. It is the abominably cute and scrumptious, aborted fetus, diamond blade angleground to mellifluous, metallic, menarcheal (closest I could think of to an m-initiated word for red), matinal mist. Whose (you don't ask)? Mark Leyner's, via

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite

Annoying Yalie shite pointing out conspicuities about the American tertiary education system, and graciously proffering fuck all solution-wise. The hope tree bears naught for anybody (with a brain) having above common knowledge about the current sich and, roughly, the history.

Really liked the below 4 paragraphs or the third part at around 67%. Claws on the door to the answer of how I feel about recorded thought.

But popular culture also gives you models for experience, and so does advertising. Fifty Shades of Grey, a Nike commercial, half the pop songs in the world: they tap directly into your id, submerging you in fantasies of pleasure. Who wouldn't want to live like that? The difference is that art provides you both the models and the means to question them. It demands that you read alertly, with your mind and not just your glands. What are the limits of living like Elizabeth? What might Stephen miss about himself? Does Holden get it wrong? Does Ahab get it right? If the liberal arts turn certainties into questions, the humanities do that, in particular, with ethical and existential certainties: our convictions about how we should act and whom we should be. Stories, says the writer Andrei Codrescu, are engines of reflection. Middlemarch, A Portrait of the Artist, Heart of Darkness, the Odyssey: literature enables us to think about our lives, just as it's been doing in this book. Nor does that reflection only go to values. Everything we find in life we find in art. Ambition in Macbeth and The Sopranos, ennui in Chekhov and Fellini, marginality in Ralph Ellison and Arundhati Roy, and on and endlessly on. I have learned from Dante that love and hate are complements, not opposites (a good thing to know if you happen to belong to a family); from E.M. Forster, that liberal attitudes are often a cover for vanity and ignorance; from Mary Gaitskill, something of the ways the soul is manifested in the body. I don't know that any of those perceptions have influenced my choices, exactly, but they have deeply shaped my understanding of both myself and the world. Edmundson speaks of “the incessant labor of combining your own experience, taken in and metabolized by intense feeling and thought, with what you have acquired in books.” Art and life, back and forth, each illuminating the other, both together creating a self. ... You need to know what people are⸻how they think, what they want, how they act⸻as well as something of the moral pitfalls of your own proposed interventions. (The law of unintended consequences is pretty much the governing principle of narrative art.) The humanities put back everything the social sciences, by way of necessary simplification, take out. Economics, e.g., the most authoritative of the social sciences today, informs us that people are rational actors, forever seeking to maximize their material self-interest⸻an assertion that would come as news to the author of King Lear, let alone The Brothers Karamazov. Only literature, in the words of the diplomatic strategist Charles Hill, is “methodologically unbounded” enough to show how the world really works. I've heard it said that novels are obsolete, that books like War and Peace belong to an age when information could be delivered only in extremely inefficient forms. But War and Peace doesn't tell you the same kinds of things that you can learn from a blog post or a Wikipedia entry, not even fourteen hundred pages of them. It needs to be big and complex because it's telling you something that's big and complex. It doesn't give you “information”; it gives you life. ... “The most successful tyranny,” said Allan Bloom, is “the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.” The past gave rise to the present, but it is also different from the present. It shows us that things do not have to be the way that they are now. It provides us with a vantage point from which to see that our conventional wisdom is just conventional, not wisdom⸻that what we think is natural is merely cultural; temporal, not eternal; particular, not universal. It offers us an exit from the present. It tells us that things change: not only don't they have to be the way they are, they will not be the way they are. The past, in other words, allows us to create the future. ...

William DeresiewiczKma0.75
Enjoy the Decline

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Aaron Clarey✔Mk1.00
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Steven Rinellab0.23
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Meik Wikinga0.11
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (tr.)b0.80
Happiness Is A Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Dennis Pragerjm1.00
Apocalypse Machine

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Jeremy Robinsonwc0.09
Island 731

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Jeremy Robinsonmw0.47
Decadence: A Very Short Introduction

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

David Weirb0.95
Robert Hunter: 11 - Written in Blood

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Chris CartermMp1.00
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.)✔M1.00
Moonglow

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Michael ChabonB0.12
The Ages of Lulu

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Almudena Grandesmb1.00
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done

Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based.

The same author's The Curse of High IQ would have been been served by this book's solid advice and suggestions over many a topic and issue, rather than bare explanations. I don't wanna say that this is I Know, Right?: The Book: 2: Electic Boogaloo, buuut it does majorly mirror my thoughts around various problems, and solutions and reasonings thereto and thereabout.

To quote myself⸻one ... [could] rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). note to self: reread in 1a.

Elizabeth R. Ricker♀ak0.05
Everybody Is Wrong About God

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

James A. Lindsay✔✔1.00
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

V.A., Wrath James White (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.), Randy Chandler (ed.)M♀cw0.93
Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Ryu Murakamib0.26
A Horses Tale

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Mark Twainbm1.00
Chasing The Boogeyman

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Richard ChizmarWbm0.85
Way of the Wolf: Become a Master Closer with Straight Line Selling

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Jordan Belfortpck0.25
Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

V.A., Cheryl Mullenax (ed.)✓M1.00
Zombie Jesus

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Edward TeachmM1.25
For Any Other Truth

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Denzil Meyrickb0.07
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Leonard SmithM1.00
The Bizarro Starter Kit: Purple

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

V.A.1.50
Ghost at Dusk

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Kevan Dalewc0.05
The Loop

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Jeremy Robert Johnsonbc0.25
The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Tucker Carlsonm1.00
Retreat: 1 - Pandemic

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight, Joe McKinneymb0.50
Alien: Alien3

An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written.

Alan Dean FosterM1.00
Alien: Resurrection

Very nigga.

P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with.

A.C. Crispin1.00
Don't Know Much about World Myths

Very nigga.

P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with.

Kenneth C. Davis, Sergio Ruzzierkm1.00
Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

Very nigga.

P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with.

Ken Berry✔✔1.00
The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance To The Mask

Very nigga.

P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with.

Christopher Cantwell, Patric Reynolds, Lee Loughridge, Nate Piekosaw0.15
The Proper Care and Feeding of Zombies

Very nigga.

P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with.

Mac Montandoncw0.06
How to Have Impossible Conversations

If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development.

The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it.

Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay✔✔1.00
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 3

If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development.

The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it.

V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.)m✓b0.83
Daft Wee Stories

If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development.

The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it.

Limmyb0.23
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617

If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development.

The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it.

Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller (ed., tr.), C. Calvert BA (tr.), A.W. Gruner MA (tr.)mb1.00
The Genetically Engineered Pandemic

Concise presentation of the motivations and reasons (again). Ivor Cummins had a great podcast episode with guest Gabor Erdosi, who explained in more detail the virology and biochemistry in the latter half of it, and the chances of it being 'lmao, just nature, lol. accept the bat facts'. This was in March '21.

Peter Tremblay✓k1.00
A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Having followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc.

Laura Dodsworth✔k1.00
Eat the Yolks: Discover Paleo, Fight Food Lies, and Reclaim Your Health

Having followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc.

Liz Wolfe♀agK0.15
Ghost Virus

Having followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc.

Graham Mastertonmwbg0.21
Alien: Isolation

Novelization of the eponymous video game. My second meeting with Amanda Ripley, daughter of best mommy Ripley, initial being in Sea of Sorrows name-wise only. While the backstory is plausible and fitting, and pleasant enough, the author doesn't explore new grounds, asks no new questions, and, apart from 'what happened with Amanda?', answers no old ones either. Kind of another 'WY bad' book, albeit more of them are, but at least they had some stuffing... I'd only watched a few playthroughs and speedruns of the game, so I was familiar with the architecture, the setting, the plot, the characters. Again, compared to the game, the book did a poor job of describing various structures, whilst providing unnecessary details to other things, like people. The joes were uncanny or sinister enough. sigh If more liberty were taken and he'd strayed a bit from the game, awkward scenes could've tacitly been omitted for the better.

Keith DeCandidoM✓1.00
The Dead Student

Novelization of the eponymous video game. My second meeting with Amanda Ripley, daughter of best mommy Ripley, initial being in Sea of Sorrows name-wise only. While the backstory is plausible and fitting, and pleasant enough, the author doesn't explore new grounds, asks no new questions, and, apart from 'what happened with Amanda?', answers no old ones either. Kind of another 'WY bad' book, albeit more of them are, but at least they had some stuffing... I'd only watched a few playthroughs and speedruns of the game, so I was familiar with the architecture, the setting, the plot, the characters. Again, compared to the game, the book did a poor job of describing various structures, whilst providing unnecessary details to other things, like people. The joes were uncanny or sinister enough. sigh If more liberty were taken and he'd strayed a bit from the game, awkward scenes could've tacitly been omitted for the better.

John Katzenbachmb0.25
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How

Uncle Ted book. Examines the characteristics of successful and un-such revolutions/activist things. Of course, propaganda to a degree, but also an educational handbook for how to organize movements. Although I don't think an anti-tech revolution is ever to happen, since what the fuck is a technology and who fucking decides, and all that jazz, just creates more problems than it solves. And given the problem-solving nature of engineers and scientists all around the world for the last several thousand years, I'm sure that them knocking their head against the reinforced concrete will eventually suggest a weak spot, as it has in the past. Kinda sad to see him citing the same things, it's as if the penitentiary won't lend out books, or inquire for more.

Theodore J. KaczynskimGb0.90
The October List

Nice premise for a book: chapter delivery in reverse, that is, reverse chronological plot unvealing. However, it's a fucking woman again and shit revolving around her, her child, and the cucks orbiting this slovenly whore. Fuck you, Deaver.

Jeffery Deaverwapb0.08
Dead Set

Nice premise for a book: chapter delivery in reverse, that is, reverse chronological plot unvealing. However, it's a fucking woman again and shit revolving around her, her child, and the cucks orbiting this slovenly whore. Fuck you, Deaver.

Richard Kadreyb0.06
The Naked and the Dead

Sweet mother of fuck:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
Horrible writing.

Norman MailerBw0.03
The House of a Hundred Whispers

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Graham Mastertonmwb0.56
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 4

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.)M1.00
The Nightmare Collection: Volume 1

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Lee Mountfordwp0.15
Death By Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Special Interests Have Ruined out Health

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Denise Minge✔k1.00
The Switch House

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Tim Meyerwp0.31
That's Your Lot

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Limmym0.60
10 Percent Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of Ghost Virus⸻decent premise, bad execution. This guy is 2 for 2, you could say this is his 'style', unappealing as it may be for me. I'd rather not know how it ends, than have to endure more of this pussyfooting.

Alanna CollenKm0.91
You See the Monster

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Luke Smitherd✓M1.00
World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Sanjay Gupta, Kristin LobergFG0.02
Zero Lives Remaining

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Adam Cesare1.00
Clown in a Cornfield: 1

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Adam CesareM✓p1.00
Exponential

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Adam Cesarempb0.48
I See You

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Gregg HurwitzM1.00
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Lee Millerb0.16
The Nowhere Man

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Gregg Hurwitzc0.04
The Survivor

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Gregg HurwitzM✓p1.00
The Con Season

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Adam Cesaremb1.00
Darkness on the Edge of Town

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Brian Keenecpmb0.42
Don't Look Back

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Gregg Hurwitzap0.05
The Dying Citizen

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Victor Davis Hanson✓k1.00
It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter Gatherer

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Bill Heaveympc0.21
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Cracked.commk1.00
Legion versus Phalanx

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Myke ColemB0.48
The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Andersen PruntyM1.00
Deliverance

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

James Dickeymb0.52
Alien: Echo

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Mira GrantWpga0.08
Far North

My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people.

Marcel Therouxmbw0.15
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

Robert D. PutnamMb1.00
Before and Laughter

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

Jimmy Carram0.28
Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

Mark HymanKwm0.50
The Bomb Maker

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

Thomas Perrympc0.34
Intercepts

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

T.J. Paynem1.00
Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?

A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts.

Bill HeaveyM1.00
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Wholly missing the point and shilling ineffective, self-destructive politics using faulty, objectively wrong reasoning. Fuck you for ruining the one country that could've be good on this shithole of a planet.

Michael ShellenbergerKgfmb0.48
Suspect Zero

Wholly missing the point and shilling ineffective, self-destructive politics using faulty, objectively wrong reasoning. Fuck you for ruining the one country that could've be good on this shithole of a planet.

Richard KadreyM1.00
Under the Volcano

Stream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists). Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than By Night in Chile or Under the Volcano. It reads something like seventy-two village idiots, drunks, or towncriers unfurling the selfsame story, incessantly interrupting each other soon as present storyteller's fire suffocates, continuing? No, beginning anew, but you, you're sitting there, soaking in this man's story, unsure if it's one or all of them, you initially wanted to hear the ending, want him to get to the point, the crux, the resolution, any form of progression. I love it. Circles around? I love it. Also, writing a months or two after completion, it reminds also of

Hell: Prison Diary

Stream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists). Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than By Night in Chile or Under the Volcano. It reads something like seventy-two village idiots, drunks, or towncriers unfurling the selfsame story, incessantly interrupting each other soon as present storyteller's fire suffocates, continuing? No, beginning anew, but you, you're sitting there, soaking in this man's story, unsure if it's one or all of them, you initially wanted to hear the ending, want him to get to the point, the crux, the resolution, any form of progression. I love it. Circles around? I love it. Also, writing a months or two after completion, it reminds also of

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Stream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists). Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than By Night in Chile or Under the Volcano. It reads something like seventy-two village idiots, drunks, or towncriers unfurling the selfsame story, incessantly interrupting each other soon as present storyteller's fire suffocates, continuing? No, beginning anew, but you, you're sitting there, soaking in this man's story, unsure if it's one or all of them, you initially wanted to hear the ending, want him to get to the point, the crux, the resolution, any form of progression. I love it. Circles around? I love it. Also, writing a months or two after completion, it reminds also of

The Color Purple

Stream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists). Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than By Night in Chile or Under the Volcano. It reads something like seventy-two village idiots, drunks, or towncriers unfurling the selfsame story, incessantly interrupting each other soon as present storyteller's fire suffocates, continuing? No, beginning anew, but you, you're sitting there, soaking in this man's story, unsure if it's one or all of them, you initially wanted to hear the ending, want him to get to the point, the crux, the resolution, any form of progression. I love it. Circles around? I love it. Also, writing a months or two after completion, it reminds also of

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

Geoffrey Cain✔✔1.00
The Amityville Horror

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

Jay Ansonwc0.08
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 5

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.)M1.00
The Collector

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

John FowlesM✓1.00
The Door

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

John Holtpmw1.00
Confessions of a Bookseller

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

Shaun Bythellmab0.55
If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia

The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read.

Bill HeaveyM0.93
Ghost

The book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G.

Piers AnthonyMg1.00
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That

The book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G.

Ben Goldacrekamb0.75
Dirty Weather

The book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G.

Gregg Hurwitzm1.00
The Plague

The book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G.

Albert Camus1.00
The Iceman Always Comes on Tuesday

The book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G.

James Massew0.16
Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Can Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

William Strauss, Neil Howe1.00
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Michael A. Heller, James SalzmanM1.00
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Eric Carlem1.00
Control

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt ShawMw1.00
Porn

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmw1.00
Whore

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt ShawMw1.00
Wheat Belly

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

William DavisM✓1.00
Consumed

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmw1.00
Clown

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt ShawMw1.00
Don't Read

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmpw1.00
Seed

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shaw✓M1.00
The Cabin: 1 - The Cabin

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt ShawMWP1.00
The Cabin: 2 - Asylum

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt ShawMWP1.00
Zero Hour: Omnibus Edition

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Eamon Ambrosewc0.20
Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

David DeutschkapM1.00
The Midwich Cuckoos

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

John WyndhamM✓1.00
The Mariana Trench

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmpw1.00
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Jame Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg1.00
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs1.00
Trouble with Lichen

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

John WyndhambaM0.76
Sick Bastards

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmpw1.00
SickER Bastards

Over the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present.

Matt Shawmw1.00
Tick

I've seen author's name a few times only, I now see why. His work regards child exploitation and pornography, and sexual deviancy, depravity, deformation, and degeneracy in a rapid-fire onslaught of brutality that you can't easily sell to 99.9% of readers. The work is divvied into sections A through G, each pertaining to 1 or more real-world, (un-)solved crimes in America of violent and sexual nature, with questions asked by some combination of an attorney, a psychologist, and a female magazine contributor, then answered by the⸻and I'm guessing here, since some, if not all, the crimes are unresolved⸻, criminals, that is, Sotos himself, using appropriate language throughout. On that note, I know nothing of this man: he writes on this topic exclusively, is handled by small publishers with few prints and often in scant quantities and editions, literally only Pornography is to be found readily online, containing 5 'novels' of his from '91⸺00, this being the first of the lot. I quite enjoyed the style, the brutality, and I think he did a few good job at trying to get into the heads of such individuals, I don't know how or why, but I would like to know. I'm actually considering dropping real money on this guy, but I really do not want to deal with physical media.

Peter Sotos1.00
Fatherland

More an alternative history novel, wherein NatSoc Germany 'wins' WWII, than a detective one, with the majority of the plot focus on events that took place. Eerily similar to present day China and its Uyghurs, or post-revolution Russian. In real life, national socialism's and fascism's apparent mogging of everything attempted in the East (bolshevism, menshevism, leninism, trotskyism, communism, stalinism, socialism, maoism, juche, aaand so on), I think, is due to both nations' prosperity beforehand (compared to despotic, feudalistic states) rather than the ideology, and certainly not any latent demographic superiority (the amount of decent to good or great citizen expelled, expropriated, or exterminated German citizens, let alone the conquereds' ones could have been used for the good of the many⸻instead potential was lost, for the worse of all). Does the ideas of national socialism justice in presenting them honestly, and American leftists' flirtations with them. A nice book on totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

Robert Harris✔✓1.00
Darkness Visible

More an alternative history novel, wherein NatSoc Germany 'wins' WWII, than a detective one, with the majority of the plot focus on events that took place. Eerily similar to present day China and its Uyghurs, or post-revolution Russian. In real life, national socialism's and fascism's apparent mogging of everything attempted in the East (bolshevism, menshevism, leninism, trotskyism, communism, stalinism, socialism, maoism, juche, aaand so on), I think, is due to both nations' prosperity beforehand (compared to despotic, feudalistic states) rather than the ideology, and certainly not any latent demographic superiority (the amount of decent to good or great citizen expelled, expropriated, or exterminated German citizens, let alone the conquereds' ones could have been used for the good of the many⸻instead potential was lost, for the worse of all). Does the ideas of national socialism justice in presenting them honestly, and American leftists' flirtations with them. A nice book on totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

William Styroncm1.00
A Place So Wicked

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Patrick Reumanm1.00
Child of God

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Cormac McCarthy✓✔1.00
My Deadly Obsession

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawm1.00
Irene's Cunt

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Louis AragonMm1.00
The Adventures Of Jean-Fuck The Cock

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Louis AragonM1.00
12 Steps

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Iain Rob Wrightmp1.00
Bitten

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawmp1.00
My Family

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt ShawM1.00
Psychopath for Hire

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawbm0.60
8d6

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Robert Bevanmbp0.36
48 Hours to Kill

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Andrew Bourellem1.00
Trolley No. 1852

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee✔✓1.00
God's Demon

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Wayne BarloweMpw0.76
Rotting Dead F*cks

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawwpbm0.68
ICU

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward LeeM1.00
Grub-Girl

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee1.00
Goon

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee, John Pelan✓✔1.00
In and out the Garbage Pail

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Frederik Perlsw0.10
Going Monstering

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee✓✔1.00
The Cavern

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Alister Hodgemwb1.00
Infected: 1 - Infected

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Scott Siglerw0.36
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Allison Schrager♀wp0.33
Florida Man: 1 - Florida Man

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Mike BaronM1.00
The Stick Woman

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee✓✔1.00
Florida Man: 2 - Hogzilla

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Mike Baronm0.62
Lazy

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Peter Sotos1.00
Pendragon: 08 - The Pilgrims of Rayne

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

D.J. MacHalem1.00
Bedtime Stories For Cynics

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

V.A.m0.92
Pendragon: 09 - Raven Rise

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

D.J. MacHalem1.00
Pendragon: 10 - The Soldiers of Halla

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

D.J. MacHalem1.00
Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Stuart MacBridem1.00
Every Tool's a Hammer

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Adam Savagem0.95
Crime at Christmas

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

V.A., Jack Adrian (ed.)m1.00
Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Mikita Brottman♀a0.06
Harold Shipman

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Ryan GreenM1.00
Columbian Killers

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Ryan GreenM1.00
Fred and Rose West

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Ryan GreenM1.00
The Kurim Case

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Ryan GreenM1.00
More Bedtime Stories For Cynics

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

V.A.0.18
Ghouls

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee✓✔1.00
Brain Cheese Buffet

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Edward Lee✓✔1.00
Tortured

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawmw1.00
TED

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawmwa0.05
Art

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shaw, Michael Braymw0.18
Bunnygirls

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Simon ArcherWcp0.06
Dharma Bums

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jack KerouacMAp1.00
Island of the Sequined Love Nun

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Christopher MooreM1.00
Sexual Healing

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawm1.00
The Lost Son

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawm1.00
Keller: 1 - Hit Man

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence BlockM1.00
Keller: 2 - Hit List

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence Blockm1.00
Love Life

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawmp1.00
Some Kind of Cu*t

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Matt Shawmwp1.00
Keller: 3 - Hit Parade

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence Blockbm0.15
Keller: 4 - Hit and Run

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence Blockm1.00
Sacré Bleu

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Christopher MooreM1.00
Butcher Road

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon Athan✓M1.00
Mr. Snuff

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon Athan✓M1.00
A Phantom Passion

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon Athanm1.00
Do Not Disturb: 1 - Do Not Disturb

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon AthanM✓1.00
10 Days

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon AthanM1.00
Camp Blaze

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon AthanM1.00
The Abuse of Ashley Collins

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon AthanM✓1.00
The Social Media Murders

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon AthanMpa1.00
Chip Harrison: 1 - No Score

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence BlockM1.00
Chip Harrison: 2 - Chip Harrison Scores Again

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence BlockM1.00
Chip Harrison: 3 - Make out with Murder

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence Blockm1.00
Chip Harrison: 4 - The Topless Tulip Caper

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Lawrence Blockmb0.60
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Henri Bergsonmwb0.66
An English Murder

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Cyril Harem1.00
A Personal Matter

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Kenzaburo Oe✓Ma1.00
The Poisoned Chocolates Case

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Anthony Berkeleyam0.28
A Family of Violence

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Jon Athanmpw1.00
The Late Night Horror Show

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

Bryan Smithwpbm0.23
The Palm Beach Murders

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

James PattersonWbm0.42
The Noise

Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, or 1 or 2. Arguably, Huxley's Brave New World and⸻,wait a sec, this has remained unfinished quite a bit 20211221⸺20220212, anyways, it was fine.

James Patterson, J.D. BarkerW0.05
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

The other book I did on Gacy went into detail criminal and or deviant aspects followed by dull milksop. This one, however, portrays a human being, presents a whole lost that had being covered by attorney-client privilege, but that Gacy wanted eventually told by said attorney, the author. Interesting character study, characters. Good read.

Sam Amirante, Danny BroderickMm1.00
Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist

So, second book around, The Golden Apple of the Illumiunatus! trilo, references haven't been eluding me as much, and I've also attempted to acquire any other readables. Well, this is one of them, so I read it. Context matters a lot in history, and this cunt's life and years before that were filled with happenings, that aren't what I came for, aren't debauchery, perversion, ruination, etc. It was interesting, but I also have a hard time keeping track of many, isonomic or similarly enough named people. The interpretations are interesting and would warrant some thought, but as a book it's not great, nor as a textbook, it reads like an long essay.

Artonin ArtaudM1.00
Fat Chance

So, second book around, The Golden Apple of the Illumiunatus! trilo, references haven't been eluding me as much, and I've also attempted to acquire any other readables. Well, this is one of them, so I read it. Context matters a lot in history, and this cunt's life and years before that were filled with happenings, that aren't what I came for, aren't debauchery, perversion, ruination, etc. It was interesting, but I also have a hard time keeping track of many, isonomic or similarly enough named people. The interpretations are interesting and would warrant some thought, but as a book it's not great, nor as a textbook, it reads like an long essay.

Robert H. Lustig✓kM1.15
Chimera

An Arctic station full of brilliant female scientists⸻yeah, right⸻who inevitably fuck up everything⸻ok, hauling ass back to reality. Boring backstories of the uncredible 'people' there, every 1⸺2 chapters are cramming unneeded, unwanted information about unlikeables, telling, not showing, whilst also fucking up the suspense curve, which is wrong for the whole fucking book. The present-day part you can foretell wholly, just bad writing everywhere, not a single thing done properly. The idea of the novel is almost passable, but its gradual turn to schlock, (bad) cheese, and (ill executed) clichés made for just more disappointment.

Michael McBridemwp0.75
The Stranger

My second read, first being the in-the-foreword-somewhat-beshaded one, translated by Stuart Gilbert some years ago. I have both copies, and I compared a few pages. Although I prefer this one's wording and vocabulary, the discrepancies are subtle. The book itself is one I take to heart, about acceptance, about the absurdity of life, of things happening and us going along with them, about shit happening. Could have been of a person doing the exact opposite and likewise caring little.

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (tr.)1.00
Handling the Undead

Useful knowledge if you have to time to study the people, or have recordings of them, or good photographic memory. Some of information is obviously biased and or false/outdated, and I think the author has left omit a not insignificant of failures and embarrassments for himself and his agency. A nice read nonetheless, if one's collating such information from other sources.

John Ajvide Lindqvistbm0.26
A House in the Country

Useful knowledge if you have to time to study the people, or have recordings of them, or good photographic memory. Some of information is obviously biased and or false/outdated, and I think the author has left omit a not insignificant of failures and embarrassments for himself and his agency. A nice read nonetheless, if one's collating such information from other sources.

Matt Shawmbpw1.00
Cannibal Jungle

A tribute to 80s horror/gore flicks à la Cannibal Holocaust. Suspense-release-wise, it does very well, taking many hints from 1987's movie Predator. People die, well, they all die, but it's satisfying most often, not cheap, and all people seem reasonably plausible. Short and sweet, like his other novels.

Jon Athan✓M1.00
The Death Wish Game

A tribute to 80s horror/gore flicks à la Cannibal Holocaust. Suspense-release-wise, it does very well, taking many hints from 1987's movie Predator. People die, well, they all die, but it's satisfying most often, not cheap, and all people seem reasonably plausible. Short and sweet, like his other novels.

Jonathan ChateauWmg0.59
To Kill a Droid

Uuuh, David Cage's Detroit: Become Human much? However, this was released 2 years prior thereto, and it's actually good, specifically by not ham-fisting you another's childish moral views via falsely dichotomous good/evil choices. I think, Cage may in bulk buy books, written by indie, unknown, and or new authors, for the total price less than that of a single one by a mediocrely known author. He'd go through them until an idea grabs him, after which he'd do minor alterations to fit his worldview and wa la, a David Cage cage.

Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. Bladerunner 2077 asks/challenges some of the same or similar enough questions/ideas, as does Cage's Detroit, albeit poorly, but the former's pacing is spot-on, latter's⸻goes from okay, to bad, to wtf?. Otherwise, a great read.

9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it.

Jon Athan1.00
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

Uuuh, David Cage's Detroit: Become Human much? However, this was released 2 years prior thereto, and it's actually good, specifically by not ham-fisting you another's childish moral views via falsely dichotomous good/evil choices. I think, Cage may in bulk buy books, written by indie, unknown, and or new authors, for the total price less than that of a single one by a mediocrely known author. He'd go through them until an idea grabs him, after which he'd do minor alterations to fit his worldview and wa la, a David Cage cage.

Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. Bladerunner 2077 asks/challenges some of the same or similar enough questions/ideas, as does Cage's Detroit, albeit poorly, but the former's pacing is spot-on, latter's⸻goes from okay, to bad, to wtf?. Otherwise, a great read.

9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it.

Harald JähnerMg0.89
The Unwelcome

Uuuh, David Cage's Detroit: Become Human much? However, this was released 2 years prior thereto, and it's actually good, specifically by not ham-fisting you another's childish moral views via falsely dichotomous good/evil choices. I think, Cage may in bulk buy books, written by indie, unknown, and or new authors, for the total price less than that of a single one by a mediocrely known author. He'd go through them until an idea grabs him, after which he'd do minor alterations to fit his worldview and wa la, a David Cage cage.

Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. Bladerunner 2077 asks/challenges some of the same or similar enough questions/ideas, as does Cage's Detroit, albeit poorly, but the former's pacing is spot-on, latter's⸻goes from okay, to bad, to wtf?. Otherwise, a great read.

9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it.

Jacob Steven Mohra0.13
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

Uuuh, David Cage's Detroit: Become Human much? However, this was released 2 years prior thereto, and it's actually good, specifically by not ham-fisting you another's childish moral views via falsely dichotomous good/evil choices. I think, Cage may in bulk buy books, written by indie, unknown, and or new authors, for the total price less than that of a single one by a mediocrely known author. He'd go through them until an idea grabs him, after which he'd do minor alterations to fit his worldview and wa la, a David Cage cage.

Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. Bladerunner 2077 asks/challenges some of the same or similar enough questions/ideas, as does Cage's Detroit, albeit poorly, but the former's pacing is spot-on, latter's⸻goes from okay, to bad, to wtf?. Otherwise, a great read.

9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it.

John Glattmb1.00
I Must Betray You

Historical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements.

Just like Darkness Before Noon, though more detailed in the mundanity (mundaneness may beshade Danes?) and grayness, stresses, fears, hopes, disappointments, and minute comforts of daily life, a vivid picture of the persons' lives is painted. I can appreciate how various characters' points of view contrast, depending on their end-goals and knowledge, and omissions, bringing nuance. The book jacket is all the summary you're going to need. No information is prerequisite, and not much action happens, or characters to keep track of, though you need only multiply the boy's, experience permuting lightly, by the whole population of Romania. A damn fine, serious, short read.

Ruta Sepetys1.00
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By

Historical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements.

Just like Darkness Before Noon, though more detailed in the mundanity (mundaneness may beshade Danes?) and grayness, stresses, fears, hopes, disappointments, and minute comforts of daily life, a vivid picture of the persons' lives is painted. I can appreciate how various characters' points of view contrast, depending on their end-goals and knowledge, and omissions, bringing nuance. The book jacket is all the summary you're going to need. No information is prerequisite, and not much action happens, or characters to keep track of, though you need only multiply the boy's, experience permuting lightly, by the whole population of Romania. A damn fine, serious, short read.

John Farrisbw0.21
Shadows

Historical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements.

Just like Darkness Before Noon, though more detailed in the mundanity (mundaneness may beshade Danes?) and grayness, stresses, fears, hopes, disappointments, and minute comforts of daily life, a vivid picture of the persons' lives is painted. I can appreciate how various characters' points of view contrast, depending on their end-goals and knowledge, and omissions, bringing nuance. The book jacket is all the summary you're going to need. No information is prerequisite, and not much action happens, or characters to keep track of, though you need only multiply the boy's, experience permuting lightly, by the whole population of Romania. A damn fine, serious, short read.

Jill Emerson♀wm0.28
A Woman in Berlin

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Come With Me

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Stay Awhile and Listen: Heaven, Hell, and Secret Cow Levels

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Mine

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Weapon of A.S.S. Destruction

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Face to Face with Serial Killers

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Snow

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Spit and Die

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Sweetman Curve

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Alien: Alien 3

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Maltese Falcon

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Anything for a Quiet Life

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Night Parade

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Truro Murders

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Sinclair

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

You Think You Know Me

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Heaven Calling

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Watching, Waiting

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The End

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Diary of a Dead Man: The Final Thoughts of Ed Boothe

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Little Heaven

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Money Bible: Including the Ten Laws of Abundance

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Parasites on Parade

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey

In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through

A Pillar of Iron

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Taylor CaldwellMb0.44
The Tetris Effect

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Dan Ackermanm1.00
The End of Alice

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

A.M. Homes✔✔1.00
American Muckraker

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

James O'Keefemk1.00
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

David McAdamswk0.53
Season's Creepings: Tales of Holiday Horror

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Ronald Kellym0.69
Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch (tr.)Mm0.03
Take Your Breath Away

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Linwood BarclayM1.00
Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Frederick Taylor✓M1.00
More From Less

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Andrew McAfeeKM1.00
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

A.S. BarwichBMw0.72
Bad Appetites

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Jon Athan1.00
Mason's Television

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Jon AthanM1.00
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

David OwenM1.00
Possession

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

A.S. ByattMaw0.31
Vampire Hunter D

Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about.

Hideyuki Kikuchi, Kevin Leahy (tr.)WCm0.21
Industrial Society and Its Future

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Theodore J. Kaczynski✔✔2.00
Rickshaw Boy

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Lao She, Howard Goldblatt (tr.)M1.00
The Day of the Triffids

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

John WyndhamM✓1.00
Ghoul

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Brian Keenemw0.38
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and Sociopaths

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Travis S. Kennedym1.00
A Better Future: How We Fix the World

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Tyler TrueGFm0.24
Forlorn River

Teddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95.

The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, The Anti-Tech Revolution... That had it's own issues, which I'll address on a future reread. For now though, this is a concentrated acid.

Zane Greymbw0.06
Smashed in the USSR: Fear, Loathing and Vodka on the Steppes

Why the hag gets top billing is ponderous, given her contribution consists of fore- and afterword. Ivan abridges his comings and going from various cities, villages, institution in a few USSR republics and oblasts, his dealings, misgivings, conversations, pleas, fights, meals, etc. with many people. He is, to a degree, a walking, talking example of a stereotype for Russians, but he hauls in the much needed absent context for the reasoning of the common folk of various groups at the time, bringing to life the Soviet and post-Soviet periods in these places. If you've experienced any of which, you'll get a good tragicomedy, otherwise the austereness may fly over your head, and the jokes you won't get (not that they're meant to be funny⸻the absurd attempts at poking fun is more human triumph than risible any play on words of these sad fucks can ever be, or very, very depressing, depending on your view on life and meaning). The brevity of the piece is disappointing, since it is quite an interesting read: if gulag and konzlager survivors could at write novel-length, this dude's life should've filled around 4 or 5 books of this one's length with observations and tales, albeit memory's a bitch when you're shitfaced most of the time, I'd wager. Great read.

Caroline Walton, Ivan Petrov✓M1.00
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Carl HonoréWfp0.35
The Night of the Triffids

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Simon ClarkM1.00
The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Craig DavidsonMb0.53
A Stranger in the Citadel

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Tobias S. Buckellwa0.14
The Broken Room

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Peter ClinesMm1.00
With Teeth

Absolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice.

Brian Keenem1.00
The Camp of the Saints

To the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years.

Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is.

Jean Raspail, Norman R. Shapiro (tr.)GWmp0.56
Terminal

To the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years.

Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is.

Brian Keenempb0.63
Sh*t Falls Up

To the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years.

Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is.

David Deutschm1.00
Los Angeles

To the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years.

Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is.

A.M. Homesbm0.25
Anomaly Flats

Zaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony.

Clayton SmithM1.00
Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity

Zaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony.

Martin CooperGF0.05
Pandemonium

Zaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony.

Ryan Harding, Lucas Mangumbwm0.41
In the Name of the Devil

Zaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony.

Jon Athanm1.00
Music for Torching

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

A.M. Homes1.00
Alone

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Brian KeeneM1.00
Witch: The Cursed Manuscripts

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Iain Rob Wrightmp1.00
Kill Whitey

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Brian Keenempw1.00
The Complex

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Brian KeeneM1.00
Tell No One

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Harlan Cobenwc0.05
Atmosphere

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Michael Laimomb0.33
Manners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won't

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Donald G. James, Dennis D. Jamesgfc0.03
Unknown Market Wizards

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Jack Schwager✓M1.00
Ripped from the Headlines! The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Harold Schechterm1.00
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Douglas Stone, Sheila Heenmk0.76
Letters to My Grandchildren: Thoughts On The Future

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Tony Bennmf0.84
The King in Yellow, Deluxe ed.

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Robert W. ChambersMab0.76
Castaways

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Brian Keenemp0.75
Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet

A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel.

Jimmy Moore, Eric WestmanKm1.00
Insulin: The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Kersten T. HallM✓1.00
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Mark Mazowergf0.10
The Paradox Hotel

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Rob Hartacw0.07
One Night Stands

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Lawrence Blockmpc0.62
The Teaching

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

T.O. Paine♀a0.04
The Ocean of Churn

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Sanjeev Sanyalmb0.48
The Misfortures of Alfonso Ramirez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th Century Pirates

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Fabio Lorez Lazarob0.16
Vespers

Documents the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together.

Jeff Rovinb0.13
Hulda: 2 - The Island

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Ragnar JonassonM1.00
Dark Iceland: 1 - Snowblind

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Ragnar Jonassonm1.00
Virtue of Selfishness

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Ayn Rand✔K1.00
Dark Iceland: 2 - Nightblind

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Ragnar Jonassonm1.00
Castle of Otranto

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Horace Walpoleb0.43
Mother Ship

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Scott Bartlettb0.12
The Chrysalids

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

John WyndhamMm1.00
Melmoth the Wanderer

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Charles Maturinbm0.08
The Monk

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Matthew Gregory Lewisb0.05
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam

Icelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for The Island, thinking of the movie Shutter Island, with which it only shares insular locations, nevertheless it wasn't disappointing. Hours ago, I finish Snowblind by the selfsame author, and have begun the second in that series. Those share with this book the following: all characters receive backstory, motivation, and either development or refinement. It is rare to have an impartial spectator divvying of his time amongst all actors, major or minor, filling in blanks, adding nuiance, tints and shades, credibility or believability. That and the setting and atmosphere I most enjoyed about it. Additionally, even though I said there's no lead, the investigating officer, since this is almost a detective novel, but not really, is female and very female, very normal, and, I don't want to repeat myself, but, believable. No pacing issues, no over-the-top or superhuman bullshit. Nothing's been hidden from the reader to be noticed only by Holmes to then spew bullshit, everything written seems carefully deliberated, and is never in deficit or excess.

Robert Spencermk0.91
The Cat Who Saved Books

The book childishly, in that cookie-cutter Japanese way, tackles what books are worth, what one's time is worth, how books should be interacted with. I recall an article that was objectively wrong in some of its author's assumption or presumptions, and more moralistic and holier-than-thou than informative, argumentative, comparative from what I recall; since the topic is dear to me, it left a bad taste in my mouth, that of missing out on a challenge, on something new, more, better. This short book presents that article's arguments in a way, as well as fictitious examples. I appreciate the book, I do. If you'd cut out the relationship with the girl and the other classmate altogether, and made the main either a normal child (rather than a Japanese one⸻cookie-cutter self-insert with B&W worldview), or just a hooman bean, it'd've'n a been great. Although I disagree with a child another person literally shouting out you 'no, you dont live books, bc i dont do that!' I like the ideas and challenges as food for thought. Think snacks. Brain gum.

Ultimately, a combination of the first two labyrinths' masters' and the protag's reading styles, one'd get the best of all, since neither is endless repetition, with or without depth, inherently good, neither is ceaseless novelty chasing, neither is there sufficient time to read all books deliberately, carefully, taking notes, taking one's time. Commenting on the side of the publisher is hard, on authors' too. Some author have worked over one odd jobs for decades before 'making it', that is, making enough sustain theirselves and or families.

Sosuke NatsukawaMpc1.00
The Midnight Library

Annoying, unappreciative, stup–-, irrational woman main that gets to have her cake several times over. And she doesn't fucking choke to death on it in the end. What a disappoint. Old idea, so-so execution, acts 1 and 2 are meh. Not all women are boring and stupid and predictable children; write a good woman character for fucking woman, for fuck's sack. T_T

Matt HaigMc1.00
Old School

Could've'n a mix of The Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poet Society, but nah, let's be boring. 40% and nothing of note has happened, the main hasn't developed, regressed, progressed, changed.Unsatisfactory and offers nothing.

Tobias Wolffbwm0.39
Ms. Vengeance

Earlier novel, one of of the 3⸺4 that are in a shared universe (dr sadist, mr snuff, and sth else), each exploring the a character, setting, background. Is okay, but somewhat bland and predictable compared to other of his works.

Jon AthanMp1.00
Possessed

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Thomas Allenb0.33
Or Else

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Joe Hartbwm0.21
Inspector McLean: 03 - The Hangman's Song

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

James Oswaldmp1.00
The Physics of the Dead

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Luke Smitherdmb0.21
Dr. Sadist

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Jon AthanMp1.00
Reasons to Stay Alive

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Matt Haigpwc0.08
Erewhon

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Samuel Butlermb0.38
Ruined City

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Nevil Shuteb0.19
The Temps

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Andrew DeYoungwg0.21
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Kim Fumb0.83
Alien: Colony War

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

David M. Barnettmb0.72
The Crying of Lot 49

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Thomas Pynchon1.00
Lost in Tokyo: A Year of Sex, Sushi, and Suicide in the Real Japan

More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here.

Garett WilsonM1.00
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

Damn son, this is some boring-ass, trash writing from Norway's supposedly most prominent writer, English-wise.

Jo NesboBm0.34
Madness at Madison Mall

Main story kinda dragged out, suspense not often built up properly, releases also weak, making whole bland and easily forgettable. The few cards it had, were played suboptimally. But, this is one of his early novels, thank fuck.

Jon Athanmpw1.00
A Biography of the Pixel

20h audiobook, would be ~2e5, does meticulous background checks on literally everything, which starts to get annoying given this is supposed to be a narrative, no encyclopedia. At a point, I just stopped caring what happens, to whom, or for what reasons. Great, if you're into history, maybe, I guess..?

Alvy Ray Smithmb0.61
The Hellbound Heart

Meh, passable. Hard to believe this cunt is famous for this. Neither the gore is gore-y, nor the descriptions extensive, nor the intensity palpable. Take out the cenobites and it's a dump cheating wife story that takes place over a few paragraphs. The only saving grace is its brevity.

Clive Barkerm1.00
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

Great book. Critique tho: almost everything attempted to be interpolated from the events having occurred around 60s American (Ivy League) universities, which is not only oversimplifying, but missing key branches and looking at leaves only. The chapters on music/culture and abortion are also heavily moralized and one-sided, the former wrongly so, and would easily make one label Bork as 'an elitist old fart'.

Robert H. Bork✓✔1.00
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds

What is says on the tin, no more, no less, no politics, no inanity. Exactly what an M or bold M should be.

Brian ButterworthM1.00
Contact

Fuck me, this is some really bad writing. Specialitous + annoying woman protag. Insufferable.

Carl SaganAW0.09
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood through One Singular Career

Nice, perhaps too-short-to-be-really-enjoyable telling of Nic Cage's life and career, published around his fourth decade in the business. I'm a Cage fan and have been intrigued by this cool weirdo since childhood. The appended to the book catalog terse reviews plus ratings of each and every flick he's participated in is well appreciated. Stays on topic without jumping around, but does bad to stick too much to officials.

Keith PhippsM1.00
All the Lonely People

At first, I thought it was annoying, or all too perfect, but gradually, mister author washed over his built up sand castle to reveal a withered, sandblasted branch holding the thing together beautifully. The novel's jacket was discouraging, but the second and third acts made up for it. The novel tackles loneliness, addresses its consequences and its sufferers with propositions for undertakings. It reads as believable to a great degree, albeit a too optimistically, too luckily, that is, IRL, it'd be (much) worse. Nevertheless, this is the sort of book to bring people like myself to action, be it for myself, or others. Characters were well-formed, fully formed, that is, with clear motivations for their actions and thoughts, with histories, with un-clear-cut attitudes and relationships. Pondering what I'd want better and how, little stood out before remembering the flashbacks or the episodes taking place in the past. These were prominent in the first two acts, and color in the contours etched by the present's happenings, however, being in the past, they've not the same impact or import, and often felt as if they were diverting attention from the main course more often. Chaining ~85% of these right after the introductory chapter or two would have made for a more straightforwards experience, I would argue. Otherwise great novel.

Mike GayleM1.00
They're a Weird Mob

Defo find the audiobook! Has grade A voicing. The content itself is an entertaining travel-log/diary with funnies based on lingual and cultural misundertstandings, and stereotypes about an Italian magazine writer's 1950s relocation and ultimately establishing in Australia.

John O'Grady, Nino CulottaM1.00
From Seas to Stormy Seas

I got through two and change stories of the total seventeen. Fuck me. The editor's forward lines you up for disappointment. Maybe his editing style, taste, and appraisal ability are very far from mine, stronger in different areas, I don't know⸻but this is some mightily boring shit. I cared not about the setting, the characters, the premises, anything. Exerting yourself to be bored. Verily do I doubt anything would be different had I seen the paintings inspiring these stories.

V.A., Lawrence Block (ed.)b0.16
Horror in the Woods

So, it's 201705XX and this shit gets published. ... Pardon me, but how exactly did this pass the cutting room, or is this the heavily edited version we're getting? The cabin-in-the-woods slasher has been done how many hundreds of thousands of times since the 1960s on the cinema screen or page? The cannibalistic family or 'family' story has been reiterated on film, television, and literature, cheap and well-known. In my last 1.5a of reading, I've come across 4⸺5 of the latter, and over 10 of the former. Not a single character, motive, settings, motivation, description, action herein has not been elsewhere done far better, and given when it was published, one would think the author would be familiar with the the genre, with the competition. Well, no⸻this reads like babee's first horror novel, and babee's equipped with the vocabulary arsenal, sentence construction complexity, and lack or failure at seriousness/depth of a late teenager, and the predictability and repetitiousness of a senile. Characters are static, no development over the few hours this takes place over, and what is reveals is exaggerated for the purposes of easier contrasting of the otherwise nondescript characters.

Lee Mountfordwmp1.00
Tormented

A play on the psychiatric hospital horror. Characters have some depth and enough distinction from one another to not blend into a nameless, faceless, normal in the statistical sense blob of fictional flesh. This one had some promise and didn't fail too-too badly. Prolongation of the novel again is a major flaw, suspense-release curve is mostly flat.

Lee Mountfordm1.00
The Netherwell Horror

Takes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking.

Lee Mountfordbm1.00
Web

Takes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking.

John WyndhamM1.00
Ghostland: 1 - Ghost

Takes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking.

Duncan Ralstonw0.06
The Whisper Man

Takes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking.

Alex Northm1.00
Stringers

Hm. Promising, slightly entertaining first act, tailed by a noticeable change in both pace and tone, both for the worse, and ditto for the third. We have the nice premise of creatures having past lifetimes' experiences, or memories, but mostly knowledge being hunted for various reasons, among which by some weirdo 'extra-dimensional' race, that are, for all intents and purposes, magic and survival-type evil. Not overly consistent, but whatevs. Begrudgingly, the one character featuring depth and actual character got necked by an idiot 'savant'. Our protagonist and the necked bro see most of the development, sadly, and I say that because there was the opportunity ample for exploiting memes, subverting expectations, slapstick, stereotypes, etc., but, no. The neck bro is consistent, at least. Our main? A pallid facsimile attempting to hit some of the marks his clone in act one made, missing more often than not. Using jargon to the reader unfamiliar and never explained is also a no-no, rendering sentences into baby-talk at times. Same with the 'science' bits⸻it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it doesn't attempt hard scifi, at least. Supposedly there's a romance at the end..? These two exchanged, like, 2 paragraphs over the whole book, with no insinuations of anything being there. Second novel by this bloke, I'm hoping the first is better, and, if not, the third (nonextant).

Postscriptum. Reminiscent of

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee

Hm. Promising, slightly entertaining first act, tailed by a noticeable change in both pace and tone, both for the worse, and ditto for the third. We have the nice premise of creatures having past lifetimes' experiences, or memories, but mostly knowledge being hunted for various reasons, among which by some weirdo 'extra-dimensional' race, that are, for all intents and purposes, magic and survival-type evil. Not overly consistent, but whatevs. Begrudgingly, the one character featuring depth and actual character got necked by an idiot 'savant'. Our protagonist and the necked bro see most of the development, sadly, and I say that because there was the opportunity ample for exploiting memes, subverting expectations, slapstick, stereotypes, etc., but, no. The neck bro is consistent, at least. Our main? A pallid facsimile attempting to hit some of the marks his clone in act one made, missing more often than not. Using jargon to the reader unfamiliar and never explained is also a no-no, rendering sentences into baby-talk at times. Same with the 'science' bits⸻it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it doesn't attempt hard scifi, at least. Supposedly there's a romance at the end..? These two exchanged, like, 2 paragraphs over the whole book, with no insinuations of anything being there. Second novel by this bloke, I'm hoping the first is better, and, if not, the third (nonextant).

Postscriptum. Reminiscent of

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

[Citation needed.]⸻the book. Bitter; making okay-ish at times points but for/from bad reason-s/ing, providing little-to-no evidence and citation; hearsay; strawmaning; both often on point and off his rocker, missing the point; too often seeming to be adorned by rolls of aluminum foil as cranial coverage. Bloke has much to say, but I am not his targeted audience. He hasn't a way with words, is far-flung from the scientific method or rationality or objectivity, nor can he entertain ideas. Features wholly one-dimensional mental space. Overall, nothing was learned. The bold M is for its, to me, light entertainment value as an endless, unreferenced tirade from a would-be besodden uncle on Thanksgiving with his trifle of truths, truck-load of truisms. Low-key slides in (rather easily outright refutable) amuse-bouches at strategic places. The tone and wording are 89% wrong, defo not reaching anybody not already familiar with or convinced of the the points brought up within.

Jeff Berwick, Charlie RobinsonMgmkf1.00
Sleepwalk

[Citation needed.]⸻the book. Bitter; making okay-ish at times points but for/from bad reason-s/ing, providing little-to-no evidence and citation; hearsay; strawmaning; both often on point and off his rocker, missing the point; too often seeming to be adorned by rolls of aluminum foil as cranial coverage. Bloke has much to say, but I am not his targeted audience. He hasn't a way with words, is far-flung from the scientific method or rationality or objectivity, nor can he entertain ideas. Features wholly one-dimensional mental space. Overall, nothing was learned. The bold M is for its, to me, light entertainment value as an endless, unreferenced tirade from a would-be besodden uncle on Thanksgiving with his trifle of truths, truck-load of truisms. Low-key slides in (rather easily outright refutable) amuse-bouches at strategic places. The tone and wording are 89% wrong, defo not reaching anybody not already familiar with or convinced of the the points brought up within.

Dan ChaonM1.00
Nancy Goats

[Citation needed.]⸻the book. Bitter; making okay-ish at times points but for/from bad reason-s/ing, providing little-to-no evidence and citation; hearsay; strawmaning; both often on point and off his rocker, missing the point; too often seeming to be adorned by rolls of aluminum foil as cranial coverage. Bloke has much to say, but I am not his targeted audience. He hasn't a way with words, is far-flung from the scientific method or rationality or objectivity, nor can he entertain ideas. Features wholly one-dimensional mental space. Overall, nothing was learned. The bold M is for its, to me, light entertainment value as an endless, unreferenced tirade from a would-be besodden uncle on Thanksgiving with his trifle of truths, truck-load of truisms. Low-key slides in (rather easily outright refutable) amuse-bouches at strategic places. The tone and wording are 89% wrong, defo not reaching anybody not already familiar with or convinced of the the points brought up within.

Weston Ochsem1.00
The Goats

[Citation needed.]⸻the book. Bitter; making okay-ish at times points but for/from bad reason-s/ing, providing little-to-no evidence and citation; hearsay; strawmaning; both often on point and off his rocker, missing the point; too often seeming to be adorned by rolls of aluminum foil as cranial coverage. Bloke has much to say, but I am not his targeted audience. He hasn't a way with words, is far-flung from the scientific method or rationality or objectivity, nor can he entertain ideas. Features wholly one-dimensional mental space. Overall, nothing was learned. The bold M is for its, to me, light entertainment value as an endless, unreferenced tirade from a would-be besodden uncle on Thanksgiving with his trifle of truths, truck-load of truisms. Low-key slides in (rather easily outright refutable) amuse-bouches at strategic places. The tone and wording are 89% wrong, defo not reaching anybody not already familiar with or convinced of the the points brought up within.

Brock ColemM1.00
Of Goats and Gods

Old time pulp fiction series member, yet still just boring and meh. Gave it a wide berth, yet failed to make the tiniest of impacts.

Richard S. Shaverb0.52
Leviathan: Ghost Rig

Mediocre and bland, at the end predictable and just bad.

Lucas Pedersonmwp0.78
Buried in a Good Book

Annoying, woman writing. Slightly cringe too.

Tamara Berrya♀c0.04
All's Well

Annoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her.

Mona Awada♀w0.03
The Guillotine

Annoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her.

Lucas Pederson, Tim Marquitzw0.16
Doomino's: Apocalyptic Pizza Delivery

Annoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her.

Lucas Pedersonm1.00
The Men Who Stare at Goats

Fuck me. Compared to the movie, which, let's be honest, gave a humorous take on the source, which is incidentally this book, it's just a shitton of hearsay alongside what was dug up during the mid-00s on the subject. It's dry, too dry, but it also has zero science or explanation. I don't know if this is how military reports are or war journalism is, but only getting to resolution of the journo's questions kept me reading on. Good material, suboptimally conveyed. It can read like a boring (to me) novel, or a investigative report by some one dude.

Jon RonsonMb1.00
The Phlebotomist

Hm, for once, a decent-to-good novel featuring three females as the main protagonists. It certainly reads as something written during SARS-CoV2 times, or from somebody aware of China-style Marxist takeovers of society. A 60-yo and a 40⸺50-yo are the the bigguns, and a 14-yo smallun. To be honest, our main character, through whom most of the story is told, is predictable and annoying. The the naive, daft cunt of a human. Stereotypically bestial mother, kind of a Karen too, although harmless, meek, and weak. She does one thing well, namely being good with blood, possibly a medical nurse before the first bomb.

Weak point is the false dichotomization at times, and certainly the nigh cartoonish vilification and or characterization of the antagonists. Yes, pile on the hyperbole, the tropes, the stereotypes. Nuance would've not palliated the implied discussion on the subjects of mass subjugation, government propaganda, freedom, the impacts of centralized power and economy.

Chris PanatierM✓1.00
Permanent Record

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Edward SnowdenM1.00
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Karl Deisserothbw0.08
Erotomaniac

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Jon AthanmMp1.00
The Walking

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Bentley LittlemM1.00
Aliens: Infiltrator

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Weston OchseM✓1.00
The Art of Being

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Erich Frommgpwk0.35
Buyer's Market

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Peter Sotos1.00
The Want-Ad Killer

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Ann Rulem♀1.00
Lust Killer

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Andy Stackm♀b1.00
Dinocalypse: 1 - Dinocalypse Now

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Chuck Wendigmac0.26
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Douglas Adams✓a0.52
What Fresh Hell Is This?!

Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy.

Nick JamesMm1.00
The Influence

Bentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 The X up for grabs⸻, and both are exceeding long for what takes place, have random details thrown in, leading ultimately to nowhere, and has forced filling, or volume for the sake of volume, as if. It's mediocre to decent-ish, but they would've worked far better as a third of their originals lengths (usually around 110k words). The premises so far are chewed up old ideas, sprinkled with whatever's laying around. And the intensity is dialed back, with the snail speed of plot forwarding.

Bentley Littlem1.00
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates

Bentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 The X up for grabs⸻, and both are exceeding long for what takes place, have random details thrown in, leading ultimately to nowhere, and has forced filling, or volume for the sake of volume, as if. It's mediocre to decent-ish, but they would've worked far better as a third of their originals lengths (usually around 110k words). The premises so far are chewed up old ideas, sprinkled with whatever's laying around. And the intensity is dialed back, with the snail speed of plot forwarding.

Des Ekinm1.00
Sell Without Selling out: A Guide to Success on Your Own Terms

Bentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 The X up for grabs⸻, and both are exceeding long for what takes place, have random details thrown in, leading ultimately to nowhere, and has forced filling, or volume for the sake of volume, as if. It's mediocre to decent-ish, but they would've worked far better as a third of their originals lengths (usually around 110k words). The premises so far are chewed up old ideas, sprinkled with whatever's laying around. And the intensity is dialed back, with the snail speed of plot forwarding.

Andy Paulpwc0.14
Dead Body Disposal

Bentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 The X up for grabs⸻, and both are exceeding long for what takes place, have random details thrown in, leading ultimately to nowhere, and has forced filling, or volume for the sake of volume, as if. It's mediocre to decent-ish, but they would've worked far better as a third of their originals lengths (usually around 110k words). The premises so far are chewed up old ideas, sprinkled with whatever's laying around. And the intensity is dialed back, with the snail speed of plot forwarding.

Jon Athanmp1.00
Dead World

Bentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 The X up for grabs⸻, and both are exceeding long for what takes place, have random details thrown in, leading ultimately to nowhere, and has forced filling, or volume for the sake of volume, as if. It's mediocre to decent-ish, but they would've worked far better as a third of their originals lengths (usually around 110k words). The premises so far are chewed up old ideas, sprinkled with whatever's laying around. And the intensity is dialed back, with the snail speed of plot forwarding.

Lucas Pedersonwc0.05
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation

Way to show you bias, Matt, fisting them in at every obvious hole. Sheesh. Which is to say, the impact of the book is somewhat lessened, the reader put off, if not of the same persuasion and of lower standards of reasoning, which the author transgresses against every time the issue strikes a nerve, which, I'd say, is all too often. What you're talking about isn't bad because you espouse a mainstream religion (e.g., Catholicism, Protestantism, etc.), or whatever-the-fuck, it's bad because it doesn't work, hasn't worked, can't work, because it is internally inconsistent, doesn't hold any predictive power, is vastly more wrong/bad than right/good in its statements, predictions, actions. That small critique aside, I would say this is book portrays a man's attempt at grappling with a currently difficult to answer question by anybody on the Marxist left, anybody politically correct, or etc., and getting sidetracked into gender studies and its effects on children, adolescents, adults; the economy, public policy, and big pharma among others. While Matt doesn't give it a shake as fair as James A. Lindsay, he does try. The book is comprised of his thought process and various interviews with both victims and perpetrators; some history is covered in 2⸺3 individuals, but he got bogged down by the obtuseness of the language (mis-)used in their articles, is my presumption.

Matt WalshM1.00
Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Jacob Lund FiskermMk1.00
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Joseph Pieperm1.00
One Thousand Miles to Freedom

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Eusun Kim, Sebastien Falletti, David Tian (tr.)Mm1.00
Monsters

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Peter Cawdronwam0.12
Blackwater: 1 - The Flood

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Michael McDowellbm1.00
Blackwater: 2 - The Levee

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Michael McDowellBm0.33
On Disobedience and Other Essays

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Erich FrommmG0.84
The Hacking of the American Mind

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Robert H. Lustig1.15
Race Marxism

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

James A. Lindsay✓b✔1.00
Sunblind

A hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person.

Michael McBridemM1.00
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse

Very entertaining for me autobiographical recount of a German musician-turned-writer/humorist born 1962. Maybe it just appeals to my sensibilities, likings, maybe it really is funny. Not documentary, nor dry, handles more with episodic stories, i.e., names, places, characters needn't to be kept track of. I had fun, and would reread it too.

Heinz Strunk1.00
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Favorite of many TV chef and household name, I finally learn why so many like this bastard: the 60s' sex, drugs, and rock n' roll attitude, that of rebelling against decency, normalcy, or established anything, or its own sake, of beating and poisoning your body, and, ultimately, of being superficial (by which I mean, it was reactionary in being defined through what it opposes, out of which an aesthetic was born, which stuck unlike the attitude towards the' other', which didn't⸻because the latter changed (not gonna say 'evolved', lol)), that is, until he realized he may want to live a little longer and more stably, as he states around the end. He traverses his own history, pressing pause to tell stories, embellish, really, the minutae of the world. Somewhat of a snapshot of 70s, 80s, and 90s (coastal or big-city) America, its culture; and it's your kooky uncle Tony doing the exposé. Entertaining even if you don't like the guy, comme moi, but, to some degree, tolerate/excuse the actions/thoughts. I wish it were more vulgar, and longer, and had more stories, but no uncle is forever.

Anthony BourdainM1.00
The Psychology of Totalitarianism

An interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in The Omnipotent Government, it is nonetheless another valid one. An important distinction between them, for one, is that here it arises bottom-up as consequence of hoi poloi's mental state. He talks through 20. century history and attempts to apply his theory to the common cases of Italy, Germany, Russia, and China. This theory is not inimical to Mises' (or others) necessarily, but can help bridge the gap created by burdening one side (the left one, lol) with malice, disillusionment, disdain, greed, etc., whilst the other stays neutral. Rather, the people are split in three: neutral, docile/malleable, and skeptic/rebelling/opposing, (percentages, iirk, given for all historical examples), and their interactions make or break the emerging system. In presenting the motivations of the people, others may be move convinced to accept Mises' about the governing body.

Mattias Desmet1.00
Bullshit Jobs

An interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in The Omnipotent Government, it is nonetheless another valid one. An important distinction between them, for one, is that here it arises bottom-up as consequence of hoi poloi's mental state. He talks through 20. century history and attempts to apply his theory to the common cases of Italy, Germany, Russia, and China. This theory is not inimical to Mises' (or others) necessarily, but can help bridge the gap created by burdening one side (the left one, lol) with malice, disillusionment, disdain, greed, etc., whilst the other stays neutral. Rather, the people are split in three: neutral, docile/malleable, and skeptic/rebelling/opposing, (percentages, iirk, given for all historical examples), and their interactions make or break the emerging system. In presenting the motivations of the people, others may be move convinced to accept Mises' about the governing body.

David GraeberAKwm0.72
Offspring

An interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in The Omnipotent Government, it is nonetheless another valid one. An important distinction between them, for one, is that here it arises bottom-up as consequence of hoi poloi's mental state. He talks through 20. century history and attempts to apply his theory to the common cases of Italy, Germany, Russia, and China. This theory is not inimical to Mises' (or others) necessarily, but can help bridge the gap created by burdening one side (the left one, lol) with malice, disillusionment, disdain, greed, etc., whilst the other stays neutral. Rather, the people are split in three: neutral, docile/malleable, and skeptic/rebelling/opposing, (percentages, iirk, given for all historical examples), and their interactions make or break the emerging system. In presenting the motivations of the people, others may be move convinced to accept Mises' about the governing body.

Jack Ketchum1.00
The Girl Next Door

This hit hard. As hard as

Atheist Answers: Rational Responses to Religious Questions

Is what is says on the tin: 1-to-few-sentence-long answers to common/normie/stupid questions an atheist may get asked. A few times expands upon answers, but the gist can be gotten from a few pages, really. Possibly helpful to a new one experiencing issues with dogmatics or authoritarians.

Funny You Should Ask…: Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves

Is what is says on the tin: 1-to-few-sentence-long answers to common/normie/stupid questions an atheist may get asked. A few times expands upon answers, but the gist can be gotten from a few pages, really. Possibly helpful to a new one experiencing issues with dogmatics or authoritarians.

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Painfully prescient. Nothing significant has changed since its publication in 1949. The totalitarian, etatist/statist push of Marxian ideologies and movements was meticulously explained and substantiated back then. It is rather eerie... Common sense, basic economic theory and human psychology, and history are utilized to construct a single, clear train of thought that smashes through NatSoz sympathizers' baby claims and arguments, and likewise for fascists, socialists, communists, etc., etc., etc. Banger of a book.

Ludwig von Mises✔✔1.76
Gotrek and Felix: 01 - Trollslayer

Fourth (or still-less-than-tenth) attempt at getting into WH40K literature. The Black Library. The Boring-Cringe Library, more like... For once though, the writing is at least above mediocre and, at times, decent. Trollslayer is a collection of about 4⸺5 interwoven stories, that have naught to do with trolls, but provide the background paragraphs on the settings and the two main characters. There is a noticeable decrease in quality of novels by the same author over time. Extending a few fights taking place over a few days or months or years to 8e5 words with neither character developing anyhow is probably souldraining. The second of the presently nineteen (19) novels sticks way too much to its title. Josh Reynolds, who's written so seriously boring trash for the universe takes the reins from Nathan Long, whom I'm unfamiliar with. I didn't want to write a 1-sentence remark..

William KingM1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 02 - Skavenslayer

Fourth (or still-less-than-tenth) attempt at getting into WH40K literature. The Black Library. The Boring-Cringe Library, more like... For once though, the writing is at least above mediocre and, at times, decent. Trollslayer is a collection of about 4⸺5 interwoven stories, that have naught to do with trolls, but provide the background paragraphs on the settings and the two main characters. There is a noticeable decrease in quality of novels by the same author over time. Extending a few fights taking place over a few days or months or years to 8e5 words with neither character developing anyhow is probably souldraining. The second of the presently nineteen (19) novels sticks way too much to its title. Josh Reynolds, who's written so seriously boring trash for the universe takes the reins from Nathan Long, whom I'm unfamiliar with. I didn't want to write a 1-sentence remark..

William KingmM1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 03 - Daemonslayer

Welp, Daemonslayer was, as if, mostly non-combat and more of the same type of writing, slowly getting on my nerves. Again, overly long; in the Wastes several things made no sense as they were described, but that could be excused becuase muh Chaos. You could very well summarize the entirety of plot in 1⸺2 paragraphs. Worse still than Skavenslayer (which was mostly memeing on skavens. Which, it would seem, as I'm writing this after having finished Dragonslayer, exist mostly as a joke in the WH40K universe. Ha-ha, good joke, real kneeslapper⸻let's repeat it at ev-er-y skaven verbal exchange and opining). Every further title, the trend is, reads more unpleasantly than its predecessor, very noticeably so, and this isn't burnout, it's shabby, uninspired, second-rate work.

William Kingmb1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 04 - Dragonslayer

And Dragonslayer, which I am thirdway through with presently, is even worse: 3.3e5 words for what amounts to 2 sentences tops plotwise. The incessant overexaggeration (from the first book onward, mind you) reminds of Dragon Ball's power creep, only here we don't even get visuals, just a reexploitation of already stale words and phrases. I'm on the fence about allowing oppotunities for redemption to the interstitial novels and giving Nathan Long a go, reading this is tiring.

William Kingbmp1.00
Brutal Kunnin

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Mike Brookswmca0.32
The Infinite and the Divine

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Robert Rathwca0.08
Funny You Should Ask… Again: More of Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

QI Elveskmf0.63
Age of Sigmar: Dominion

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Darius Hinksbcw0.12
Zenarchy

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Kerry Thornleycfgm1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 05 - Beastslayer

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

William Kingbm0.92
The Bachelors

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Muriel SparkB0.13
Memento Mori

Orks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels.

Muriel SparkB0.05
Reality and Dreams

Nigh readable, but ultimately too slow and boring. Too English, and hence annoying, English in the stereotypical way, focuses (along with the above two books) on interpersonal relationships, but they're remote from what is human, or normal, or interesting... Altogether, I wouldn't say MS is my cuppa.

Muriel Sparkmb0.19
The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil

Nigh readable, but ultimately too slow and boring. Too English, and hence annoying, English in the stereotypical way, focuses (along with the above two books) on interpersonal relationships, but they're remote from what is human, or normal, or interesting... Altogether, I wouldn't say MS is my cuppa.

Seth MacFarlanem1.00
Vector Borne

Fuck me is this a tedious read: 3⸺4x the length its plot's worth, everything is needlessly prolonged, without throwing the reader a bone for their squandered time. A spoopy, ancient virus infects civilizations or peoples, disappears them in angst, panic, confusion, bloodlust. The last surviving members had had to seal away, burn, destroy, etc., those infected or themselves. And now it's happened again, who could've foreseen it, human arrogance spawning from perceived mastery over nature, over others.

Michael McBridembwa1.00
The Handyman

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Bentley Little1.00
The Haunted

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Bentley LittleM✓1.00
The Vanishing

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Bentley LittleMm1.00
The Town

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Bentley LittleMm1.00
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Alvin SchwartzWc0.11
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Robin SloanMm1.00
Rage

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Stephen KingMb1.00
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Nick OffermanmGa0.16
Sun and Steel

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Yukio MishimacW0.13
Roadkill

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Dennis E. Taylormg1.00
Sourdough

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Robin Sloanmbg0.55
Shibumi

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Trevanianb0.07
A Million Ways to Die in the West

Wow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus.

Seth MacFarlaneMp1.00
Ancient Evenings

The setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system.

Norman Mailer✓b1.00
The Backwoods

The setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system.

Edward Lee✔✓1.00
The Girl in the Attic

The setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system.

Jon Athan1.00
The Groomer

The setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system.

Jon AthanM✓p1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 08 - Orcslayer

The setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system.

Nathan Longm1.00
Stick a Flag in It: 1000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond

Humor aside, I'd bin it, since history is tediously boring. Otherwise, tolerable and almost enjoyable.

Arran LomasMb0.54
Am I Beautiful?

This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is.

Jon Athan✓✔1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 09 - Manslayer

This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is.

Nathan Longm1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 10 - Elfslayer

This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is.

Nathan Longm1.00
Communicate with Mastery: Speak with Conviction and Write for Impact

This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is.

J.D. Schramm, Kara Levy, Joel Petersonwc0.03
Gotrek and Felix: 10.5 - Slayer of the Storm God

This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is.

Nathan Longbm1.00
Party Games

A recent-ish one by jonboy, that, for the second time in my reading history of him, contains a more plausible plot, less edgy, extreme, or maybe you could call it more mundane, if not more realistic, since both occur only to differing rates. His influences are very clear, even if you've never watched the movies, as he states in the afterword, affirming what I'd thought throughout. I think, without having watched the movies, only seen trailers and having thought the concept predictable scare porn, he executed it very well, differing in that he focused not (only) on the victims, but mostly on the doers, presenting the other side. It was also of he shorter works, around 4e5, usually he goes for double that.

Jon Athan✓M1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 06 - Vampireslayer

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

William Kingmp1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 07 - Giantslayer

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

William Kingm1.00
What Is Communist Anarchism?

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

Alexander BerkhamGFc0.03
Gotrek and Felix: 11 - Shamanslayer

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

Nathan Longm1.00
Into the Wolves' Den

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

Jon AthanMpbc1.00
In Praise of Shadows

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

Junichiro Tanizakicfm0.29
The Summoning

Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me.

Bentley LittleMap1.00
51

Nice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of

M✓ac1.00
Unshattered: Overcoming Tragedy and Choosing a Beautiful Life

Nice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of

Who Are China's Walking Dead?: A Personal Journey into the Strange World of Communist Culture and Officialdom

Nice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of

The Smoke

Nice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of

The Quiet Man: McGarry Stateside

Nice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of

Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Anthony G. Jay✓k1.00
Clown in a Cornfield: 2 - Friendo Lives

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Adam CesareM✓1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 12 - Zombieslayer

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Nathan Longm1.00
Just the Arguments

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone✓M1.00
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Shoshana ZuboffkMBW0.79
Dark Imperium: 1 - Dark Imperium

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

Guy HaleyCW0.02
The Court of the Blind King

More so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids.

David Guymercb0.03
Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Controll

Josh Chin, Liza Linmbkw0.43
Hammerhal and Other Stories

C.L. Wernercbw0.03
Kingdom of Bones

James Rollinsbwf0.05
Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship

Dean Allen Haycockm?0.38
Gotrek and Felix: 13 - Road of Skulls

Josh Reynoldsmba0.32
Digital Minimalism

Way to state the obvious, nigger.

Cal NewportKm1.00
Gotrek and Felix: 14 - The Serpent Queen

Way to state the obvious, nigger.

Josh Reynoldsm0.30
Blood Sugar

Did not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho.

Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: EVENTS: Please don't put me on a panel with all white men. If I realize that in time, I will drop out, and I don't want to do that!
Big. fucking. yikes.
There were several hints at him being a left drone within the book, this is a confirmation. I'll attempt to read the read of his works, but it doesn't bode well for him.

Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past.

Daniel Kraus✓✔2.00
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain

Did not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho.

Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: EVENTS: Please don't put me on a panel with all white men. If I realize that in time, I will drop out, and I don't want to do that!
Big. fucking. yikes.
There were several hints at him being a left drone within the book, this is a confirmation. I'll attempt to read the read of his works, but it doesn't bode well for him.

Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past.

Jim KwikKcam0.35
Separating You: A Self-Help Book for the Lost, Lonely, and Psychotically Obsessed

Did not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho.

Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: EVENTS: Please don't put me on a panel with all white men. If I realize that in time, I will drop out, and I don't want to do that!
Big. fucking. yikes.
There were several hints at him being a left drone within the book, this is a confirmation. I'll attempt to read the read of his works, but it doesn't bode well for him.

Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past.

Jason CarsonMm1.00
Gotrek and Felix: Anthology

Did not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho.

Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: EVENTS: Please don't put me on a panel with all white men. If I realize that in time, I will drop out, and I don't want to do that!
Big. fucking. yikes.
There were several hints at him being a left drone within the book, this is a confirmation. I'll attempt to read the read of his works, but it doesn't bode well for him.

Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past.

V.A., Christian Dunn (ed.)m0.71
The Truth About Crypto

Way to regurgitate very biased, bullish-only level-above-normie info. Did not assuade my uncertainties, did not answer any questions of mine, asked no question. Normie book at best, bad advice at worst; it's another chump riding the hype train.

Ric EdelmanKcfm0.94
Succubi

Way to regurgitate very biased, bullish-only level-above-normie info. Did not assuade my uncertainties, did not answer any questions of mine, asked no question. Normie book at best, bad advice at worst; it's another chump riding the hype train.

Edward Lee✓✔1.00
Beautiful You

Very strange novel for Chuck. It reads like a lonely woman's poor, shitty chicklit. Horribly annoying too in featuring everything insufferable about twentieth century women, especially from the last few decades. I really want this to turn around, but how much do I have to invest? Not in the least enjoyable, absolutely nothing novel. Disappointing.

Chuck PalahniukAw0.24
Truth About Your Future

So, you're good start off your 7. or 8. layman finance-focused book by listing praise by a bunch of nobodies, foreword/s of no content, and an unnecessary introduction? And you're gonna follow that up with 5 chapters of nothing financial, or advisory, or new/novel/insightful? How. in. the. fuck. did this stupid cunt get published 8 times? How brain-dead are other people?! I am astounded, yet again.

Ric Edelmanawcfg0.17
Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are

Although it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others.

David J. LiebermanK✓Maf1.00
Black Thorn, White Rose

Although it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others.

V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.), Terri Windling (ed.)wba0.52
Mysterious Sea Stories

Although it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others.

V.A., William Pattrick (ed.)bm0.68
Walled Culture

Although it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others.

Glyn MoodyM✓1.00
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Although it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others.

J. David McSwaneFg0.02
Dawn of a Nazi Moon: 1

I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie Iron Sky, which shares the idea of a small group of the the best of the best of national socialist youths being sent to the Moon before the collapse of the third reich. Although I don't recall particularly enjoy that flick, I did finish it, whereas this cartoonish and irrational (with regards to im- and explicit goals of characters and factions) depiction of nazis is stereotypical, predictable, and hence insufferable. It also isn't historically accurate with regards the their traditions, principles, values, seemed to ascribe too much likewise to the 'good guys'. sigh

Douglas MacKinnonw0.28
Procedural Content Generation in Games

I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie Iron Sky, which shares the idea of a small group of the the best of the best of national socialist youths being sent to the Moon before the collapse of the third reich. Although I don't recall particularly enjoy that flick, I did finish it, whereas this cartoonish and irrational (with regards to im- and explicit goals of characters and factions) depiction of nazis is stereotypical, predictable, and hence insufferable. It also isn't historically accurate with regards the their traditions, principles, values, seemed to ascribe too much likewise to the 'good guys'. sigh

Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker, Mark J. Nelsonwm1.00
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie Iron Sky, which shares the idea of a small group of the the best of the best of national socialist youths being sent to the Moon before the collapse of the third reich. Although I don't recall particularly enjoy that flick, I did finish it, whereas this cartoonish and irrational (with regards to im- and explicit goals of characters and factions) depiction of nazis is stereotypical, predictable, and hence insufferable. It also isn't historically accurate with regards the their traditions, principles, values, seemed to ascribe too much likewise to the 'good guys'. sigh

Adam Hochschild✓M1.00
On Animals

I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie Iron Sky, which shares the idea of a small group of the the best of the best of national socialist youths being sent to the Moon before the collapse of the third reich. Although I don't recall particularly enjoy that flick, I did finish it, whereas this cartoonish and irrational (with regards to im- and explicit goals of characters and factions) depiction of nazis is stereotypical, predictable, and hence insufferable. It also isn't historically accurate with regards the their traditions, principles, values, seemed to ascribe too much likewise to the 'good guys'. sigh

Susan Orleanwa0.07
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie Iron Sky, which shares the idea of a small group of the the best of the best of national socialist youths being sent to the Moon before the collapse of the third reich. Although I don't recall particularly enjoy that flick, I did finish it, whereas this cartoonish and irrational (with regards to im- and explicit goals of characters and factions) depiction of nazis is stereotypical, predictable, and hence insufferable. It also isn't historically accurate with regards the their traditions, principles, values, seemed to ascribe too much likewise to the 'good guys'. sigh

J.W. Ockerm0.74
A Journey to the Northern Ocean

Observes and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' The Terror](The TerrorDan Simmons). I've not read travelogues, the Wikipedia article however heralds it as a great work for its objectivity (times were different, highly prejudiced), comprehensibility, breadth and depth. If you've even wondered how hunting, tracking, surviving, etc. in the Canadian Northern lands was back the day, this is a good start, as it's not quite ant/arctic levels of harsh weather and allows for bit of humor or entertainment.

Samuel HearneM1.00
The Carpet People

Observes and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' The Terror](The TerrorDan Simmons). I've not read travelogues, the Wikipedia article however heralds it as a great work for its objectivity (times were different, highly prejudiced), comprehensibility, breadth and depth. If you've even wondered how hunting, tracking, surviving, etc. in the Canadian Northern lands was back the day, this is a good start, as it's not quite ant/arctic levels of harsh weather and allows for bit of humor or entertainment.

Terry Pratchettm0.20
The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way

Observes and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' The Terror](The TerrorDan Simmons). I've not read travelogues, the Wikipedia article however heralds it as a great work for its objectivity (times were different, highly prejudiced), comprehensibility, breadth and depth. If you've even wondered how hunting, tracking, surviving, etc. in the Canadian Northern lands was back the day, this is a good start, as it's not quite ant/arctic levels of harsh weather and allows for bit of humor or entertainment.

David Lindleykm0.10
We Have Been Harmonized: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

κινο, also fuck greeks and or greek.

Kai Strittmatter, Ruth Martin (tr.)1.00
A Universe from Nothing

κινο, also fuck greeks and or greek.

Lawrence M. KraussM✓1.00
Robert Hunter: 12 - Genesis

κινο, also fuck greeks and or greek.

Chris CarterM1.00
The Day of the Locust

Platitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy.

Nathanael West?m0.61
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Platitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy.

Peter S. Goodmankmgf0.56
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 03

Platitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy.

V.A., Stephen Jones (ed.), Ramsey Campbell (ed.)m0.94
Burnt Tongues

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

V.A., Chuck Palahniuk (ed.), Richard Thomas (ed.), Dennis Widmyer (ed.)1.00
Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Rebecca Myerswm0.23
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Chuck Palahniukmb0.25
Jesus, Prince of Hell

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Adam Weishaupt (x)mwc0.51
Illuminati's Six Dimensional Universe

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Adam Weishaupt (x)Wc0.01
Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Alexander Zaitchikmk0.17
Tower 57

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Drew Platt, J.T. Cacibaudamp0.41
Medical Terminology Made Simple and Easy: A Comprehensive Review of the Language of Medicine for Medical Professionals and Nursing Students

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Anna Curranmb0.36
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years.

Shirley JacksonAm?0.14
Flicker

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Theodore Roszak✓✔1.00
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Mark BergenGfw0.09
From Satori to Silicon Valley

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Theodore RoszakmM?0.25
Most Triumphant: The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Alex Pappademasmga0.62
A Large Measure of Snow

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Denzil Meyrickm0.23
Free Culture

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Lawrence Lessigmb0.23
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Ian Gatelyb0.03
Wired for Love: 1 - Re-Wired

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Greg Dragonm1.00
Wired for Love: 2 - Single Wired Female

Reading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, layers 'n shiet. Absolute masterpiece in pacing, from 'normal' novel to world-wide conspiracy spanning few millenia. The book is both compelling both as story and as critique at modern-day cinema, and that easily is translated to all (nascent?) artistic media. 'Compelling' is apt, this is a page-turner, it's not a slow-burner, but the tempo does only increase, and not linearly so. 2018's Under the Silver Lake came to mind towards the end⸻they are comparable in how the scope or shadow of the conspiracy/mystery grows over and around the main character, subsuming him ultimately, both not exactly entertaining, but, to reiterate, compelling. I wish I could better express myself... I apologize.

Greg Dragonmb0.36
John Dies at the End: 4 - If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

Sammy and the Cheese: 2 - Razzmatazz

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Well, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of

My Dark Vanessa

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

Kate Elizabeth Russela✓1.00
The Murderbot Diaries: 1 - All Systems Red

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

Martha Wellsbp♀m0.36
Some Fruits of Solitude

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

William PennGwm0.61
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

Robin Dunbarmk1.00
Leech

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

Hiron EnnesMA0.73
The Doll House

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

Edward Lee✓M1.00
The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Terror

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

August DerlethMmp1.00
The Lurker at the Threshold

Here's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe), and not unduly so, as it follows a drum rolls Vanessa from the age of 15 to 32, skipping between past, major plot points and the present, serving as elongated epilogue. The author says she'd been fleshing out the novel, its ideas since teenagehood, with thoughts and experiencing coloring in details as she paces through time. Even false, the hormonal carpet bombing of teenager(female)s is convincing from observation and memory both.

Our curly-haired redhead (<3!) develops an interesting relationship to her English literature teacher at a bordering school in Maine. The boarding school serves mostly to sequester youths from comfort, familiarity, security, and allow them to overcome this via tough love, discipline, extracurricular activities, study, self-discovery; it isn't single-sexed, nor Harvard-prep-tier, but still considered fancy-shmancy for blue-collars, like V.'s parents, although she's accepted there with a scholarship. Rebellous and conscious, our protag distances herself from family and friends old, becoming obsessed with S.. I am under what ma boi found unresolved/unclear/unsettled with V. 's relation to the aforementioned novel or the teacher. (I'll edit this, if he responds and I remember.) I see a clingy, needy youth, having wasted her youth or potential (whatever the fuck that is⸻amarite, Dylan Moran?) on somebody, who recognized a diamond in the rough, but was bewitched on both levels. The combo left both for the worse. Too much fucky-wucky, and not enough teacher/parent/friend-y time, I guess..?

V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced.

Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) Lolita, and to a less degree (than with that bluff) all stories exploring power imbalances, contrasts, sexualization, violence, I needed to finish this, grating as Vanessa and all other women in the novel were, the placid, faux, emotional, predictable b.s.. This was written by a woman, Kate-y-poo, and it shows. E.g., just about no sane, normal guy is happy to constantly orally sexually engage his partner, time and time again, yet Katey tosses my salad and makes it look as if V. is doing S. a favor in spreading her legs, we get gratuitous cunnilingus scene, that I'd say are disgusting only in being chick lit fodder, and annoying to read/suffer. I am unsure as to whether my misanthropy or my misogyny flared up more, however, credit is due, fore she wrote well the rest, the various parents and adults, in general, and, for a female-written novel released in 2021, it is fairly balanced and unleaning, showing both/all major sides to issues from Vanessa's mind and or hindsight, where tacit admissions substitute her outward emotions and positions for her (allegedly) true ones. And I say allegedly, because as her therapist remark, she's brim-filled with thoughts and emotions, most immature, rough, liquid.

The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (for fucking whomst've, you lonelyass nigger?⸻Overall, would rec for those read Lolita, wanting more and or the female side, in a way, the female-ness doesn't ruin it, but it dampens an almost good male support, and overall plot; but then again, she wanted to tell a story of 'abuse', I think, didn't stick around for the interview in the end of the abook, seemed annoying; whatever back to that quotaroo, bye):

Strane says I need to contextualize my reluctance to grow up, that everyone my age is drawn to self-victimization. 'And that mentality is especially difficult for young women to resist,' he says. 'The world has a vested interest in keeping you helpless.' He says as a culture we treat victimhood as an extension of childhood. So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.

August DerlethMmp0.10
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

A look of how existentialism came to be, the whole history and key figures. Slightly above decent for a one-time read, at times boring due to focusing on, to me, irrelevant details of said cunts. Minus points for skipping by Kafka.

William BarrettMk1.00
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

Focuses strongly on the people, but the narrator is boring, although the story is nice. Gave me some outrageous (for the 70s and 80s) fic to read. It'll be shit, I'll do one a later today before retiring to something decent (Beatrice Sparks).

Rick EmersonMmb0.43
The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan

Much of the Interstellar and Dunkirk bits I fastforwarded, since I like neither thematically, and the former musically especially. Was nevertheless interesting to hear the man's thoughts and process, albeit there really isn't much to it, he just good in a field dominated by safe choices.

Tom ShoneMm0.87
Go Ask Alice

Yeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s.

Beatrice SparksWPg♀1.00
Jay's Journal

Yeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s.

Beatrice SparksWPgb♀0.33
It Happened to Nancy

Yeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s.

Beatrice SparksWgp♀b0.18
Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets

Yeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s.

Beatrice Sparkswgb♀0.07
The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

James R. Stoner Jr., Donna M. Hughes (ed.)g♀fm1.00
Finding Katie: The Diary of Anonymous, a Teenager in Foster Care

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

Beatrice Sparkswb♀0.44
The Friendly Orange Glow

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

Brian Dearmb0.35
100 Animals That Can F*cking End You

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

Mamadou Ndiaye1.00
Geronimo's Story of His Life

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

Geronimom1.00
Harlem Detective: 1 - A Rage in Harlem

Part uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree.

The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.

The first point to make is that sexual desire belongs to that aspect of the human being which we summarize in the concept of the person. Many of the things that we experience we experience as animals, and what we feel does not normally depend upon thought, intention, or personality. We feel the same pain from a wound that a dog might feel if wounded in the same way. But there are other states of mind that only persons can experience. While a dog can experience aggression, he cannot experience remorse or shame, cannot wonder about the laws of nature, cannot judge another dog morally, and so on.

Chester HimesM1.33
The Street of Crocodiles

A small short story collection, all composed astoundingly beautifully. Bruno Schulz was described in the foreword and his wiki article as a national treasure of a Jewish Polish writer, and even past Celina Wieniewska's translation, I would believe that. Had I the time to learn 1930s Polish, I would, just to read this. Critically however, he goes overboard in description⸻words, wordings, comparisons, literary devices used in every sentence cloy. It is only the virtuosic variety and novelty employed that somewhat mellow it out. As the foreword says, the tales are autobiographical in nature, all about the author's quaint hometown, his childhood memories. Style reigns here, whereas the substance of each could charitably be decocted to a paragraph.
Thank (You) for mentioning him, or should I say lowkey recommending Jewish media. Lastly, two nice quotes:

He walked with an awkward oblique roll in an undecided direction, along a shaky and uncertain line. His usual mood was one of indefinite basic sadness. He had the dejected helplessness of an orphan⸻an inability to fill the emptiness of life between the sensational events of meals. This was reflected in the aimlessness of his movements, in his irrational fits of melancholia, his sad whimpering, and his inability to settle down in any one place. Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness. Oh, how a young and meager life, brought forth from familiar darkness, from the homely warmth of a mother's womb into a large, foreign, bright world, shrinks and retreats and recoils from accepting the undertaking⸻and with what aversion and disappointment!

Father's experiments did not, in spite of expectations, produce any revolution in the life of the community. The grafting of mesmerism on the body of modern physics did not prove fertile. It was not because there was no grain of truth in Father's discoveries. But truth is not a decisive factor for the success of an idea. Our metaphysical hunger is limited and can be satisfied quickly. Father was just standing on the threshold of new revelations when we, the ranks of his adherents and followers, began to succumb to discouragement and anarchy. The signs of impatience became more and more frequent: there were even open protestations. Our nature rebelled against the relaxation of fundamental laws; we were fed up with miracles and wished to return to the old, familiar, solid prose of the eternal order. And Father understood this. He understood that he had gone too far, and put a rein on the flight of his fancies.

Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska (tr.)1.00
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Count Dankula released a video on this bloke recently. Someone so under the auspices of a guardian angel to have elevated (dumb) luck to a new plane, one I had to visit. So, like a good little Asian tourist boy/be-middle-age-crisised man, I took out my camera, put on my best Hawaiian shirt, leather sandals and kneesocks, and I hoped on over to project gutenberg where one can find many an old document, this title included.

Now, since nineteenth century English is a tad different from present-day ⸻ and whatever carnage of that the self-pronounced Lord spoke would be harder to enunciate, I had to use a flite to get some audio for this. And, oh boy-o, I was surprised that it the blasphemous spelling sieved through the rules for pronunciation results in a surprising amount of corrects. Really. What the poor engine slarterd (slaughtered) was the lack of any punctuation, which made for paragraph-long sentences, separated by newlines, in a veeeery slowly falling intonation. Like, cosmically glacially. Capitalization isn't sporadic, but isn't regular either. You need a buffer maybe 5 times the size of your normal reading's one to keep track of the noisom fray's hardly spotable threads, to piece together, to hopefully make sense of a part of a paragraph. But, it reminds also of speaking to normal people, in a way. Fucking hell I hate people.

So, I could present here my translation of the drivel, with possible interpretation; however, even stream-of-consciousness novels aren't this, this disheveled. Dankula, or his producer, was right in assessing Timmy to be a masterful troll. There is no interparagraph continuity, and often enough no intra- either. The tone is at least not smugly highfalutin. You question the man more than yourself. Just like crosswords are more routine common knowledge retrieval, this too is mentally challenging in a very simple way, neither dangle any reward, nor deceive you. A novelty, sure, but also a one-trick pony.

Timothy DexterMmW1.00
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

Count Dankula released a video on this bloke recently. Someone so under the auspices of a guardian angel to have elevated (dumb) luck to a new plane, one I had to visit. So, like a good little Asian tourist boy/be-middle-age-crisised man, I took out my camera, put on my best Hawaiian shirt, leather sandals and kneesocks, and I hoped on over to project gutenberg where one can find many an old document, this title included.

Now, since nineteenth century English is a tad different from present-day ⸻ and whatever carnage of that the self-pronounced Lord spoke would be harder to enunciate, I had to use a flite to get some audio for this. And, oh boy-o, I was surprised that it the blasphemous spelling sieved through the rules for pronunciation results in a surprising amount of corrects. Really. What the poor engine slarterd (slaughtered) was the lack of any punctuation, which made for paragraph-long sentences, separated by newlines, in a veeeery slowly falling intonation. Like, cosmically glacially. Capitalization isn't sporadic, but isn't regular either. You need a buffer maybe 5 times the size of your normal reading's one to keep track of the noisom fray's hardly spotable threads, to piece together, to hopefully make sense of a part of a paragraph. But, it reminds also of speaking to normal people, in a way. Fucking hell I hate people.

So, I could present here my translation of the drivel, with possible interpretation; however, even stream-of-consciousness novels aren't this, this disheveled. Dankula, or his producer, was right in assessing Timmy to be a masterful troll. There is no interparagraph continuity, and often enough no intra- either. The tone is at least not smugly highfalutin. You question the man more than yourself. Just like crosswords are more routine common knowledge retrieval, this too is mentally challenging in a very simple way, neither dangle any reward, nor deceive you. A novelty, sure, but also a one-trick pony.

Jon Ronsonmka1.00
Tender Is the Flesh

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (tr.)1.00
John Dies at the End: 1 - John Dies at the End

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Jason Pargin1.21
Dark Sanctuary

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

H.B. Gregorymb0.51
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex An Unexpected History

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Samantha Coleg♀0.13
Chinese Girl in the Ghetto

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Ying MaM1.00
The Butcher and the Wren

Interdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, Zart ist das Fleisch., a literal translation into German of the title, used to be something I said a jokingly about young girls when in uni, so there's that... The story can be summarized as, virus comes, humans commit mass animal genocide and legalize and red-tape cannibalism. The quality or lack of moral qualms of all, and their and the main's, who is slightly neutral/objective and intelligent-ish, thoughts and observations are ripe for discussion.

So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present.

I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):

He doesn't ask her anything. His sister's words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.

'Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?'

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Alaina Urquhartmw0.28
Trout Fishing in America

Never heard of this bloke, but the two forewords strictly put him in the beat generation, who writing I kinda like, well, the less pretentious, commie, and idiotic of the bunch, at least. But here was a cunt who was already aged when it was coming about, not a lost adolescent or twenty-something, somebody old enough to have a two–three grandkids. So I bit, hard.
The writing right off is beat, not doubt, but has a maturity, finesse or refinement, eloquence to it, that speak either to mucho reworking or simply good writing.
Well, I could also be yanking shit out my ass and peddling it as (refined) opinions. Sadly, I'm the only cunt in conversation with myself, so I have to call myself out: YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT, BOO.

Richard Brautigan1.00
Welcome to Nowhere

Never heard of this bloke, but the two forewords strictly put him in the beat generation, who writing I kinda like, well, the less pretentious, commie, and idiotic of the bunch, at least. But here was a cunt who was already aged when it was coming about, not a lost adolescent or twenty-something, somebody old enough to have a two–three grandkids. So I bit, hard.
The writing right off is beat, not doubt, but has a maturity, finesse or refinement, eloquence to it, that speak either to mucho reworking or simply good writing.
Well, I could also be yanking shit out my ass and peddling it as (refined) opinions. Sadly, I'm the only cunt in conversation with myself, so I have to call myself out: YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT, BOO.

Caimh McDonnellm0.16
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Now here is a book well worth reading wholly. >b-but why tho?Ah, I'm glad you so asked (the 'asked' as pronounced by Ron Jeremy in Cramming for College; ahem anyyyway...) Over the past 1⸺1.5a, questions and topics discussed herein have been popping in and out of my head:

  • what is a 'read' book?
  • what is 'reading'?
  • can you 'unread' a book?
  • how long does a 'read' book stay 'read'?
  • are there critea to be met for either?
  • how many people would agree to those? should there be a standard?
  • how much does (should?) the artist matter?
  • and how much does (should?) the work?
  • the context, the reader (here excluded from context, obviously)?

I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it.

I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one person reader. The two-dimensional classification of subjective rating, in descending order: ++, +, (neutral is nothing),-, --; and familiarity, in ascending order: F (forgotten), H (heard of), S (skimmed); mind you, the absence of Read and Unread here is crucial, buttressing the thesis that of the continual nature of reading and unreading, or, more generally, of the human experience.

Pierre Bayard✓✔1.00
Books Before Typography

Now here is a book well worth reading wholly. >b-but why tho?Ah, I'm glad you so asked (the 'asked' as pronounced by Ron Jeremy in Cramming for College; ahem anyyyway...) Over the past 1⸺1.5a, questions and topics discussed herein have been popping in and out of my head:

  • what is a 'read' book?
  • what is 'reading'?
  • can you 'unread' a book?
  • how long does a 'read' book stay 'read'?
  • are there critea to be met for either?
  • how many people would agree to those? should there be a standard?
  • how much does (should?) the artist matter?
  • and how much does (should?) the work?
  • the context, the reader (here excluded from context, obviously)?

I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it.

I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one person reader. The two-dimensional classification of subjective rating, in descending order: ++, +, (neutral is nothing),-, --; and familiarity, in ascending order: F (forgotten), H (heard of), S (skimmed); mind you, the absence of Read and Unread here is crucial, buttressing the thesis that of the continual nature of reading and unreading, or, more generally, of the human experience.

Frederick W. Hamiltonm1.00
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step Program

Now here is a book well worth reading wholly. >b-but why tho?Ah, I'm glad you so asked (the 'asked' as pronounced by Ron Jeremy in Cramming for College; ahem anyyyway...) Over the past 1⸺1.5a, questions and topics discussed herein have been popping in and out of my head:

  • what is a 'read' book?
  • what is 'reading'?
  • can you 'unread' a book?
  • how long does a 'read' book stay 'read'?
  • are there critea to be met for either?
  • how many people would agree to those? should there be a standard?
  • how much does (should?) the artist matter?
  • and how much does (should?) the work?
  • the context, the reader (here excluded from context, obviously)?

I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it.

I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one person reader. The two-dimensional classification of subjective rating, in descending order: ++, +, (neutral is nothing),-, --; and familiarity, in ascending order: F (forgotten), H (heard of), S (skimmed); mind you, the absence of Read and Unread here is crucial, buttressing the thesis that of the continual nature of reading and unreading, or, more generally, of the human experience.

William J. KnausKpc0.12
Hopscotch

So! Second reading of Hopity Scotch, this time the second of the two author-suggested (canonical?) chapter sequences, the one supposedly elucidating the prot's madness. The book can be separated into parts by location: Paris, France and Montevideo, Argentina; by time: past, present; by focal point/perspective: the clochards, the Circle's members, randos, infants, animals, the city. Rather than predictably alternating chapters following protagonists and or antagonists, the frame shifts hecticly, and (almost?) all see some personification, corporification.

At after around half, and mind you, this is a 185k word novel, I'm feeling more lost than found; I'm not the dots, I'm not even seeing the dots. The interspersions, I don't find, color in the blanks created by the misordering. I'm too impatient and am feeling like shit every day, and not taking care of myself, so reading something that prerequisites neuron utilization was perhaps a mistake. Third time could be the charm, I guess..? Anyway, I'm still enjoying this entangled medusa head of a novel.

There is somewhat of a pretentious element too. As well as a Marxist one. They mingle, of course. I'd realized this on listening through two guys' 'opinions' on the books from yt. And, upon rewinding, yes, yes there are such elements. South America had a rocky twentieth century with violent coups d'état, militarism, civil wars, half the Marxist ideologies from Europe, dictatorships, cults, idolatry, and same ol' poverty; so it is understandable that the majority of its faux intelligensia would the same clowns. Julio lived in 1950s Paris, another great procrustean bed of absurd serious silliness. The 'intellectual' conversations held within the Circle mostly constitute dragon-chasing, (auto-)fellating, and garrulous inanity. Exercise for the hell of it. La Maga is perhaps the one worthwhile character in the entire novel.
Still a good read, though. I don't think I'll be rereading it anytime soon, let alone in any new manner, maybe I....
You know, me? This not, especially me, is not worth multiple rereads. Do it once, before it gets tedious, when baker's pa

Note, I seem to have deleted part of the review while editing something else. Not paying attention during work with multiple selections. fixme

Julio CortazarM✓p2.26
No Longer Human

Right off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous.

So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential.
Each character Yozo interacts with, their outline I can point out in my life, they constitute the normal, the anticipated. Perhaps everybody can, I'd love to talk to somebody about this. He stands out wrong. Like an mildly retarded alien born into privilege.

What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:

One of my tragic flaws is the compulsion to add some sort of embellishment to every situation⸻a quality which has made people call me at times a liar⸻but I have almost never embellished in order to bring myself any advantage; it was rather that I had a strangulating fear of that cataclysmic change in the atmosphere the instant the flow of a conversation flagged, and even when I knew that it would later turn to my disadvantage, I frequently felt obliged to add, almost inadvertently, my word of embellishment, out of a desire to please born of my usual desperate mania for service. This may have been a twisted form of my weakness, an idiocy, but the habit it engendered was taken full advantage of by the so-called honest citizens of the world.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody. If I had ever attempted to voice anything in the nature of a protest, even a single mumbled word, the whole of society⸻and not only Flatfish⸻would undoubtedly have cried out flabbergasted, 'Imagine the audacity of him talking like that!' Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best is now. as Malf says (or used to).
This is a story about a mentally ill, possibly retarded, aesthetically-pleasing-to-females addict. Nothing more.

Osamu DazaiacM1.15
Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Right off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous.

So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential.
Each character Yozo interacts with, their outline I can point out in my life, they constitute the normal, the anticipated. Perhaps everybody can, I'd love to talk to somebody about this. He stands out wrong. Like an mildly retarded alien born into privilege.

What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:

One of my tragic flaws is the compulsion to add some sort of embellishment to every situation⸻a quality which has made people call me at times a liar⸻but I have almost never embellished in order to bring myself any advantage; it was rather that I had a strangulating fear of that cataclysmic change in the atmosphere the instant the flow of a conversation flagged, and even when I knew that it would later turn to my disadvantage, I frequently felt obliged to add, almost inadvertently, my word of embellishment, out of a desire to please born of my usual desperate mania for service. This may have been a twisted form of my weakness, an idiocy, but the habit it engendered was taken full advantage of by the so-called honest citizens of the world.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody. If I had ever attempted to voice anything in the nature of a protest, even a single mumbled word, the whole of society⸻and not only Flatfish⸻would undoubtedly have cried out flabbergasted, 'Imagine the audacity of him talking like that!' Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best is now. as Malf says (or used to).
This is a story about a mentally ill, possibly retarded, aesthetically-pleasing-to-females addict. Nothing more.

Essi VidingkM1.00
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Right off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous.

So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential.
Each character Yozo interacts with, their outline I can point out in my life, they constitute the normal, the anticipated. Perhaps everybody can, I'd love to talk to somebody about this. He stands out wrong. Like an mildly retarded alien born into privilege.

What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:

One of my tragic flaws is the compulsion to add some sort of embellishment to every situation⸻a quality which has made people call me at times a liar⸻but I have almost never embellished in order to bring myself any advantage; it was rather that I had a strangulating fear of that cataclysmic change in the atmosphere the instant the flow of a conversation flagged, and even when I knew that it would later turn to my disadvantage, I frequently felt obliged to add, almost inadvertently, my word of embellishment, out of a desire to please born of my usual desperate mania for service. This may have been a twisted form of my weakness, an idiocy, but the habit it engendered was taken full advantage of by the so-called honest citizens of the world.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody. If I had ever attempted to voice anything in the nature of a protest, even a single mumbled word, the whole of society⸻and not only Flatfish⸻would undoubtedly have cried out flabbergasted, 'Imagine the audacity of him talking like that!' Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best is now. as Malf says (or used to).
This is a story about a mentally ill, possibly retarded, aesthetically-pleasing-to-females addict. Nothing more.

Kenzaburo Oe, Marion Boyars (tr.)Mm1.00
In Praise of Good Bookstores

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Jeff DeutschM✓j1.00
Jesus' Son

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Denis JohnsonMm1.00
Gaunt's Ghosts: 1 - First and Only

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Dan Abnettcwp0.01
Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Guy Haleywcp0.01
The Lemon Man

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Keith Brutonwc0.03
Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Anthony GalvinMm1.00
Last Drinks

Very jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha.
I'm not laughing :t but then again, I laugh at myself and march on.
The intensity within is often great, similar to what I at times feel, so there's that, anyway, good, bad, tuna salad, pumpkin. alice.

Andrew McGahanmb0.14
United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

I found this food interesting because it, like

Torture Mom

I found this food interesting because it, like

Man-Eater

I found this food interesting because it, like

Pests

I found this food interesting because it, like

Trust Me

I found this food interesting because it, like

Black Widow

I found this food interesting because it, like

Hojoki: A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor

I found this food interesting because it, like

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

The Flat Earth Conspiracy

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Gangland

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Reading in Bed: Brief Headlong Essays About Books and Writers and Reading and Readers

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Harlem Detective: 2 - The Real Cool Killers

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Harlem Detective: 3 - The Crazy Kill

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cyberpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Understudy for Death

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Aliens: 1 - Earth Hive

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

You're Him, Aren't You?

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Harlem Detective: 4 - The Big Gold Dream

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

Blood Music

Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly

The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issue about the So-Called Psychopathic Personality

Really liked the neutral retelling of various psychopaths' lives in their, their or the (author) psychiatrist's words. Informative with regards to the methodology of psychiatry, and just a good insight into these mishappen humans.

Hervey M. Checkley✓M1.00
Wake

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Shelly BurrM1.00
Ghost Eaters

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Clay McLeod Chapmanmag0.38
A Very Irish Christmas

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

V.A.b0.38
The Woods Are Dark

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Richard LaymonmM1.00
Flesh

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Richard LaymonM1.00
The Way It Is Now

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Garry Disherbm0.11
Wyatt: 1 - Kickback

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Garry Disherbm0.26
Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Gary M. PomerantzM1.00
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Nice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya.

Benjamin Stevensonm0.21
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes But Some Do

Failing good, the nov⸻, self-help book. No, seriously. I waded through some 60000 words, repeatingly decocting to 'learn from failure'. It has a few examples, but not enough; it fallaciously intrudes into others' psyche, and it introduces dispensable, and worse, worse than the existing one, terminology; it rambles on, and worse, does so for things it itself claims are permanent. Expect the unexpected. is bad advice, more a mental challenge to conjure situations and your desired actions in them, the pool is infinite⸻the infinitely unexpected is infinitely improbable is infinitely unwise to prepare for.
Good core idea that is best subsumed when young (through failure, rrright?). Shit book, waste of carbon, and others' time and money.

Matthew SyedKMpa0.55
Yama: The Pit

1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? <nothing?>) godcock and his as not a qtp2t, 24-year-old, well-read, pale, lanky Jennochka.
It reminds me the setting of Northern American western or northern frontiers, regarding the lacks law and morals, and encroaching vice. Too munch dandyism, or the aforementioned faux erudition, at times, I think, it grated to the the point of predictability at times, say, a fifth of the whole? The story can takes place over a week, as if, in actually months, and, meta-ly (verily not a word), decades on every frontier. Although not as explicit as I'd like⸻replaying

Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order

1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? <nothing?>) godcock and his as not a qtp2t, 24-year-old, well-read, pale, lanky Jennochka.
It reminds me the setting of Northern American western or northern frontiers, regarding the lacks law and morals, and encroaching vice. Too munch dandyism, or the aforementioned faux erudition, at times, I think, it grated to the the point of predictability at times, say, a fifth of the whole? The story can takes place over a week, as if, in actually months, and, meta-ly (verily not a word), decades on every frontier. Although not as explicit as I'd like⸻replaying

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? <nothing?>) godcock and his as not a qtp2t, 24-year-old, well-read, pale, lanky Jennochka.
It reminds me the setting of Northern American western or northern frontiers, regarding the lacks law and morals, and encroaching vice. Too munch dandyism, or the aforementioned faux erudition, at times, I think, it grated to the the point of predictability at times, say, a fifth of the whole? The story can takes place over a week, as if, in actually months, and, meta-ly (verily not a word), decades on every frontier. Although not as explicit as I'd like⸻replaying

Beware

1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? <nothing?>) godcock and his as not a qtp2t, 24-year-old, well-read, pale, lanky Jennochka.
It reminds me the setting of Northern American western or northern frontiers, regarding the lacks law and morals, and encroaching vice. Too munch dandyism, or the aforementioned faux erudition, at times, I think, it grated to the the point of predictability at times, say, a fifth of the whole? The story can takes place over a week, as if, in actually months, and, meta-ly (verily not a word), decades on every frontier. Although not as explicit as I'd like⸻replaying

Kepler's Law

Hard science fiction writer. His stories appear mainly in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact looking at the covers of the few stories recorded and included in the torrent alongside the titular one. I'm read textbooks more interesting than this. And it wasn't the all-female cast of characters that sharpened the punjis, I listened through Thanksgiving Day and Communion, both long-ish stories, at 45 and 215 minute read times, both very dull and uninteresting. This guy barely exists online, in libgen, in the bookz irc channel, so I'd chalk it up to him being a not particularly good writer, astrophysics degree or no.

Jay Werkheiserb0.13
Beware of Dogs

Hard science fiction writer. His stories appear mainly in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact looking at the covers of the few stories recorded and included in the torrent alongside the titular one. I'm read textbooks more interesting than this. And it wasn't the all-female cast of characters that sharpened the punjis, I listened through Thanksgiving Day and Communion, both long-ish stories, at 45 and 215 minute read times, both very dull and uninteresting. This guy barely exists online, in libgen, in the bookz irc channel, so I'd chalk it up to him being a not particularly good writer, astrophysics degree or no.

Elizabeth FlannM1.00
The 8th

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Slave Girls of Rome

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Cold Turkey How to Quit Drinking by Not Drinking

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit

Interestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Amanda MontellmM0.66
Liturgical Music for Nihilists

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Brian Hodgemb1.00
Dark Mountain

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Richard LaymonmM1.00
John Blake: 1 - Little Girl Lost

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Richard Aleasm1.00
John Blake: 2 - Songs of Innocence

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Richard Aleasm1.00
How to Be a Man

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Chabuddy Gcw0.19
The Lake

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Richard Laymonmab0.95
The Ascent of Man

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Jacob Bronowskimb0.51
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Joost Meerloo1.00
The Stranger

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert (tr.)1.00
Strange Weather in Tokyo

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell (tr.)mp0.43
Diary of a Void

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Emi Yagi, David Boyd (tr.), Lucy North (tr.)♀c0.12
The Ascent

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

Ronald MalfimM1.00
Inspector McLean: 01 - Natural Causes

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

James Oswaldmp0.52
Wall Street Noir

Focusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Even racist fascist misogynist Donald Trump., she has a few other such unsubstantiated virtue-signaling and other such denouncing that is played as a trump card.
Mostly just resparks my sharp discontentment with most modern-day women and desire to excise them.

V.A.Mm0.92
Tristessa

A deranged, romantic, beatnik stream-of-consciousness about a junky in Mexico. Like, really fucking continuous⸻no pulled punches, no holds barred; achieving a level just below that of Peter Sotos with the following 1926-glyph '''sentence''' (the latter's maximum from the 5-novel Pornography 1991⸺2000 is 584; arguably, Kerouac cheats with his use of em dashes, which, given the capitalized foremost word, suggest separate sentences, but the ⸻s suggest interrupted wholes without pause):

I'm having the fairy tale of Saturday night, having a good time actually because of the booze and the good cheer and the careless people⸻enjoying the little animals⸻noticing the little Chihuahua pup now meekly waiting for a bite of meat or bread with her tail curled in and woe, if she ever inherits the earth it'll be because of meek⸻Ears curled back and even whimpering the little Chihuahua smalldog fear-cry⸻Nevertheless she's been alternately watching us and sleeping all night, and her own reflections on the subject of Nirvana and death and mortals biding time till death, are of a whimpering high frequency terrified tender variety⸻and the kind that says 'Leave me alone, I am so delicate' and you leave her alone in her little fragile shell like the shell of canoes over the ocean deeps⸻I wish I could communicate to all these creatures and people, in the flush of my moonshine goodtimes, the cloudy mystery of the magic milk to be seen in Mind's Deep Imagery where we learn that everything is nothing⸻in which case they wouldn't worry any more, except after the instant they think to worry again⸻All of us trembling in our mortality boots, born to die, BORN TO DIE I could write it on the wall and on Walls all over America⸻Dove in wings of peace, with her Noah Menagery Moonshine eyes; dog with clitty claws black and shiny, to die is born, trembles in her purple eyes, her little weak bloodvessels down the ribs; yea the ribs of Chihuahua, and Tristessa's ribs too, beautiful ribs, her with her aunts in Chihuahua also born to die, beautiful to be ugly, quick to be dead, glad to be sad, mad to be had⸻and the El Indio death, born to die, the man, so he plies the needle of Saturday Night every night is Saturday night and goes wild to wait, what else can he do,⸻The death of Cruz, the drizzles of religion falling on her burial fields, the grim mouth planted the satin of the earth coffin, ...

It is rambley, sure, and nonsensical, yes, indeed-y; but he colors wildly, overzealously with with baroque and nonstandard words, phrases, punctuation, phrasing, wording. I can easily imagine somebody, stoned outta their spine, unable to cogently or at least coherently guide a single thought to the end. I say that having observed my thoughts and thought patterns whilst in prolonged hypoglycemias. Journey not destination, style without substance, that is, I have little fucking clue what really is going on or what he's trying to say, convey, hint at too often; yes, there is a plot; no, I don't really think it'd matter if there wasn't and he was talking about or to Kashan rugs...
Very pretty.

Since beginningless time and into the never-ending future, men have loved women without telling them, and the Lord has loved them without telling, and the void is not the void because there's nothing to be empty of.

Jack Kerouac✓✔1.00
Cats Have No Lord

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Will Shetterlyaw0.10
Da Vinci's Cat

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Catherine Gilbert Murdockbm0.11
The House at the End of the World

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Dean Koontzm?0.55
The Axeman of New Orleans

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Miriam C. Davismb0.63
Convenience Store Woman

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.)c0.16
Procedural Storytelling in Game Design

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

V.A., Tanya X. Short (ed.), Tarn Adams (ed.)wk0.79
Game Dynamics: Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

V.A., Oliver Korn (ed.), Newton Lee (ed.)m0.59
Procedural Generation in Game Design

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

V.A., Tanya X. Short (ed.), Tarn Adams (ed.)w0.42
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Chris Van Allsburgm1.00
Aesop's Fables

I can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages.

Aesop, V.S. Vernon Jones (tr.)M1.00
The Courage to Be Disliked

This book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? Who now? Adolf Adler was the third giant of psychotherapy from the early twentieth century from Germany or Austria, the other two being, of course, the circuitiously thinking, sex-addled Sigmund Freud, and the more broadly thinking, actually helpful, archetype-dude Carl Jung. I knew of him barely, his name mentioned in some book or other, possibly some edutainment video. Jordan Peterson talks/talked almost exclusively around Jung, and pretty much no serious academic talks of Freud nowadays, and hasn't for around 3⸺4 decades. So, other than the bad luck of being around a good-for-nothing Vienese cunt, why'd he get relegated to history's attic? The book briefly addresses this, saying, and I paraphrase, that the rest received more attention because they'd come prior (and poisoned the well). The fields of psychotherapy and especially psychiatry have inflicted much avoidable and unnecessary pain and suffering upon the general public and those they purport to treat.

The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying.

Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them.

As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention.

Save grasping for false and or malicious badfaith motives and grasping, I'd say it's the most utilitarian of the three, focusing on fixing you and your problems, then your problems with others, give you a catch-all precept to save you grief caused by others, and allowing you to step back and be a fucking adult. Good luck on getting anybody else on board, fuck know I've had tried 2⸺3 times explaining my way of thought to others to no avail, to no help of theirs, and to my waste of fucking time (unless you count me reaffirming my teaching (or really, getting through to any-fucking-body) disability). Read it, then build upon it.
the end. fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything on this gayass fucking rock

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake KogaKMw1.00
Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy

This book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? Who now? Adolf Adler was the third giant of psychotherapy from the early twentieth century from Germany or Austria, the other two being, of course, the circuitiously thinking, sex-addled Sigmund Freud, and the more broadly thinking, actually helpful, archetype-dude Carl Jung. I knew of him barely, his name mentioned in some book or other, possibly some edutainment video. Jordan Peterson talks/talked almost exclusively around Jung, and pretty much no serious academic talks of Freud nowadays, and hasn't for around 3⸺4 decades. So, other than the bad luck of being around a good-for-nothing Vienese cunt, why'd he get relegated to history's attic? The book briefly addresses this, saying, and I paraphrase, that the rest received more attention because they'd come prior (and poisoned the well). The fields of psychotherapy and especially psychiatry have inflicted much avoidable and unnecessary pain and suffering upon the general public and those they purport to treat.

The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying.

Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them.

As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention.

Save grasping for false and or malicious badfaith motives and grasping, I'd say it's the most utilitarian of the three, focusing on fixing you and your problems, then your problems with others, give you a catch-all precept to save you grief caused by others, and allowing you to step back and be a fucking adult. Good luck on getting anybody else on board, fuck know I've had tried 2⸺3 times explaining my way of thought to others to no avail, to no help of theirs, and to my waste of fucking time (unless you count me reaffirming my teaching (or really, getting through to any-fucking-body) disability). Read it, then build upon it.
the end. fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything on this gayass fucking rock

Ozzy Osbourne, Chris AyresmM0.97
Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels

This book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? Who now? Adolf Adler was the third giant of psychotherapy from the early twentieth century from Germany or Austria, the other two being, of course, the circuitiously thinking, sex-addled Sigmund Freud, and the more broadly thinking, actually helpful, archetype-dude Carl Jung. I knew of him barely, his name mentioned in some book or other, possibly some edutainment video. Jordan Peterson talks/talked almost exclusively around Jung, and pretty much no serious academic talks of Freud nowadays, and hasn't for around 3⸺4 decades. So, other than the bad luck of being around a good-for-nothing Vienese cunt, why'd he get relegated to history's attic? The book briefly addresses this, saying, and I paraphrase, that the rest received more attention because they'd come prior (and poisoned the well). The fields of psychotherapy and especially psychiatry have inflicted much avoidable and unnecessary pain and suffering upon the general public and those they purport to treat.

The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying.

Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them.

As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention.

Save grasping for false and or malicious badfaith motives and grasping, I'd say it's the most utilitarian of the three, focusing on fixing you and your problems, then your problems with others, give you a catch-all precept to save you grief caused by others, and allowing you to step back and be a fucking adult. Good luck on getting anybody else on board, fuck know I've had tried 2⸺3 times explaining my way of thought to others to no avail, to no help of theirs, and to my waste of fucking time (unless you count me reaffirming my teaching (or really, getting through to any-fucking-body) disability). Read it, then build upon it.
the end. fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything on this gayass fucking rock

Bill AdlerAm0.24
Bodies in Barrels: The Snowtown Murders

This book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? Who now? Adolf Adler was the third giant of psychotherapy from the early twentieth century from Germany or Austria, the other two being, of course, the circuitiously thinking, sex-addled Sigmund Freud, and the more broadly thinking, actually helpful, archetype-dude Carl Jung. I knew of him barely, his name mentioned in some book or other, possibly some edutainment video. Jordan Peterson talks/talked almost exclusively around Jung, and pretty much no serious academic talks of Freud nowadays, and hasn't for around 3⸺4 decades. So, other than the bad luck of being around a good-for-nothing Vienese cunt, why'd he get relegated to history's attic? The book briefly addresses this, saying, and I paraphrase, that the rest received more attention because they'd come prior (and poisoned the well). The fields of psychotherapy and especially psychiatry have inflicted much avoidable and unnecessary pain and suffering upon the general public and those they purport to treat.

The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying.

Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them.

As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention.

Save grasping for false and or malicious badfaith motives and grasping, I'd say it's the most utilitarian of the three, focusing on fixing you and your problems, then your problems with others, give you a catch-all precept to save you grief caused by others, and allowing you to step back and be a fucking adult. Good luck on getting anybody else on board, fuck know I've had tried 2⸺3 times explaining my way of thought to others to no avail, to no help of theirs, and to my waste of fucking time (unless you count me reaffirming my teaching (or really, getting through to any-fucking-body) disability). Read it, then build upon it.
the end. fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything on this gayass fucking rock

Jack Smithmb0.92
After Sound: Toward a Critical Music

Post-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry.

Douglas BarrettcgW0.04
True Crime: Homicide and True Crime Stories of 2016

Post-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry.

Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Loabmg1.00
Unsolved Murders

Post-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry.

Emily G. Thompson, Amber HuntMmk1.00
The Snakehead

I'd initially went into this book and author not knowing true crime was what it was and they wrote, respectively, genre-wise. The thing, that hoisted the red for me, was the complexity, that, in a run-of-the-mill fiction book, could have more easily be achieved through fewer plot lines, using fewer characters and dry details, which ostensibly come from the in the final ~30% of the plain text file (when wrapped at 96) of the book legal documents among other references. I had the feeling that simultaneously a lot of ground was covered, but none of it satisfyingly deep enough⸻characters develop, issues new arise while the old resolve, but the delivery is meager and would leave most readers in want for substance and or detail, even if inconsequential, more fluff.

I've read of coyotes in Sunblind by Michael McBride, but of human smugglers in general or as a singular point of import, I can't recall one book, so this was an interesting an informative read. The ~250-year history of emigration to America is lightly investigated, how and why the demos and its leaders react the way they do, given the nation. I'll take a look at Keefe's other works since he's been rather thorough, he'd even gone to a few of the places and struck up convos with people from the story.

Patrick Radden KeefeM1.00
Unsolved Child Murders

I'd initially went into this book and author not knowing true crime was what it was and they wrote, respectively, genre-wise. The thing, that hoisted the red for me, was the complexity, that, in a run-of-the-mill fiction book, could have more easily be achieved through fewer plot lines, using fewer characters and dry details, which ostensibly come from the in the final ~30% of the plain text file (when wrapped at 96) of the book legal documents among other references. I had the feeling that simultaneously a lot of ground was covered, but none of it satisfyingly deep enough⸻characters develop, issues new arise while the old resolve, but the delivery is meager and would leave most readers in want for substance and or detail, even if inconsequential, more fluff.

I've read of coyotes in Sunblind by Michael McBride, but of human smugglers in general or as a singular point of import, I can't recall one book, so this was an interesting an informative read. The ~250-year history of emigration to America is lightly investigated, how and why the demos and its leaders react the way they do, given the nation. I'll take a look at Keefe's other works since he's been rather thorough, he'd even gone to a few of the places and struck up convos with people from the story.

Emily G. ThompsonmMa1.00
The Morning of the Magicians

This and

The Last Storm

Nothing sets one up for disappoint like reading authors', who you've read and whose writing you like or aren't appalled by (note: I don't think it's legal to use a relative clause on a genetive, but they cops aren't lookin'), praise a book. It then ends up a familial, magic-y nonsense, low-tech, future, survival b.s., with a non-insignificant agenda for preservation/environment/green, whatever that whole... thing is called, and, anti-capitalism, whatever the fuck that may be. To top it off⸻you have a fucking druggie, that doesn't behave like an addict, and a Mary Fucking Sue as our key actor. The premise of: Earth weather's gone to shit ('n we're to blame for of, ofc, ofc), that is, of more frequent intense events such as flash floods, mega drought, etc. is okay, but not new territory, of man turning fellow man and being a dick⸻vastly explored, and with better execution too. What's brought to the table is concept 'rainmakers': dei ex machina, putted straight outta Timmy's cancerous colon. Each construct his or her own portable deus ex machine, an 'apparatus'⸻of course, could we have ever a non-contrivance? I'm not waiting til the end of the book for timmy to explain away this bullshit.

Tim Lebbonamg0.43
A Different Class Of Murder

I was aware this going to be a crime committed by posh British cunts by 1, the title; 2, the audiobook cover; and that it was probably not going to be my cup or tea by 1, female author; 2, female reader. I was right. This is the sordid story of lord Lucan, the major points of which I was introduced to in a video by Dankula. The audiobook was 16 hours in length, and the speakers RP, or airs, or I don't really know what, made listening at the usual breakneck speed impossible, because all you'd hear was faux indignation, scoffing and puffed cheeks. Anyway, criticism: too many parentheses opened for not tangents, but also not crucial information. As if its length needed more puffing up?

44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love Sylvia Shults bBm .49 Eighteenth century, Uhmurrican frontiers. The book handles a Ms. Rhoda Derry, a eighteen-year-old cursed by who beloved's mother, to then have the breakdown of the state. The book is far too thorough for my liking by going into where Illi-fucking-nois fucking is, what the native tribes were paid for their land and what they were eating, what cash crops were, how fertile the land was, that is, what the general situation was like 250 years back, the who/what/when and where of construction and purpose of the very first mental asylum in the state, the history of the Derry family, and then only one generation of the other family, whose name already escapes me. Details about not on the case.

Laura Thompsonab0.03
Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orlean's Most Famous Murderess Revealed

I was aware this going to be a crime committed by posh British cunts by 1, the title; 2, the audiobook cover; and that it was probably not going to be my cup or tea by 1, female author; 2, female reader. I was right. This is the sordid story of lord Lucan, the major points of which I was introduced to in a video by Dankula. The audiobook was 16 hours in length, and the speakers RP, or airs, or I don't really know what, made listening at the usual breakneck speed impossible, because all you'd hear was faux indignation, scoffing and puffed cheeks. Anyway, criticism: too many parentheses opened for not tangents, but also not crucial information. As if its length needed more puffing up?

44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love Sylvia Shults bBm .49 Eighteenth century, Uhmurrican frontiers. The book handles a Ms. Rhoda Derry, a eighteen-year-old cursed by who beloved's mother, to then have the breakdown of the state. The book is far too thorough for my liking by going into where Illi-fucking-nois fucking is, what the native tribes were paid for their land and what they were eating, what cash crops were, how fertile the land was, that is, what the general situation was like 250 years back, the who/what/when and where of construction and purpose of the very first mental asylum in the state, the history of the Derry family, and then only one generation of the other family, whose name already escapes me. Details about not on the case.

Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannonbm0.77
City of Orange

Writing this at the 10% mark, I must admit that the writing of our Korean fellow has much improved since Version Zero, it is actually good, not merely passable. Very good dialog and believable, human characters aside, and the few giggles, chuckles and laughs it got from me, which, granted, is extremely rare, and not insignificant, this novel is ultimately about lose and identity. At 8.4e4 words, is has 7 parts. 3 too many, in my appraisal⸻the narration shortly after the half-way point takes a nose-dive, along with my score for the damn thing, slows down to a crawl, only to pick up a tad towards the very end, the last half of the last part. Filibustering, it seemed unfocused, unsure of where it wanted to go with the story, the tone, the characters, yet it, or rather he, wanted to change things up. Otherwise no development would have taken place since the very first page. Beforehand it read more like a mystery or a suspense novel. Am willing to give his olders a chance as well, and if they prove poor, then whatever he releases in the following year or two.

He'd wondered: What obvious mysteries have we modern humans not figured out yet? How to fly?
How to stop abusing one another?
...
A family of three tumbleweeds, he thinks, just like the family I used to have. Tumbleweeds get to be together. They get to venture forth and roam around freely. No one ever bothers with tumbleweeds.
I wish I were a tumbleweed.
...
But unlike me, tumbleweeds fear nothing, because they are tumbleweeds, which are dead. What kind of freak organism only becomes able to move once it expires? Undead plants, sure, okay!
...
There isn't all that much to prepare, really. He lies on the slope and considers masturbating. The idea floods his loins with dread. How miserable during, how desolate afterward.
...
What Would You Do? And Why Would It Be Fun? The surface of the water in the bucket ripples. He realizes he is weeping. It's not fair that he should be tormented when he's already so low. Nothing about this place is fair. But the world has never been very interested in the notion of fairness, has it? Why would it change now just because humans are gone?
To compound the cruelty, he's just bashed a creature to death. Don't fool yourself into thinking that was some kind of mercy killing, he thinks. You got dealt shit, so you in turn dealt shit to someone else to compensate. They say an eye for an eye, but what they forget to say is that if you can't reach the eye of the one who wronged you, then any nearby eye will do.
Remember the world before. How all its evil was just a ceaseless cascade of misplaced revenge!
I'm so sorry, he says to the crow.
...
Torture? Pff. Vainglorious delusions of grandeur. No one is torturing him. There is no conspiratorial intent here. He is a nobody in the middle of great big nowhere.
. ..
Adam falls asleep.
Fifty-Three
Then Adam dies.
...
Is there even a real answer to that kind of question? Would it even matter? What's done is done, cannot be undone, the world shambles on. It's not like humanity will learn a single thing from it.
...
I am the supernatural force that topples the stones. Just me. God wouldn't bother.

David YoonM1.00
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

Lok ma', I dug up articles and made a book! Takes a look at the largest experiments to usher in utopia with brief commentary on the history, and fans' and critics' (in the negative sense) remarks. Literally Sunday column article material.

Kristian Niemietzkbm1.00
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

Lok ma', I dug up articles and made a book! Takes a look at the largest experiments to usher in utopia with brief commentary on the history, and fans' and critics' (in the negative sense) remarks. Literally Sunday column article material.

Allen Franceskmb1.00
Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Exquisitely worded, Bruno-Schulz-esque, in my opinion, that is, in fact.
Would reread merely for the language. The story itself is so-so; the injection of both Japanese mythology and vocabulary was a nice touch, likely achieved through editor and in-the-acknowledgments thanked 'adored' authors egging her on. Well, I'm sold to give her other stuff a try.

Cassandra Khaw✓✔1.00
The Candy House

Exquisitely worded, Bruno-Schulz-esque, in my opinion, that is, in fact.
Would reread merely for the language. The story itself is so-so; the injection of both Japanese mythology and vocabulary was a nice touch, likely achieved through editor and in-the-acknowledgments thanked 'adored' authors egging her on. Well, I'm sold to give her other stuff a try.

Jennifer Eganb0.05
Consumed

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

David Cronenberg2.00
Science and Human Values

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Jacob BronowskimM?1.00
The Dead of Winter

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Stuart MacBrideAw0.01
Them: Adventures with Extremists

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Jon Ronsonfw?0.48
We Sold Our Souls

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Grady Hendrixwcm0.17
The Common Sense of Science

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Jacob BronowskimM?1.00
The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Anthony Jameskp0.69
The Decagon House Murders

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Yukito Ayatsujima0.43
The Hollows

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Daniel Churcham0.10
The Oregon Trail

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

Francis ParkmanM1.00
Depraved: A True Story of Murder in the Heartland

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

John Glattmb1.00
The Prince of Paradise

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

John Glattbm1.00
On Dialogue

Mystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human.
Second time around, being harried (by myself), also insufficient time having passed, the major beats' consequences and general sequence came back to me. Not as senile as I'd like to think I am. But this time around, the following stands out: the novel begins by alternating voices/characters and locations, those of our two protagos, and then abruptly as another major character starts narrating his story 57⸺75%, and the rest being, save a few page right afterwards and few more paragraphs towards the end, from the one that was with them. Which doesn't work well, I thought it draining and more mediocre, it felt to drag on for much longer⸻I'd've written 'a flat third', but wanted to ascertain it wasn't my perception or emotion speaking.
Has some nice and or quoteable lines. That I won't share, because who even read this shit. Who even fucking cares. Nobody, that's who. And don't you dare prove me wrong, you smug whoreson.

David BohmmkM1.00
The Babysitter Lives

Color me surprised. The man did it. An actually good (note from future: first half of a) novel. An actually creepy or scary at times novel. With actually believable characters. Well, to me, so pinch and salt the jazz. Little anchors it historically other than the extremity of Halloween costumes, that is post-early-2000s candy scare, possibly the homosexual relationship, which is also done okay. Now, to the meat and potatoes, that is, to the meat, because fuck your potatoes and fuck the Irish.

This is a story of a haunting for the most part, two, or rather multiple, worlds coexisting with the house, wherein all occurs, serving as a gate of sort. Stupid arbitrary rules always come into play, so they're excused. The gist is this: children killed by mother, who then suicides, the consequences of this thing play into the rest of the story, the all three of characters speaking up. What for me was the gavel that re-sentenced this to, well, not mediocrity but decent-ness (non-negative twist) was the second act, which was dreadfully languorous. It was a list of simple sentences, descriptions of actions and thoughts of no consequences, little was learned by the readership, protag, or antag; and the change of pace didn't do it any good either. She was in limbo, and so were we. Anywho, the first 40⸺50% deserve praise, compared the two I've read by sgj. He's not exactly pretentious, nor is he mainstream, but might just not be my cuppa.

Stephen Graham Jones✓M1.00
How to Be Eaten

A collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read.

Maria Adelmann1.00
Addiction: A Very Short Introduction

A collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read.

Keith Humphriesk1.00
Lonely Crusade

A collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read.

Chester Himes1.00
Hannibal Lecter: 1 - Red Dragon

Character studies.
Damn long. Focused on protag? Not really.
Thinking back, other than the length nothing stands out. Okay.

Thomas HarrisMb?1.00
Hannibal Lecter: 2 - The Silence of the Lambs

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

Thomas HarrisM?1.00
Hannibal Lecter: 3 - Hannibal

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

Thomas Harrisapm0.26
Local Girl Missing

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

J.A. Bakerbw0.11
Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

Stacey FreedenthalWa0.03
One Eye Open

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

K.G. LewismM1.00
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

David Benatar1.00
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Character studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'.

V.A., Otto Penzler (ed.)aAw0.07
Coin Locker Babies

Third novel of Ryu Murakami, published 1980 in Japan; my second work of his. Beloved by nippophiles, and people without (a refined) taste⸻at least, much more than he deserves to, I think⸻he exemplies what I dislike about heavily westernized Japanese artistic media: trope-heavy, at best with some expectation subversion; mired in symbolism and philosophy, more often foreign, misunderstood and convoluted and sloppily regurgitated all over those fancying any 'Japanese thing' more than 'thing' for no reason, arbitrarily, unsubstantiated. To be quirky, to fit in⸻, sorry for that. I'll leave it in because it is relevant though. Tokyo Decadence, a short story collection by the same is the only other I've read by him, was just boring garbage but in Japan, with Japanese, about Japanese (people). I'm probably convoluting him with others like Dazai, and misattributing. I have the rest of his pirateable shit, and I'll give them a fair shake in due time too. Don't worry about it. Just about everybody gets a fair shake with me.

This was pleasantly unexpected. In the back of my mind, open-minded and without expectations or not, I went into it knowing loosely the person who'd expressed like it, it had provided them comfort. It's a Bildungsroman about these two boys discovered by the general public, locked in coin locker storage boxes. The book can be divvied into 4 parts, I would say, with the first two being an act each, and the latter two comprising a poorly executed, tonally muted, unsaturated, and hobbling third. For the sake of distinction from the mundane, the world is too vibrant, or rather tries to tries to be. I recognize an attempt by its failure: 1, Anemone, the love interest of the one boy, is unrealistic compared to already contrived, puddle-shallow Japanese 'idols'; 2, Toxitown is a few blocks of real estate inside Tokyo, not the greater metropolitan area, guarded by (armed) military police..? And yet a shitton successfully squat there..? Gharials/gavials⸻seriously now? I'd overlook these two among others still, were they not crucial to the plot and its development. Adhocism isn't ever excusable nor acceptable.

I did like its first act, like the person who'd mentioned it. A world unveiled by two lads. Narration happening from the third, yet I didn't feel that extricated from either perspective. Alternation of first-person accounts, I think, could have worked too. I wouldn't call it comforting, but the tone switches from sombre to puerile, at which time it ca be wholesome too. Too little time was spent on them growing up, on experiences particular or generalized. The perspectives of the two were enforced, separate, and made for a more interesting reading, unlike acts two and three, where the narrator's camera, as it were, the framing was increasingly distanced, with me caring not in the least if or how the whole thing would end after passing aroudn 55⸺60%. Their two love interests and the relationships established therewith were also interesting. Both were non-standard, but had they not their histories and quirks and retained their personalities and human qualities, it would have still worked. Reba, Dolarhyde's love interest in

Book of Longing

During the Day
...
I salute you
Brave spirit
Who has swallowed so much
And tasted so little.

THE GOAL I can't leave my house or answer the phone. I'm going down again but I'm not alone. Settling at last accounts of the soul: this for the trash, that paid in full. As for the fall, it began long ago: Can't stop the rain, Can't stop the snow. I sit in my chair. I look at the street. The neighbour returns my smile of defeat. I move with the leaves.

Leonard CohenMm1.00
Righteous Indignation

During the Day
...
I salute you
Brave spirit
Who has swallowed so much
And tasted so little.

THE GOAL I can't leave my house or answer the phone. I'm going down again but I'm not alone. Settling at last accounts of the soul: this for the trash, that paid in full. As for the fall, it began long ago: Can't stop the rain, Can't stop the snow. I sit in my chair. I look at the street. The neighbour returns my smile of defeat. I move with the leaves.

Andrew Breitbartkbm0.29
Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

During the Day
...
I salute you
Brave spirit
Who has swallowed so much
And tasted so little.

THE GOAL I can't leave my house or answer the phone. I'm going down again but I'm not alone. Settling at last accounts of the soul: this for the trash, that paid in full. As for the fall, it began long ago: Can't stop the rain, Can't stop the snow. I sit in my chair. I look at the street. The neighbour returns my smile of defeat. I move with the leaves.

Leonard Cohenjm0.16
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

A female Jew's desires stamped. Promiscuity, admiration, adulation, disregard, maltreatment, and arbitrary forgiveness for these. Unrealistic. And rather annoying. Had a few nice lines, as if effort was put in. Showed its grimace quickly. Fucking women are fucking cunts a-fucking-gain. Yes, I am currently angry, how could you fucking tell? If you're a female, give it a try, writing good. If you've a dick, and a man's head, don't bother.

Gabrielle ZevinmaMwj?0.14
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

A female Jew's desires stamped. Promiscuity, admiration, adulation, disregard, maltreatment, and arbitrary forgiveness for these. Unrealistic. And rather annoying. Had a few nice lines, as if effort was put in. Showed its grimace quickly. Fucking women are fucking cunts a-fucking-gain. Yes, I am currently angry, how could you fucking tell? If you're a female, give it a try, writing good. If you've a dick, and a man's head, don't bother.

Jonathan Gottschallg0.05
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

Meaning drivel. Mostly. I'm not sifting through 12h, 105k words for one gem. Writing's shit. Nothing worthwhile, in what was read.
Sontag, you've your first warning.

Susan Sontag♀wa0.05
Several short sentences about writing.

Meaning drivel. Mostly. I'm not sifting through 12h, 105k words for one gem. Writing's shit. Nothing worthwhile, in what was read.
Sontag, you've your first warning.

Verlyn Klinkenborg✔✔2.71
I'm Glad My Mom Died

The vivid memories of a child actor outgrowing mental and emotional trauma, blackmail, abuse, disorders. Poignant, witty, sharp. I like detailed, brutally honest diaries, memoirs written timely, not when memory's fuzzier than a Persian cat, and Death's impatiently tapping his foot, glaring down his sandglass. Hats off to Net, she overcame adversity, the cruel arbitrariness of life. Wasn't a massive cunt along the way too.
5 stars on the almost young adult descriptions of blowjobs and sex, or sexual stuff. My laughbox squeezed 3⸺4 times.


Spoiler, the whole neatly summarized in the last chapter:

>This is my first time visiting Mom's grave since her birthday, last July. My visits have become less frequent through the years, even though I promised Mom, per her request, that I would visit her grave every day. In the beginning, I visited once a week and felt guilty about it, like it wasn't enough. But with time and with reality, the visits have become less and less, and so has the guilt. >I sit cross-legged in front of her grave. I take a longer look at the words on her headstone. >Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on… >Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can't look at them any longer. >Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms. They're the most romanticized of anyone. >Moms are saints. Angels by merely existing. NO ONE could possibly understand what it's like to be a mom. Men will never understand. Women with no children will never understand. No one but moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers. >Maybe I feel this way now because I viewed my mom that way for so long. I had her up on a pedestal, and I know how detrimental that pedestal was to my well-being and life. That pedestal kept me stuck, emotionally stunted, living in fear, dependent, in a near constant state of emotional pain and without the tools to even identify that pain let alone deal with it. >My mom didn't deserve her pedestal. She was a narcissist. She refused to admit she had any problems, despite how destructive those problems were to our entire family. My mom emotionally, mentally, and physically abused me in ways that will forever impact me. >She gave me breast and vaginal exams until I was seventeen years old. These “exams” made my body stiff with discomfort. I felt violated, yet I had no voice, no ability to express that. I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betrayal of her, so I stayed silent. Cooperative. >When I was six years old, she pushed me into a career I didn't want. I'm grateful for the financial stability that career has provided me, but not much else. I was not equipped to handle the entertainment industry and all of its competitiveness, rejection, stakes, harsh realities, fame. I needed that time, those years, to develop as a child. To form my identity. To grow. I can never get those years back. >She taught me an eating disorder when I was eleven years old⸻an eating disorder that robbed me of my joy and any amount of free-spiritedness that I had. >She never told me my father was not my father. >Her death left me with more questions than answers, more pain than healing, and many layers of grief⸻the initial grief from her passing, then the grief of accepting her abuse and exploitation of me, and finally, the grief that surfaces now when I miss her and start to cry⸻because I do still miss her and start to cry. >I miss her pep talks. Mom had a knack for finding just the right thing in a person to get them to light up and believe in themselves. >I miss her childlike spirit. Mom had an energy that could at times be so endearing. Even captivating. >And I miss when she was happy. It didn't happen as often as I would've liked, it didn't happen as often as I tried to force it to happen, but when she was happy it was infectious. >Sometimes when I miss her I start to fantasize about what life would be like if she were still alive and I imagine that maybe she'd have apologized, and we'd have wept in each other's arms and promised each other we'd start fresh. Maybe she'd support me having my own identity, my own hopes and dreams and pursuits. >But then I realize I'm just romanticizing the dead in the same way I wish everyone else wouldn't.
Jennette McCurdyM✓1.00
The Tatami Galaxy

(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel.

So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole?

It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice.
This however, is light-hearted. aaay⸻, So yeah... Wy to kill the mood..? ikr? Dissociating, I still enjoy it greatly. Makes me feel human. Whatever that's worth.

Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (tr.)1.00
American Drug Addict

(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel.

So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole?

It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice.
This however, is light-hearted. aaay⸻, So yeah... Wy to kill the mood..? ikr? Dissociating, I still enjoy it greatly. Makes me feel human. Whatever that's worth.

Brett DouglasM1.00
Classic German Short Stories: Volume 1

(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel.

So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole?

It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice.
This however, is light-hearted. aaay⸻, So yeah... Wy to kill the mood..? ikr? Dissociating, I still enjoy it greatly. Makes me feel human. Whatever that's worth.

V.A.b?mw0.72
A Wild Animal Ate a Person in the Woods: Fables

(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel.

So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole?

It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice.
This however, is light-hearted. aaay⸻, So yeah... Wy to kill the mood..? ikr? Dissociating, I still enjoy it greatly. Makes me feel human. Whatever that's worth.

Adam Craig?w0.57
Ancient Fables

(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel.

So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole?

It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice.
This however, is light-hearted. aaay⸻, So yeah... Wy to kill the mood..? ikr? Dissociating, I still enjoy it greatly. Makes me feel human. Whatever that's worth.

Wu MinMm1.00
Travels in Siberia

Finished Travels in Siberia. Apparaently the circuit's been done by at least 15 different Ohioans within some decades of the the its writing. As well as as far back as the 13 or 16 century from various other explorers and travelers. Dude did his research and included a bibliography, so muchos kudos for that. Too often long-winded. The Russophilic aspect grates me so obscenely that I'd attached an 'annoying' mark to my rating of 'above mediocre but not quite decent either'. The history of region, that is, the history of the politics of monarchical Russian from its establishment to dissolution was included. In more detail than needed, I'd say. Not much in the way of fun or whimsy or share-worthy-around-the-camp-fire. Plain observation from a guy in his 50s, rarely interspersed with profound or naïve or American. Eh. At 1.8e5, roughly 2 novels' length, could have been decocted into something more potent. The genre of travelog(ue) is⸻, or rather has been too commercialized in the past few 5-ish decade. This is from 2001, so 1 post-collapse. The ones done by George Kennan aroun 1870 should be much more interesting, both are to be found at archive.dot in not great scanned condition. The TTS output is gonna be garbage.

Ian FraziermMba1.00
Popisho

Leone Ross is Jamacian-English author with five-ish novels under her belt. Only three skittering on mobilism.org and the libgen mirror speaks to her previous success. The quality of writing here pushed me to give the other two a chance as well. The writing is very, very colorful, lively, vivid, alive, vibrant, am I using enough to words to convey the action? She does that, only half-n-halves it with Jamacian cant. Which to me is a new taste of English, so I appreciate it. The book is dense in that much that happens is relevant somehow. The language as mentioned is a pleasure to partake of. But this thickens the soup to a stew! Chonkification furthered by there being six gorillion plot-revelant toons. Tolkien all over again. I can't keep track of more than, say, 5. Maybe it's a female thing? I have sharper visual and ideal or ideational memories, a dull one for concretes, names and dates. At least at ~45%, there's no time travel and branching paths explored.

Gave up on Popisho. I'm fucking hating women or anything vaguely feminine, so judging over 4 characters, emotions, and shit being unrealistic, impossible even is inacceptable, and the Jamacian cant is fucking annoying me since the reader of the audiobook varies her speed from 1x to 3x. I'll give the other half a shot in a few weeks, but the flite-version rather that the reader. Fuck me. The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce ✓ 1 A compilation of his casual-remarks-turned-wittisms on imbued meanings of and connotations in everyday words during his years as a columnist for periodicals. It's short and sweet. A mild bitterness, bad-faith, despondency in humanity I notice. Cynicism perhaps? But uncalled for, too much of it. Up to the letter M, for example, there wasn't one 'hey, people can be nice too'. The exaggeration is neither subdued, nor cartoonishly overdone, it's half-way between snide and sarcasm.

Leone Ross✓MA0.53
The Third Generation

I'm not sure what Chester Himes was attempting with this novel. He was a black American author born at the start of the 20. century, celebrated for his hard-boileds, and ones with commentary on the racial tensions and dynamics within and without his 'black' race. The Harlem Detective series didn't strike me as engaging, given the choice I have at hand, but his Lonely Crusade was, to repeat myself, poignant. Precise and accurate to what would happen. Fifth publication starts off describing a marriage, a family. The female is where the action stems from, thinking herself nobler, better, and than the rest of her race, because she is only some ratio black. An actual word from the novel 'octoroon' that was at the time of the novel, early 1900⸺1925, used reminds me of the miscegenation laws National Socialists drafted, accepted, issued about what⸻, that is, who exactly counts as a Jew. I wouldn't have waste a third the pages to say, slightly black woman bitching about everything and unhappy with being back and having everything. Makes her appear to the reader as the ginormous, ingrateful cunt that she is. Sure, that sentence can be extended to a paragraph, a chapter, but it was meandering withtout the plot furthering. Sure, time passed, but what of it? I don't know where he was going with this. Maybe she becomes accepting of her race..? Maybe she helps others..? Maybe it's actually about the children who when I'd dropped it were illegally fleeing the state emotionally blackmailed and dragged by their mother to comfit her in that that'll be raised white(-r), or something like that. Requires severe editting by the author.

10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help Benjamin Wiker Wg .37 A bad-faith, bland, benefiting from present-day, first-world hindsight top 10 list by one of those American faggots that thinks having a Ph.D. next to one's name is a stamp of correctness. Offers nothing new, offers nothing really. A stupid, unread religidrone may like this? Misrepresents as a child would positively impactful, key to the human development scientists,philosophers, economists to pat himself on the back for reassuring himself about his close⸻, or rather absent-minded, dogmatic, and predictable to a T 'faith'. Can't see being his nose. Alice, you whore cunt, you'd actually like this and think yourself oh so smart for having read it.
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin (tr.) kMwp 1 A how-to on The Way. What is The Way, you ask? Neutrality, balancing opposites, you know the spiel: being Switzerland in China 2500 years ago. Presented by too often alegorical examples rather than doctrinal precepts. 81 lessons ranging from wise to sensible to questionable to insufferable to vexing. 20⸺25% of them I would sacrifice for consistency and clarity. There is both observer and survivorship biases, as well as is-ought-ism.

43 - Water and stone The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison wbm .23 Found it in a scifi dir. Fuck me this is bad writing. Gary Stu in robotic form. Why would anybody read this? In 1963, the concept of robots wasn't new?

Chester Himesmb?w0.33
The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life

I'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted.

tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-? Te answer is usage and history. You know this. This aufbügels not that desire to have more unchanging-lings in (human?) life. The thing I seldom successfully remind others of. Permanence itself is neutral and few would agree with language is perfect as it is, and there come to mind languages that have barely if at all improved in centuries: Arabic and Japanese come to mind. Not developing (in any direction)⸻mind you, I say not 'not improving'⸻implies not a perfected state.

  • What is the role of placebo in medicine? In the human world?
  • How much do we ourselves quash our hopes and dreams? How much does society?
  • Charlatanism, scientism, fraud versus stagnant science and philosophy, thought?
  • Mythology hearkens many generation back, contains an epoche's collective worldviews, morals, moral knowledge, wisdom.
  • What is a disease and what is one? Who decides? Who agrees with him/her? Who
  • How and why do organisms age? Should they?
  • Direction and speed, that is, both quality and quantity matter. With your current heading and velocity will your goal be reached? Should you do a 180° (assuming 2D Euclidean space), ac- or decelerate?
  • What is purpose of life self-imposed or biological?
  • The framework where work and thought is done is important. Is yours for your tasks suitable?
Theodore Roszak✓M1.00
Dangerous Connections

I'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted.

tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-? Te answer is usage and history. You know this. This aufbügels not that desire to have more unchanging-lings in (human?) life. The thing I seldom successfully remind others of. Permanence itself is neutral and few would agree with language is perfect as it is, and there come to mind languages that have barely if at all improved in centuries: Arabic and Japanese come to mind. Not developing (in any direction)⸻mind you, I say not 'not improving'⸻implies not a perfected state.

  • What is the role of placebo in medicine? In the human world?
  • How much do we ourselves quash our hopes and dreams? How much does society?
  • Charlatanism, scientism, fraud versus stagnant science and philosophy, thought?
  • Mythology hearkens many generation back, contains an epoche's collective worldviews, morals, moral knowledge, wisdom.
  • What is a disease and what is one? Who decides? Who agrees with him/her? Who
  • How and why do organisms age? Should they?
  • Direction and speed, that is, both quality and quantity matter. With your current heading and velocity will your goal be reached? Should you do a 180° (assuming 2D Euclidean space), ac- or decelerate?
  • What is purpose of life self-imposed or biological?
  • The framework where work and thought is done is important. Is yours for your tasks suitable?
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosB?0.07
The Iodine Crisis

I'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted.

tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-? Te answer is usage and history. You know this. This aufbügels not that desire to have more unchanging-lings in (human?) life. The thing I seldom successfully remind others of. Permanence itself is neutral and few would agree with language is perfect as it is, and there come to mind languages that have barely if at all improved in centuries: Arabic and Japanese come to mind. Not developing (in any direction)⸻mind you, I say not 'not improving'⸻implies not a perfected state.

  • What is the role of placebo in medicine? In the human world?
  • How much do we ourselves quash our hopes and dreams? How much does society?
  • Charlatanism, scientism, fraud versus stagnant science and philosophy, thought?
  • Mythology hearkens many generation back, contains an epoche's collective worldviews, morals, moral knowledge, wisdom.
  • What is a disease and what is one? Who decides? Who agrees with him/her? Who
  • How and why do organisms age? Should they?
  • Direction and speed, that is, both quality and quantity matter. With your current heading and velocity will your goal be reached? Should you do a 180° (assuming 2D Euclidean space), ac- or decelerate?
  • What is purpose of life self-imposed or biological?
  • The framework where work and thought is done is important. Is yours for your tasks suitable?
Lynne Farrowkmw0.28
The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention

I'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted.

tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-? Te answer is usage and history. You know this. This aufbügels not that desire to have more unchanging-lings in (human?) life. The thing I seldom successfully remind others of. Permanence itself is neutral and few would agree with language is perfect as it is, and there come to mind languages that have barely if at all improved in centuries: Arabic and Japanese come to mind. Not developing (in any direction)⸻mind you, I say not 'not improving'⸻implies not a perfected state.

  • What is the role of placebo in medicine? In the human world?
  • How much do we ourselves quash our hopes and dreams? How much does society?
  • Charlatanism, scientism, fraud versus stagnant science and philosophy, thought?
  • Mythology hearkens many generation back, contains an epoche's collective worldviews, morals, moral knowledge, wisdom.
  • What is a disease and what is one? Who decides? Who agrees with him/her? Who
  • How and why do organisms age? Should they?
  • Direction and speed, that is, both quality and quantity matter. With your current heading and velocity will your goal be reached? Should you do a 180° (assuming 2D Euclidean space), ac- or decelerate?
  • What is purpose of life self-imposed or biological?
  • The framework where work and thought is done is important. Is yours for your tasks suitable?
Chris Duffincwa0.02
Girls of a Certain Age

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Maria Adelmannwbm?0.27
Billionaire Grump

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Misha Bell♀cw0.03
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Duncan Mavinbm0.43
Alex Delaware: 38 - Unnatural History

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Jonathan Kellermanmpb0.37
Purgatory Mount

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Adam Robertswa0.04
Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History

What is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad.

Andie Tuchermb0.40
The Second Coming

John Niven, I think, wanted to use all the puns, jokes, stereotypes, any miscellaneous religion knowledge from the past 250 years of America's white-man-settled existence. And he kind of succeeded. A sitcom with development in 4 (OR 5??) arcs. How the 3 standard acts fit over these⸻the first 20% are the exposition, plot commensement of intoduction, and the second and third are very intensity plot-wise. I'm reminded of this manga/anime. This lends predictability to the characters, you're not brining anything new to table, not subverting expectations, knowledge. Since all characters⸻yes, even the tertiary ones⸻are cookie-cutouts, the positive strong initial impression is unimpressed; the story and humor lose steam. After a third, I stopped caring about anything, or being able to. As did the author, realizing he's out of easily insertable memes, Bible excerpts, etc.

John NivenM✓w0.94
Killers of the Flower Moon

Focus on victims and their lives? Seriously, again? Bad David, bad! It's call true crime, not true grief. These fuckers almost succeed in making 80s VHS dating profile of real people. It's not presented well. It's not done well. It's mostly the prime-time resurfacing of (badly) buried trauma of overly emotional, irrational indirect minor victims with all the folly that time stacks on a brain. And it's boring.

Just learned Scorsese directed and co-produced a 2023 release based on this book. epic Western crime drama film⸻my ass, going by the first 40% of the book. I may give the book another shot, if the movie is worth its time not on 1x speed.

David Grannbmw0.40
Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales

Focus on victims and their lives? Seriously, again? Bad David, bad! It's call true crime, not true grief. These fuckers almost succeed in making 80s VHS dating profile of real people. It's not presented well. It's not done well. It's mostly the prime-time resurfacing of (badly) buried trauma of overly emotional, irrational indirect minor victims with all the folly that time stacks on a brain. And it's boring.

Just learned Scorsese directed and co-produced a 2023 release based on this book. epic Western crime drama film⸻my ass, going by the first 40% of the book. I may give the book another shot, if the movie is worth its time not on 1x speed.

Ali Wentworthab0.06
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Cool book on how to analyze others' possessions. Very lay however, hence approachable and salable, but with little, to me, new bullshit. I would have liked more either more examples, or ways of testing oneself.

Sam Goslingmk1.00
Midshipman Bolitho

A 16-year-old in navy. Swell gig for a poor English fuck. When you were 16, how vibrant, eye-popping was everything, assuming you're not a chemical sedate? The 15% I'd read of this, is had the tone and cadence of tiring-from-life, 40+-year-old man. The blonde lad from the Master and Commander movie, which is based on a books series, was what I expected.

Alexander Kentbm0.16
Half Empty

Supposedly a freelancer's exploration of his own pessimism and others' take on pessimism in general. Or something..? I wasn't attentive, but it wasn't engaging either. Read more like the whinery of a middle-aged, amidst-mid-life-crisised male of poor life choices. Directionless, if at all going somewhere.

David Rakoff?m0.18
Dresden: A Survivor's Story

Supposedly a freelancer's exploration of his own pessimism and others' take on pessimism in general. Or something..? I wasn't attentive, but it wasn't engaging either. Read more like the whinery of a middle-aged, amidst-mid-life-crisised male of poor life choices. Directionless, if at all going somewhere.

Victor GreggmM1.00
Fuck You Very Much

I had a singular bad experience. It led me to a wild goose chase, in turn to a safari. Because I can't let it go.⸻the book. That is, he allowed himself be led, since he had already decided on writing the book months prior, everything reordered, readjusted to suit the narrative, which itself isn't anything special. I'm sure every mediumly long surviving society has had its more uptight and more unruly, more chaste and more wanton periods in time. So I don't see what the fuss's all about. Save the one almost chuckle-worthy story, very meh.

Danny Wallacemb0.28
Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood

What is says on the tin. Like Keith Phipps' Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood through One Singular Career has is rather biographical in the its first third stiching together information from various sources: interviews, others' biolgraphies, anecdotes, public records. The second part is, again, a chronological filmography with short summaries and morsels for the fan reader. A very readable on the shitter, if that's your think. Come to think of it, the 'm' rating is exactly that: books for the white house.

Gavin EdwardsmM1.00
Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers…but No Apologies

What is says on the tin. Like Keith Phipps' Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood through One Singular Career has is rather biographical in the its first third stiching together information from various sources: interviews, others' biolgraphies, anecdotes, public records. The second part is, again, a chronological filmography with short summaries and morsels for the fan reader. A very readable on the shitter, if that's your think. Come to think of it, the 'm' rating is exactly that: books for the white house.

Adam Carollaaw0.06
A Perfect Mess

Saying nothing in so so many words. Not even in platitudes aplenty. No citations. No own research. Who would anyone read this, let alone buy it? Pointingg out minor inconsitencieswe

Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedmankwbm0.12
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Badly written in that in 3⸺4*1e4 words you said nothing. Not quite fluffef up platitudes. But nothing new, nothing too old either. I listened only. That there was no download over at libgen speaks for the desire of the public for this non-fiction, almost self-help (in that it's common knowledge) collection of vowels and cononants that left no impression. And what there was, wasn't good.

Tracy Kidder, Richard Toddw?m0.48
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

A how-to on how to say nothing and dispraise a not too bad profession. Shame on you, Marilyn.

Marilyn Johnsonbw0.13
Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

The most normie of stories. What I'd hear riding a train in this country, or in Germany. Anonymity would allow for some lies, tall tales⸻you'd think, and you'd be wrong. It's just boring shit. Imagine 15⸺25-year-olds? Bore them up. And basic, human stories? Pass that through bad 100 IQ writing you'd do for a fucking CRAIG-FUGGIN'-LIST AD, and you get this shit. Fuck me. No, seriously. I need to jerk off. AND EVERYTHING IS SO. FUCKING. OFF-PUTTING. FUCK ME IN MY SLEEP.

Helena Dea Balabw0.16
Betrayal In Blood

(Yes, I'm copying, sue me. Also, hi :j.)
The Blooding Joseph Wambaugh b .23 Uuuuh, I was playing tetris, but still, I remember NOTHING of this. Not 48 hours have passed. I remember nothing. Wambaugh, you best be churning this shit out like Matt Shaw is, because you'll be hungrier and poorer than I am.

Michael BensonB0.09
Blood Dreams

Too frequent and unmarked diegetic time-hopping lost me. The story about a boy and his slightly abusing and annoying grandfather, whom he kiss with gas and an electric heater in the 1970s as a 13- or 14-year-old. Lying to relatives and play the good boy, and then schoolmates or neighborhood folk..? Already forgotting. Bland, unstriking in any way though it's been less than 2 days even I remember 3 characters and their qualities, which could have been an episode of a cartoon: exaggerated and one-dimensional.

Jack MacLanemb0.30
Abandon

Blake, what were you going for here? Because a quarter of those 9e4 words and I was more confused than invested by too many characters and too many (possible) plotslines. Time-travel, western, haunting/curse, family reunion. 6 in the present, about 8⸺12 in the past? Like I had trouble keep tabs on who's who in Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring before they left the damn shire, this is way many for me. Maybe it was written for women..?

The Suicide Club: You Are Not Alone Matt Shaw Wm .96 Oh my, another log by the turdmeister? And a recent one no less. He redeemed himself with the cromulent The 8th. I've already forgotten what it handled so many times, but that I finished it at as-much-fold speed spake for itself. Not quite airport trash, but this will be my 32 novelette of his. If you've not guessed, I'm writing the intro first, beause I want to speak to the void: Hey, Void waves. Hy there yourself, stud wink.

A too brief explor⸻, glance at the possible value of existence. As contrasted with nullibiety. I'm still reading Adam Phillipps' Missing out, and plan on rereading

The Suicide Motor Club

Initially reminiscent of Death Proof only with purpetrating driver(s) rather than ghosts or sentient automobiles, and no suspense or thrill. Muddled plot or inefficient or bad development of it. In the read and heard 11% nothing grabbed me: no suicide, no club; no murder, violence, sex, daubchery, gratuitous anything. A therapy session. About vehicles. ... Quaking in me booties, I am.

Christopher Buehlmanw?bm0.11
The Suicide Club

x. time's the charm, it'd seem. And from a male, female-targeting romance writer no less (reviews' first sentences and books' blurbs didn't preent it as 'chic lit'). While the writing isn't praiseworthy, it does its job. The title fits better than the last two. Characters and plot cohere and develop. Little fluff, decent length. Its one sex scene with pre- and postludes was in comparison to all others prolonged a chapter. 31 in toto, assuming equally lengthy, that'd be almost 4%. Was he flexing on lesser authors or something? Didn't sit well with me. Would've'n so without knowing his writing domain. Nigh fully plot-irrelevant. The next chapter is of a plot-relevant funeral. It was not as detailed, the various emotions of the 2⸺3 characters and the mass are more off-handedly handled. The second time it was handled appropriately to tone and context, to the plot: 9 sentences, 90 words. Well, spoken too quickly: post-coital sex is a thing for 40-year-olds in Gayle's mind. A few more paragraphs, though not a chapter. The quality of writing is noticeable when he deviates. He write suspenseful romance novels for women. This is neither police procedural, nor an antangonist-focused character study, nor an ego stroke, nor an orgy, nor a romance, nor a detective novel anyhow boiled. The few (as of 80%) 4-ish times the antagonist's perspective was taken, made it feel cheaper in a way. It'd be like watching a criminal expostulate his uncommited crime and make mistakes in perpetrationg, and watching Holmes firstly gloss over these then going 'aha!'. Because it's a choice by the author to focus briefly in the intent, but he chickens out as if. 'Cheesy' could be said of the ending; inexcusable despite being expected given what he writes to pay rent. Also, only two suicides? 'Club' is also deceptive; last 3 chapters tie together the antagonists, who've most acted outside the page up til the final showdown. One serving as an exposition, or rather debriefing, mule. The result is a 5⸺5.5/10 slightly 'suspenseful' police detective novel.

Gayle Wilsonm1.00
The Way of Chuang Tzu

Comparing with

The Suicide Club

Okay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in this sleepy little town in the heart of Middle England in the mid-to-late 00s, gathering from the references. His clique, 'friends', whateverthefucks (defo not what I'd paint with that word in 15, nor at 28) are the secondary characters filling in, they're important. Rhys is a 29-year-old Welshman, so the cultural milieu needn't've'n researched, he lived in it. And this is his first novel published. Bravo. This is my second discovery, first being Jon Athan. He's a few others I'll check out too. Now, off to the CriticismMobile! Or the RemarkMobile..? Anyhoo.

Then, all of a sudden, Craig Bartlett-Taylor started saying something from the back of the class. Lots of kids in my school have double-barrelled surnames because I go to a very good school.
...
‘Sir, Mrs Kenna sent me. There's been the most terrible incident.' It was a ridiculous thing to say but sometimes I can't help saying ridiculous things to people I consider ridiculous.
...
Apart from that though the only big difference between my house and other houses is that the fairly long hallway is full of books. Not just a few books, I mean hundreds of books. My mother's obsessed with them.

I like books and I don't like books. Books are certainly good as storytelling devices because you can get really involved with one. But people whose houses are lined with books I think should spend more time living and less time reading, you know? It's like they have books instead of walls and they think it's really impressive, but it doesn't impress me. I'd rather be fooling around with a girl than reading a book.
...
‘You never even fucking loved me,' she would scream, her voice all warbly. It is such a shocking thing to hear your own mother using the F word.
...
I wanted to hug him and protect him from the world, apart from, of course, there's no protecting anyone from it – it will get you in the end, no matter what.
...
Jenny was there with her warm colours but her insides were all twisted up and rotten.
...
He had that tired look on his face like little kids have when they have to concentrate like crazy on the most mundane of tasks.
...
‘Because you're a fucking moron,' he said calmly, ‘and it has nothing to do with you whether we go or not, you abominable cunt.'
...
‘It will haunt you for ever if you don't.'

‘Good,' I said.

‘You think that's good?'

‘Yes,' I said childishly, but what else was I supposed to do?

‘Richard, studies have shown—'

And then I stopped listening.
...
I'd say he was about nine. I instantly despised him.
...
I believe that the first day that child realizes that he's not going to make it is the day he dies. That's when he joins the masses on the road to the Middle.

Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years.

Rhys Thomas1.00
The Suicide Club

Okay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in this sleepy little town in the heart of Middle England in the mid-to-late 00s, gathering from the references. His clique, 'friends', whateverthefucks (defo not what I'd paint with that word in 15, nor at 28) are the secondary characters filling in, they're important. Rhys is a 29-year-old Welshman, so the cultural milieu needn't've'n researched, he lived in it. And this is his first novel published. Bravo. This is my second discovery, first being Jon Athan. He's a few others I'll check out too. Now, off to the CriticismMobile! Or the RemarkMobile..? Anyhoo.

Then, all of a sudden, Craig Bartlett-Taylor started saying something from the back of the class. Lots of kids in my school have double-barrelled surnames because I go to a very good school.
...
‘Sir, Mrs Kenna sent me. There's been the most terrible incident.' It was a ridiculous thing to say but sometimes I can't help saying ridiculous things to people I consider ridiculous.
...
Apart from that though the only big difference between my house and other houses is that the fairly long hallway is full of books. Not just a few books, I mean hundreds of books. My mother's obsessed with them.

I like books and I don't like books. Books are certainly good as storytelling devices because you can get really involved with one. But people whose houses are lined with books I think should spend more time living and less time reading, you know? It's like they have books instead of walls and they think it's really impressive, but it doesn't impress me. I'd rather be fooling around with a girl than reading a book.
...
‘You never even fucking loved me,' she would scream, her voice all warbly. It is such a shocking thing to hear your own mother using the F word.
...
I wanted to hug him and protect him from the world, apart from, of course, there's no protecting anyone from it – it will get you in the end, no matter what.
...
Jenny was there with her warm colours but her insides were all twisted up and rotten.
...
He had that tired look on his face like little kids have when they have to concentrate like crazy on the most mundane of tasks.
...
‘Because you're a fucking moron,' he said calmly, ‘and it has nothing to do with you whether we go or not, you abominable cunt.'
...
‘It will haunt you for ever if you don't.'

‘Good,' I said.

‘You think that's good?'

‘Yes,' I said childishly, but what else was I supposed to do?

‘Richard, studies have shown—'

And then I stopped listening.
...
I'd say he was about nine. I instantly despised him.
...
I believe that the first day that child realizes that he's not going to make it is the day he dies. That's when he joins the masses on the road to the Middle.

Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years.

Robert Louis Stevensonbm0.59
This Is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path to Getting Better

Okay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in this sleepy little town in the heart of Middle England in the mid-to-late 00s, gathering from the references. His clique, 'friends', whateverthefucks (defo not what I'd paint with that word in 15, nor at 28) are the secondary characters filling in, they're important. Rhys is a 29-year-old Welshman, so the cultural milieu needn't've'n researched, he lived in it. And this is his first novel published. Bravo. This is my second discovery, first being Jon Athan. He's a few others I'll check out too. Now, off to the CriticismMobile! Or the RemarkMobile..? Anyhoo.

Then, all of a sudden, Craig Bartlett-Taylor started saying something from the back of the class. Lots of kids in my school have double-barrelled surnames because I go to a very good school.
...
‘Sir, Mrs Kenna sent me. There's been the most terrible incident.' It was a ridiculous thing to say but sometimes I can't help saying ridiculous things to people I consider ridiculous.
...
Apart from that though the only big difference between my house and other houses is that the fairly long hallway is full of books. Not just a few books, I mean hundreds of books. My mother's obsessed with them.

I like books and I don't like books. Books are certainly good as storytelling devices because you can get really involved with one. But people whose houses are lined with books I think should spend more time living and less time reading, you know? It's like they have books instead of walls and they think it's really impressive, but it doesn't impress me. I'd rather be fooling around with a girl than reading a book.
...
‘You never even fucking loved me,' she would scream, her voice all warbly. It is such a shocking thing to hear your own mother using the F word.
...
I wanted to hug him and protect him from the world, apart from, of course, there's no protecting anyone from it – it will get you in the end, no matter what.
...
Jenny was there with her warm colours but her insides were all twisted up and rotten.
...
He had that tired look on his face like little kids have when they have to concentrate like crazy on the most mundane of tasks.
...
‘Because you're a fucking moron,' he said calmly, ‘and it has nothing to do with you whether we go or not, you abominable cunt.'
...
‘It will haunt you for ever if you don't.'

‘Good,' I said.

‘You think that's good?'

‘Yes,' I said childishly, but what else was I supposed to do?

‘Richard, studies have shown—'

And then I stopped listening.
...
I'd say he was about nine. I instantly despised him.
...
I believe that the first day that child realizes that he's not going to make it is the day he dies. That's when he joins the masses on the road to the Middle.

Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years.

Faith G. Harperkwm0.65
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy

Okay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in this sleepy little town in the heart of Middle England in the mid-to-late 00s, gathering from the references. His clique, 'friends', whateverthefucks (defo not what I'd paint with that word in 15, nor at 28) are the secondary characters filling in, they're important. Rhys is a 29-year-old Welshman, so the cultural milieu needn't've'n researched, he lived in it. And this is his first novel published. Bravo. This is my second discovery, first being Jon Athan. He's a few others I'll check out too. Now, off to the CriticismMobile! Or the RemarkMobile..? Anyhoo.

Then, all of a sudden, Craig Bartlett-Taylor started saying something from the back of the class. Lots of kids in my school have double-barrelled surnames because I go to a very good school.
...
‘Sir, Mrs Kenna sent me. There's been the most terrible incident.' It was a ridiculous thing to say but sometimes I can't help saying ridiculous things to people I consider ridiculous.
...
Apart from that though the only big difference between my house and other houses is that the fairly long hallway is full of books. Not just a few books, I mean hundreds of books. My mother's obsessed with them.

I like books and I don't like books. Books are certainly good as storytelling devices because you can get really involved with one. But people whose houses are lined with books I think should spend more time living and less time reading, you know? It's like they have books instead of walls and they think it's really impressive, but it doesn't impress me. I'd rather be fooling around with a girl than reading a book.
...
‘You never even fucking loved me,' she would scream, her voice all warbly. It is such a shocking thing to hear your own mother using the F word.
...
I wanted to hug him and protect him from the world, apart from, of course, there's no protecting anyone from it – it will get you in the end, no matter what.
...
Jenny was there with her warm colours but her insides were all twisted up and rotten.
...
He had that tired look on his face like little kids have when they have to concentrate like crazy on the most mundane of tasks.
...
‘Because you're a fucking moron,' he said calmly, ‘and it has nothing to do with you whether we go or not, you abominable cunt.'
...
‘It will haunt you for ever if you don't.'

‘Good,' I said.

‘You think that's good?'

‘Yes,' I said childishly, but what else was I supposed to do?

‘Richard, studies have shown—'

And then I stopped listening.
...
I'd say he was about nine. I instantly despised him.
...
I believe that the first day that child realizes that he's not going to make it is the day he dies. That's when he joins the masses on the road to the Middle.

Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years.

Daniel T. Willinghamkm0.21
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

Okay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in this sleepy little town in the heart of Middle England in the mid-to-late 00s, gathering from the references. His clique, 'friends', whateverthefucks (defo not what I'd paint with that word in 15, nor at 28) are the secondary characters filling in, they're important. Rhys is a 29-year-old Welshman, so the cultural milieu needn't've'n researched, he lived in it. And this is his first novel published. Bravo. This is my second discovery, first being Jon Athan. He's a few others I'll check out too. Now, off to the CriticismMobile! Or the RemarkMobile..? Anyhoo.

Then, all of a sudden, Craig Bartlett-Taylor started saying something from the back of the class. Lots of kids in my school have double-barrelled surnames because I go to a very good school.
...
‘Sir, Mrs Kenna sent me. There's been the most terrible incident.' It was a ridiculous thing to say but sometimes I can't help saying ridiculous things to people I consider ridiculous.
...
Apart from that though the only big difference between my house and other houses is that the fairly long hallway is full of books. Not just a few books, I mean hundreds of books. My mother's obsessed with them.

I like books and I don't like books. Books are certainly good as storytelling devices because you can get really involved with one. But people whose houses are lined with books I think should spend more time living and less time reading, you know? It's like they have books instead of walls and they think it's really impressive, but it doesn't impress me. I'd rather be fooling around with a girl than reading a book.
...
‘You never even fucking loved me,' she would scream, her voice all warbly. It is such a shocking thing to hear your own mother using the F word.
...
I wanted to hug him and protect him from the world, apart from, of course, there's no protecting anyone from it – it will get you in the end, no matter what.
...
Jenny was there with her warm colours but her insides were all twisted up and rotten.
...
He had that tired look on his face like little kids have when they have to concentrate like crazy on the most mundane of tasks.
...
‘Because you're a fucking moron,' he said calmly, ‘and it has nothing to do with you whether we go or not, you abominable cunt.'
...
‘It will haunt you for ever if you don't.'

‘Good,' I said.

‘You think that's good?'

‘Yes,' I said childishly, but what else was I supposed to do?

‘Richard, studies have shown—'

And then I stopped listening.
...
I'd say he was about nine. I instantly despised him.
...
I believe that the first day that child realizes that he's not going to make it is the day he dies. That's when he joins the masses on the road to the Middle.

Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years.

Adrian Chilesm0.35
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis (Expanded Edition)

Waited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents.

The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: le but what if he was actually talking about himself?

The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying.
Sotos' is next. Again, stupid emotional bullshit about victims' parents. Big yawn. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Care. The rest is throwing shade and really tedious details that have little-to-nothing to do with anything of the book. Although I'm dropping this shit at below 78%, I consider this read. The expansion is not worth it, unless you like moral posturing and attacks and literally what Brady rightfully accuses the normies of.

Ian Brady1.00
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Waited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents.

The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: le but what if he was actually talking about himself?

The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying.
Sotos' is next. Again, stupid emotional bullshit about victims' parents. Big yawn. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Care. The rest is throwing shade and really tedious details that have little-to-nothing to do with anything of the book. Although I'm dropping this shit at below 78%, I consider this read. The expansion is not worth it, unless you like moral posturing and attacks and literally what Brady rightfully accuses the normies of.

Nina KushnerBm♀0.08
The Prisoner of Zenda

Waited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents.

The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: le but what if he was actually talking about himself?

The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying.
Sotos' is next. Again, stupid emotional bullshit about victims' parents. Big yawn. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Care. The rest is throwing shade and really tedious details that have little-to-nothing to do with anything of the book. Although I'm dropping this shit at below 78%, I consider this read. The expansion is not worth it, unless you like moral posturing and attacks and literally what Brady rightfully accuses the normies of.

Anthony HopeBa0.04
The Shadow at the Door

Waited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents.

The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: le but what if he was actually talking about himself?

The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying.
Sotos' is next. Again, stupid emotional bullshit about victims' parents. Big yawn. I. Do. Not. Fucking. Care. The rest is throwing shade and really tedious details that have little-to-nothing to do with anything of the book. Although I'm dropping this shit at below 78%, I consider this read. The expansion is not worth it, unless you like moral posturing and attacks and literally what Brady rightfully accuses the normies of.

Tim Weaverw0.03
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

Overfocussed on thermodynamics. It's publisher thought Heyyy. Einstein's in! ... Let's make some dosh! ... Howsaboutem phogistons? Heat'n'stuff? ... I'll call it Einstein's Fridge (even though he's irrelevant to, at best, tangential to TD)! lickerish RolodexingIt had its time in both the 18. and 19. centuries. Yet then too was it not a sole musketeers.

Paul Senkmb1.00
This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woodsbm0.29
Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Dave RubinKw0.18
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Andy Greenbergbm0.63
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Andy GreenbergbBm0.19
Gotrek Gurnisson: Realmslayer

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Darius HinksAw0.02
Gotrek and Felix: Berthold's Beard

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Joshua Reynoldsb0.13
Gotrek and Felix: Lost Tales

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

V.A.b0.25
Age of Sigmar: Gitslayer

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Darius Hinksb0.03
Gotrek and Felix: Marriage of Moment

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

Josh Reynoldsm0.87
Gotrek and Felix: Myths and Legends

This could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind?

William Kingbm0.07
Happy People Are Annoying

I was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly..

Josh Peckm0.54
Gotrek and Felix: 15 - City of the Damned

I was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly..

David Guymermaw0.85
Gotrek and Felix: ?? - Kinslayer

I was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly..

David Guymerb0.03
Gotrek and Felix: Into the Valley of Death

I was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly..

Frank Cavallomb0.13
Ultra-Processed People: The Food We Eat That Isn't Food and Why We Can't Stop

The way the book is written is infuriating. He's missing the point LCHF is making, he's makes no effort to understand the science, he's focusing on minutae, he starts about study design, and wholesale forgets all of it and takes groups with very conflicting interests' opinions and statements as truthful. What the fuck?

Chris van TullekenKma0.40
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

The preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience.

Jeff StrandmwMa0.59
It Came from the Trailer Park: 1

The preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience.

V.A., Sara Brooke (ed.)Wp0.06
Re-Animator

The preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience.

Jeff Rovinbm0.12
Happy-Go-Lucky

The liberated, successful, first generation immigrant child experience? I write this as I found it not in libgen as a standalone. Seems to be a stitching together, since lacking narrative, of the author's best stories from recorded stand-up specials and his other books, which are also anecdotes. David is: now in his 50s; he is gay but it's not a central or too defining characteristic of him; haha, drugs are funny, or something like that; successful enough writer and to cover all levels of Maslow's; a mildly annoying (to me) lib. I don't like compilations, best-ofs. Not for music, nor for literature. I have a hard enough time context-switching, reinvesting when reading anthologies or short story collections. I got to know his style. I'll give his others a fair shake or 3. Frankly, he's a like a 5.5 or 6, entertainment-wise. He didn't me grin, giggle, chuckle, asperate, let alone laugh. But he wasn't actively *un-*enjoyable (assuming a 5's a median). I expect to get more of the same, only of lesser quality and with some diagetic coherence.

David Sedarisma0.62
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

Who's more guilty: the uninspired, fake, placcid, non-human female reader, or the bland, authoring cunt? This is some boring shit. I like documentaries, I wanted to know why they exist, how they went about existing. They serve to broadly both appeal to, and to rope into science the more interested of the lay. Which would then unlay them. In both senses (unlay v. 1. (tr., intr.) to remove (somebody, oneself) from the group of laymen (for a specific area); 2. (tr., intr.) to not have sexual intercourse (with somebody) or to make (somebody, oneself) intelligible therefor) a of this newly coined by me (Don't quote me on that.) word (Already a nautical term for 'to untwist'.).

Nora StoneBg0.28
Metamorphosis

Who's more guilty: the uninspired, fake, placcid, non-human female reader, or the bland, authoring cunt? This is some boring shit. I like documentaries, I wanted to know why they exist, how they went about existing. They serve to broadly both appeal to, and to rope into science the more interested of the lay. Which would then unlay them. In both senses (unlay v. 1. (tr., intr.) to remove (somebody, oneself) from the group of laymen (for a specific area); 2. (tr., intr.) to not have sexual intercourse (with somebody) or to make (somebody, oneself) intelligible therefor) a of this newly coined by me (Don't quote me on that.) word (Already a nautical term for 'to untwist'.).

Franz Kafka, Ian Johnston (tr.)1.00
Metamorphosis

Decent enough translation for 12⸺15-year-old, the newest flavor of degeneracy, the most targeted, easiest to sway, to sell to US demographic⸻, but lacks the vocabulary breadth and depth of the original. And its handsome Süddeutsch-isms. Awkward millenial edition..? I have an older audiobook of this title, hopefully of a better, older translation

Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky (tr.)1.00
Metamorphosis

Decent enough translation for teenager, but lacks the vocabulary breadth and depth of the original. And its handsome Süddeutsch-isms. Included some interlude I skimmed; didn't add anything. Which is to say, it subtracted. The rest 2/3s were criticism, the first of which was a yawn, and second started off as the very same, so I wrote off the rest confidently. They said nothing in many-many words also confidently. I read this while listening to Susan Bernofsky's (Or Ian Johnston's? Or are hers and Corngold's based off of his? They really should announce all contributors upfront, rather than at end, or, in the audiobook's case, not at all!) translation. The few notes weren't worth the effort of writing them, I'd think. To a 21. century, middle class, first or second world non-European (say, a snownigger, sandnigger, ricenigger, american, etc.), one without basic knowledge of then life, customs, traditions, that is, sans context, a tenfolding of their number would be necessary to better paint the picture. So, uuuh, Norton Critical Edition was it (already deleted it)? Go fuck yourself.

Franz Kafka, Stan Corngold (tr.), V.A.✔M0.48
Red Dog

There's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.)

Louis de Bernièresbpm0.21
You're Next

There's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.)

Gregg Hurwitzwbp0.05
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: 1 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold

There's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.)

Toshikazu Kawaguchiwam0.13
The Road out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

There's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.)

Anthony Flacco, Jerry Clark, Michael H. Stonem1.00
Santa Steps out

Just lovely. Immoral, cheeky, satirically human. Behavior showcased through some Christian and, more so, Greek mythologies. Sprinkle in child innocence and adult trudge. Unseriously desecrating Christians' highly hypocritic ideals and idols (LMFAO! The 'no [false idols/idolatry]' tenet of Judeo-Christian tradition? The one from Moses' slab? The more zealous the person, the more counts of this s/he can be charged with. Always. What a farce religious cunts are. Disgraceful.). (The) Tooth Fairy, Santa/Nikolaus Claus (of Myra), Lucifer, Anya/Mrs Claus, and (the) Easter Bunny are the the main characters. Each represents one character in both pantheons, that is two in toto. Wherefrom the hijinx and discrepancies, that and the move from Greco-Roman to Judeo-Christian in the Western world, that is Europe and Northern America. The writing is surprisingly good from an author I'd not read mentioned in splatterpunk or gore or wicked or edgy anthologies, not that I've read much. His Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit was, for a short story collection, for me (I don't do well with those.), quite good. The material is the same thematically. What rustled my feathers: the arbitrariness, or rather plot-convenience, of the supernatural beings' power distribution; the inconsistent coherence of the world (The tooth fairy's a necromancer (No. She's Pitys, the nymph.)? The missus⸻a miracle healer via tongue (St. Nik wasn't married, I think, and story mentions not who she was in the Greek.)? Lucifer⸻a reindeer with great olfaction?); the too quick resolution between oppositions; the polygamy and polyandry encouragement next-to-last chapter; the maudlin everything post-disappointing-climax. The author's afterword explains his research, his thought and writing processes, his potential and actual publishers' and editors' comments, the coerced edits and rewrites the novel endured. Informative.
All in all, very decent, rereadable even. Pacing and density, vocab are good. Not very xmas-y despite all. It did get a few chuckles (and a laugh?) out of me, which is rare enough already. Motherlode of good quotes too. So props, kudos, shots to and for Devereaux. May you be reborn to non-French parents.

Robert Devereaux1.00
Frozen Hell

Just lovely. Immoral, cheeky, satirically human. Behavior showcased through some Christian and, more so, Greek mythologies. Sprinkle in child innocence and adult trudge. Unseriously desecrating Christians' highly hypocritic ideals and idols (LMFAO! The 'no [false idols/idolatry]' tenet of Judeo-Christian tradition? The one from Moses' slab? The more zealous the person, the more counts of this s/he can be charged with. Always. What a farce religious cunts are. Disgraceful.). (The) Tooth Fairy, Santa/Nikolaus Claus (of Myra), Lucifer, Anya/Mrs Claus, and (the) Easter Bunny are the the main characters. Each represents one character in both pantheons, that is two in toto. Wherefrom the hijinx and discrepancies, that and the move from Greco-Roman to Judeo-Christian in the Western world, that is Europe and Northern America. The writing is surprisingly good from an author I'd not read mentioned in splatterpunk or gore or wicked or edgy anthologies, not that I've read much. His Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit was, for a short story collection, for me (I don't do well with those.), quite good. The material is the same thematically. What rustled my feathers: the arbitrariness, or rather plot-convenience, of the supernatural beings' power distribution; the inconsistent coherence of the world (The tooth fairy's a necromancer (No. She's Pitys, the nymph.)? The missus⸻a miracle healer via tongue (St. Nik wasn't married, I think, and story mentions not who she was in the Greek.)? Lucifer⸻a reindeer with great olfaction?); the too quick resolution between oppositions; the polygamy and polyandry encouragement next-to-last chapter; the maudlin everything post-disappointing-climax. The author's afterword explains his research, his thought and writing processes, his potential and actual publishers' and editors' comments, the coerced edits and rewrites the novel endured. Informative.
All in all, very decent, rereadable even. Pacing and density, vocab are good. Not very xmas-y despite all. It did get a few chuckles (and a laugh?) out of me, which is rare enough already. Motherlode of good quotes too. So props, kudos, shots to and for Devereaux. May you be reborn to non-French parents.

John W. Campbell Jr.Mm1.00
Missing out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

I'd recommend this book to all men, especially those in their 20s and 30s. Those having past, say, 25, when the tumult of hormonal carpet-bombing has concluded, after hitting our (first) energy wall, realizing 'oh, shit, i'm aging'; and those frustrated. We all⸻yes, that includes you, lizard alien jew illuminati overloads⸻, experience frustration. Frustrations. The author is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist. A well-read one at that. One who's skin in the game, who's been working for a long time, not an armchair philosopher, writer, know-it-all.

Alluded to in 018 and 019, it is (and later, possibly too much) is a heavy-hitter. The first part (of six) I read thrice before proceeding. Second and third twice. The other parts warrant another as well. The talk of frustration, frameworks of psychoanalysts and psychologists help define the problems many of us experience as people. I would recommend it any male in trouble, however defined in whatever domain. I'll revisit it again later.

Adam Phillips✔✔1.47
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

I'd recommend this book to all men, especially those in their 20s and 30s. Those having past, say, 25, when the tumult of hormonal carpet-bombing has concluded, after hitting our (first) energy wall, realizing 'oh, shit, i'm aging'; and those frustrated. We all⸻yes, that includes you, lizard alien jew illuminati overloads⸻, experience frustration. Frustrations. The author is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist. A well-read one at that. One who's skin in the game, who's been working for a long time, not an armchair philosopher, writer, know-it-all.

Alluded to in 018 and 019, it is (and later, possibly too much) is a heavy-hitter. The first part (of six) I read thrice before proceeding. Second and third twice. The other parts warrant another as well. The talk of frustration, frameworks of psychoanalysts and psychologists help define the problems many of us experience as people. I would recommend it any male in trouble, however defined in whatever domain. I'll revisit it again later.

Wendy Lowermkg0.84
Maneater

In tone, plot, prot- and antagonist, this mirrors his Lovesick. That, I think, was my first read of his. We follow a mentally ill with an obsession for/to/with an ideal projected onto a normal. When phantasy and reality don't overlap, they take reality by the horns and throw a series of increasingly violent hissy fits. With main's and other's, or if diseased, or other's close, if they're alive. This time, author targets female readers, thought it is written in a strictly male fashion. Female violence and vengeance are of a different nature, more subtle and indirect. There were two conscious nods at both characters from that novel, as a 'news item', with them being residents in the same town/city. Self-promoting, eh Jon? Well, it's better done than the Mr. Snuff universe of ~6 novels, that you never wrapped up.
At 6 hours of audiobook at normal speed (Nothing in libgen and #bookz.), this would be ~6e4 words, a bit shorter than most of his novels. Like what its copying, this too is diegetically stunted, though world-building, just context is more plentiful than before. Author's improvement rather than a conscious effort. I wouldn't again say this'd warrant a reread. It attempts to be more womanly, yet still is male. It reads as what a teenaged boy would say a female is (J.A.'s my age, and he's a wife too, if not child, the fucking fucker.). The thinking is too male, so she comes off as weird, inauthentic, alien. Advice from one or more females would've'n helpful here. Work with an editor, Jon, for fuck's sake. Also, that is some horrendous cover art. Differing from last time, the victim had more time on the stage during acts 1 and 2. The first was barely there in Lovesick. Disappointing resolution of everything. Jon, you're growing soft on me.

Jon AthanMmwp1.00
Natural Beauty

In tone, plot, prot- and antagonist, this mirrors his Lovesick. That, I think, was my first read of his. We follow a mentally ill with an obsession for/to/with an ideal projected onto a normal. When phantasy and reality don't overlap, they take reality by the horns and throw a series of increasingly violent hissy fits. With main's and other's, or if diseased, or other's close, if they're alive. This time, author targets female readers, thought it is written in a strictly male fashion. Female violence and vengeance are of a different nature, more subtle and indirect. There were two conscious nods at both characters from that novel, as a 'news item', with them being residents in the same town/city. Self-promoting, eh Jon? Well, it's better done than the Mr. Snuff universe of ~6 novels, that you never wrapped up.
At 6 hours of audiobook at normal speed (Nothing in libgen and #bookz.), this would be ~6e4 words, a bit shorter than most of his novels. Like what its copying, this too is diegetically stunted, though world-building, just context is more plentiful than before. Author's improvement rather than a conscious effort. I wouldn't again say this'd warrant a reread. It attempts to be more womanly, yet still is male. It reads as what a teenaged boy would say a female is (J.A.'s my age, and he's a wife too, if not child, the fucking fucker.). The thinking is too male, so she comes off as weird, inauthentic, alien. Advice from one or more females would've'n helpful here. Work with an editor, Jon, for fuck's sake. Also, that is some horrendous cover art. Differing from last time, the victim had more time on the stage during acts 1 and 2. The first was barely there in Lovesick. Disappointing resolution of everything. Jon, you're growing soft on me.

Ling Ling Huang1.00
Money: A Suicide Note

Martin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and you almost there. Middle-class Britishisms galore. Very colorful language too. Filigree, brocade, mulliands, crenellations. What strikes as odd is that out moneyman is eloquent and knowledgeable, vocabulant That is so not a word. enough to rarely repeat himself while staying true to pub cant.
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness Neil Swidey Mm 1 Something to mellow out. Ever wanted to know how big coastal settlements and speficially Boston, USA deal with sewage? How about have shallow and deep water diving jargon/colloquialisms and terminology? Diving gear? The whole public lives of all characters involved in the story? The wikipedia page on the facility has less than a paragraph of this incident. Its construction and that's (wish I had a German dessen) finalization, clean-up were non-trivial, set back, protested, delayed, were defrayed handsomely by your lowly citizen. The details are too much to be annoying, and the story is nice. Would have made a nice movie like 2016's Deepwater Horizon. Even cheap film-location-wise. Too much human-human interaction, narration over presumed emotion and thought, which is slightly annoying. I'm sure Neil Swidey shelled out for the court documents and interviewed all willing and capable (Non-NDA'd? Unsilenced?) actors. Says so much in the epilog. Nevertheless, post-climax, it's only downhill. A too slow unwind. At 138e3 words, it is a bit too long, 20⸺40e3 too much?

Martin Amis✔✔1.00
Richard Oppenheimer: 1 - Germania

Martin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and you almost there. Middle-class Britishisms galore. Very colorful language too. Filigree, brocade, mulliands, crenellations. What strikes as odd is that out moneyman is eloquent and knowledgeable, vocabulant That is so not a word. enough to rarely repeat himself while staying true to pub cant.
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness Neil Swidey Mm 1 Something to mellow out. Ever wanted to know how big coastal settlements and speficially Boston, USA deal with sewage? How about have shallow and deep water diving jargon/colloquialisms and terminology? Diving gear? The whole public lives of all characters involved in the story? The wikipedia page on the facility has less than a paragraph of this incident. Its construction and that's (wish I had a German dessen) finalization, clean-up were non-trivial, set back, protested, delayed, were defrayed handsomely by your lowly citizen. The details are too much to be annoying, and the story is nice. Would have made a nice movie like 2016's Deepwater Horizon. Even cheap film-location-wise. Too much human-human interaction, narration over presumed emotion and thought, which is slightly annoying. I'm sure Neil Swidey shelled out for the court documents and interviewed all willing and capable (Non-NDA'd? Unsilenced?) actors. Says so much in the epilog. Nevertheless, post-climax, it's only downhill. A too slow unwind. At 138e3 words, it is a bit too long, 20⸺40e3 too much?

Harald Gilbersm0.29
Mobshot: My Life and the Mafia

Martin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and you almost there. Middle-class Britishisms galore. Very colorful language too. Filigree, brocade, mulliands, crenellations. What strikes as odd is that out moneyman is eloquent and knowledgeable, vocabulant That is so not a word. enough to rarely repeat himself while staying true to pub cant.
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness Neil Swidey Mm 1 Something to mellow out. Ever wanted to know how big coastal settlements and speficially Boston, USA deal with sewage? How about have shallow and deep water diving jargon/colloquialisms and terminology? Diving gear? The whole public lives of all characters involved in the story? The wikipedia page on the facility has less than a paragraph of this incident. Its construction and that's (wish I had a German dessen) finalization, clean-up were non-trivial, set back, protested, delayed, were defrayed handsomely by your lowly citizen. The details are too much to be annoying, and the story is nice. Would have made a nice movie like 2016's Deepwater Horizon. Even cheap film-location-wise. Too much human-human interaction, narration over presumed emotion and thought, which is slightly annoying. I'm sure Neil Swidey shelled out for the court documents and interviewed all willing and capable (Non-NDA'd? Unsilenced?) actors. Says so much in the epilog. Nevertheless, post-climax, it's only downhill. A too slow unwind. At 138e3 words, it is a bit too long, 20⸺40e3 too much?

Vince Ciaccib0.03
Maeve Fly

A slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of The Story of the Eye's egg shenanigans, no violent, fringe sex. Female perspective erotica. With the adjective its a greater still literary and mental turn-off. The third act resolved all threads unspun in the first and second, almost satisfyingly, at a higher tempo, with stakes.
For a first novel, written from the unfair sex, it's (very?) good.

C.J. Leede✓Ma1.00
Gotrek and Felix: ?? - Slayer

A slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of The Story of the Eye's egg shenanigans, no violent, fringe sex. Female perspective erotica. With the adjective its a greater still literary and mental turn-off. The third act resolved all threads unspun in the first and second, almost satisfyingly, at a higher tempo, with stakes.
For a first novel, written from the unfair sex, it's (very?) good.

David Guymerpbm0.11
The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

A slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of The Story of the Eye's egg shenanigans, no violent, fringe sex. Female perspective erotica. With the adjective its a greater still literary and mental turn-off. The third act resolved all threads unspun in the first and second, almost satisfyingly, at a higher tempo, with stakes.
For a first novel, written from the unfair sex, it's (very?) good.

Nick de Semlyenm1.00
On the Third Day, They Die

I've almost passed 11% of the whole. It's What it says on the tin. And nowhere near the quality of writing of his Suicide Club. Disappointing. Has SARS-CoV2 'vibes', in a way although it was published a decade before that, and the governments of countries aren't as moustache-twirlingly malevolent. Characters have had no depth, they're stereotypes. The premise of contagion causing 3-day depression leading to suicide could have worked. 2008's movie The Happening did this well. Also had, from the little I recall of my viewing of it nearly 15 years ago, actual people, not emotion cut-outs. On the other hand, this might've'n his very first novel, at 17⸺19 years of age. Not emotionally mature in the least. The predictable toons are obnoxious. And whatever happens shouldn't be doing so in 176000 fucking words.

Rhys Thomasawm0.11
The Rokkaia Chronicles

Another failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know.

Rhys ThomasBw0.04
Sam Holloway: 1 - The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway

Another failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know.

Rhys Thomasb0.07
Hell House

Another failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know.

Richard MathesonBw0.05
Sir Henry Merrivale: 8 - The Judas Window

Another failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know.

John Dickson Carrmb0.22
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

A defector book again? Only this time, it is from a person born and raise in a multi-generational detention camp. The introduction was nice. The usual spiel of how author came across person, but also shedding light on others' quick to wane interest, let alone involvement or call to action, protest. The escapee's story is more violent than those of regular citizens', has more psychological abuse. The extensive of which can be see in his slow adaptation to South Korean and American life.

Blaine HardenmM1.00
The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

I can't recall who it was, but another doctor, a pathologist (or coroner, for which you don't need to be a doctor of medicine in the UK (or was it the US of A?)), had written a book about, well, death. Those of his clients. Or maybe, since they're not paying up, that's not the right word. Regardless, he did so likewise, chapters being organs or muscle( group)s.

Jonathan ReismanmMk1.00
Captives and Captors

Jon watched 2013's Prisoners on NetFlix. Jon think he could do better. He didn't. Or at least recreate its tone and some of its plot minus mental retardation. He didn't. Jon, being a family man (now, dunno if then, but morals change over 20 years, not 5), inserts moralistic states. Like undeserved revenge porn. Or just fight-over-able ones, like what's the different between a 18-yeas-and-1-day-old fucking a 17-year-360-day-old. Of course, the older is the male, because fuck forbid fiction reflect the truth of psychologically abusive women being times more likely to be violent towards children and or spouses, their crimes never mentioned, whispered even, let alone reported. Fuck you, Jon. Fuck you, and your stupid fucking wife and cunt child. The mentioned movie has a single subversion, the deficiency of the victim, had tension and dynamics between the detective and father, and father and prisoner. Since the victim here talks, is a normal human male, the former's reduced, and the latter are lukewark. Being reasonable, or at least not retarded, he doesn't argue his case, doesn't give all possible information to dissuade the dad. The detective here actually egging him on. Shallow; badly dialoged; no-dimensional characters. The plot's a threadbare dress for torture porn, a moustache.

Jon AthanMwm1.00
Sinister Syndromes

Jon watched 2013's Prisoners on NetFlix. Jon think he could do better. He didn't. Or at least recreate its tone and some of its plot minus mental retardation. He didn't. Jon, being a family man (now, dunno if then, but morals change over 20 years, not 5), inserts moralistic states. Like undeserved revenge porn. Or just fight-over-able ones, like what's the different between a 18-yeas-and-1-day-old fucking a 17-year-360-day-old. Of course, the older is the male, because fuck forbid fiction reflect the truth of psychologically abusive women being times more likely to be violent towards children and or spouses, their crimes never mentioned, whispered even, let alone reported. Fuck you, Jon. Fuck you, and your stupid fucking wife and cunt child. The mentioned movie has a single subversion, the deficiency of the victim, had tension and dynamics between the detective and father, and father and prisoner. Since the victim here talks, is a normal human male, the former's reduced, and the latter are lukewark. Being reasonable, or at least not retarded, he doesn't argue his case, doesn't give all possible information to dissuade the dad. The detective here actually egging him on. Shallow; badly dialoged; no-dimensional characters. The plot's a threadbare dress for torture porn, a moustache.

Jon Athanmbw1.00
The Creepy Pasta Collection: Modern Urban Legends You Can't Unread

Jon watched 2013's Prisoners on NetFlix. Jon think he could do better. He didn't. Or at least recreate its tone and some of its plot minus mental retardation. He didn't. Jon, being a family man (now, dunno if then, but morals change over 20 years, not 5), inserts moralistic states. Like undeserved revenge porn. Or just fight-over-able ones, like what's the different between a 18-yeas-and-1-day-old fucking a 17-year-360-day-old. Of course, the older is the male, because fuck forbid fiction reflect the truth of psychologically abusive women being times more likely to be violent towards children and or spouses, their crimes never mentioned, whispered even, let alone reported. Fuck you, Jon. Fuck you, and your stupid fucking wife and cunt child. The mentioned movie has a single subversion, the deficiency of the victim, had tension and dynamics between the detective and father, and father and prisoner. Since the victim here talks, is a normal human male, the former's reduced, and the latter are lukewark. Being reasonable, or at least not retarded, he doesn't argue his case, doesn't give all possible information to dissuade the dad. The detective here actually egging him on. Shallow; badly dialoged; no-dimensional characters. The plot's a threadbare dress for torture porn, a moustache.

V.A., MrCreepyPasta (ed.)wa0.12
The Balkans: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Balkan Peninsula, Starting from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period

Jon watched 2013's Prisoners on NetFlix. Jon think he could do better. He didn't. Or at least recreate its tone and some of its plot minus mental retardation. He didn't. Jon, being a family man (now, dunno if then, but morals change over 20 years, not 5), inserts moralistic states. Like undeserved revenge porn. Or just fight-over-able ones, like what's the different between a 18-yeas-and-1-day-old fucking a 17-year-360-day-old. Of course, the older is the male, because fuck forbid fiction reflect the truth of psychologically abusive women being times more likely to be violent towards children and or spouses, their crimes never mentioned, whispered even, let alone reported. Fuck you, Jon. Fuck you, and your stupid fucking wife and cunt child. The mentioned movie has a single subversion, the deficiency of the victim, had tension and dynamics between the detective and father, and father and prisoner. Since the victim here talks, is a normal human male, the former's reduced, and the latter are lukewark. Being reasonable, or at least not retarded, he doesn't argue his case, doesn't give all possible information to dissuade the dad. The detective here actually egging him on. Shallow; badly dialoged; no-dimensional characters. The plot's a threadbare dress for torture porn, a moustache.

Captivating Historykm0.76
Alien Nation

at ~50% Take the the District 9 movie, extend it by too much, and make it a interracial interspecial buddy cop thing. That's this. A.D.F. has done many novelizations, this is another one, so I shouldn't I should be too-too negative..? Though there exist novelizations that are better than their original medium. I haven't seen 1988's Alien Nation, but the trailer, looks to be not great, not good, barely decent? High 5 or low 6 imdb-wise, I'd guess.. I wouldnt guess this made bank, so why would they comission the piece? Or why would ADF go for this movie? Practice..? The former movie did the actual racism, properly, this just look like, 'Hey, let's put blacks in some get-up and do a movie about corporate shenanigans/mob stuff and cops!'. If you go in blind, that is, uncorrupted by either movie or similar media with interspecial tensions, it's still not good? Why? Because the aliens are just there. They don't being bring anything to the table. Like I said, niggers in get-up. Or chicks. Or spics. Or snowniggers. Just another (human) culture and (human) history. Cheap and unimaginative; airport-novel-tier.

Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
Does it become an 'M'? Nah. Still airport-y. This section of dialog describes the author, his work, and how the public will/can/could view it:

The detective masticated a mouthful of burger. “You know, when you guys first landed here everyone expected extraordinary things from you. Supersecrets of the stars, and all thatcrap.” “Unreasonable expectations.” Francisco daintily ticked a loose fragment of mole into the corner of his mouth. “No shit. Imagine the disappointment when everybody realized you were just a bunch of dumb joes stuck on a one-way barge you didn't even know how to operate. I hear it's gonna take decades, maybe centuries for our scientists to even start to figure out how the engine on your ship works.” “None of us knows,” Francisco explained unnecessarily. Newcomer ignorance of their own science was common knowledge. “We were only passengers. When you get on a plane all you have to know how to do to reach your destination is how to buy a ticket. No one expects you to fuel the plane, check it for damage, and navigate it.” “Yeah. Still, I suppose that U.N. team tearing the guts out of your strip will get a few money-making patents out of it sooner or later. Hey,” he said brightly, “maybe it's a good thing you folks weren't any better than you turned out to be, huh.” “That is probably the truth,” Francisco said carefully.

Alan Dean Fosterm1.00
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

at ~50% Take the the District 9 movie, extend it by too much, and make it a interracial interspecial buddy cop thing. That's this. A.D.F. has done many novelizations, this is another one, so I shouldn't I should be too-too negative..? Though there exist novelizations that are better than their original medium. I haven't seen 1988's Alien Nation, but the trailer, looks to be not great, not good, barely decent? High 5 or low 6 imdb-wise, I'd guess.. I wouldnt guess this made bank, so why would they comission the piece? Or why would ADF go for this movie? Practice..? The former movie did the actual racism, properly, this just look like, 'Hey, let's put blacks in some get-up and do a movie about corporate shenanigans/mob stuff and cops!'. If you go in blind, that is, uncorrupted by either movie or similar media with interspecial tensions, it's still not good? Why? Because the aliens are just there. They don't being bring anything to the table. Like I said, niggers in get-up. Or chicks. Or spics. Or snowniggers. Just another (human) culture and (human) history. Cheap and unimaginative; airport-novel-tier.

Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
Does it become an 'M'? Nah. Still airport-y. This section of dialog describes the author, his work, and how the public will/can/could view it:

The detective masticated a mouthful of burger. “You know, when you guys first landed here everyone expected extraordinary things from you. Supersecrets of the stars, and all thatcrap.” “Unreasonable expectations.” Francisco daintily ticked a loose fragment of mole into the corner of his mouth. “No shit. Imagine the disappointment when everybody realized you were just a bunch of dumb joes stuck on a one-way barge you didn't even know how to operate. I hear it's gonna take decades, maybe centuries for our scientists to even start to figure out how the engine on your ship works.” “None of us knows,” Francisco explained unnecessarily. Newcomer ignorance of their own science was common knowledge. “We were only passengers. When you get on a plane all you have to know how to do to reach your destination is how to buy a ticket. No one expects you to fuel the plane, check it for damage, and navigate it.” “Yeah. Still, I suppose that U.N. team tearing the guts out of your strip will get a few money-making patents out of it sooner or later. Hey,” he said brightly, “maybe it's a good thing you folks weren't any better than you turned out to be, huh.” “That is probably the truth,” Francisco said carefully.

John G. Matsusakabm0.64
The Story of the Eye

at ~50% Take the the District 9 movie, extend it by too much, and make it a interracial interspecial buddy cop thing. That's this. A.D.F. has done many novelizations, this is another one, so I shouldn't I should be too-too negative..? Though there exist novelizations that are better than their original medium. I haven't seen 1988's Alien Nation, but the trailer, looks to be not great, not good, barely decent? High 5 or low 6 imdb-wise, I'd guess.. I wouldnt guess this made bank, so why would they comission the piece? Or why would ADF go for this movie? Practice..? The former movie did the actual racism, properly, this just look like, 'Hey, let's put blacks in some get-up and do a movie about corporate shenanigans/mob stuff and cops!'. If you go in blind, that is, uncorrupted by either movie or similar media with interspecial tensions, it's still not good? Why? Because the aliens are just there. They don't being bring anything to the table. Like I said, niggers in get-up. Or chicks. Or spics. Or snowniggers. Just another (human) culture and (human) history. Cheap and unimaginative; airport-novel-tier.

Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
Does it become an 'M'? Nah. Still airport-y. This section of dialog describes the author, his work, and how the public will/can/could view it:

The detective masticated a mouthful of burger. “You know, when you guys first landed here everyone expected extraordinary things from you. Supersecrets of the stars, and all thatcrap.” “Unreasonable expectations.” Francisco daintily ticked a loose fragment of mole into the corner of his mouth. “No shit. Imagine the disappointment when everybody realized you were just a bunch of dumb joes stuck on a one-way barge you didn't even know how to operate. I hear it's gonna take decades, maybe centuries for our scientists to even start to figure out how the engine on your ship works.” “None of us knows,” Francisco explained unnecessarily. Newcomer ignorance of their own science was common knowledge. “We were only passengers. When you get on a plane all you have to know how to do to reach your destination is how to buy a ticket. No one expects you to fuel the plane, check it for damage, and navigate it.” “Yeah. Still, I suppose that U.N. team tearing the guts out of your strip will get a few money-making patents out of it sooner or later. Hey,” he said brightly, “maybe it's a good thing you folks weren't any better than you turned out to be, huh.” “That is probably the truth,” Francisco said carefully.

Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel (tr.)✓M1.00
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

Common sense, common knowledge, bromides about keeping your mouth shut and noise. Then suddenly 'le people scared of untested experimental treatment more than flu-liek coronabairus' and 'le 2020 election was won fair and square'. aaand all respect for this human lost. You have been demoted to parasite. And you're objectively wrong. You got me listening for nearly an hour though, and you barely said anything novel. Fuck me. Fuck you, and your kind. Where is my slack? Veronicaaaa, where the fuck is my slack?!

Dan LyonskMmf0.19
Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't Being Fooled

Some interview or podcast I'd been listened had a reference to this. It turns out to be a nothingburger. Common sense, not doctoral, nor master's, nor bachelor's level of logic or though required. Obviously I was surprise. I squinted, thinking 'Why would I have added this..?' Then I saw it. Two female authors. Sheesh. The whole book, studies and works cited all heavily bias women, then children. Men get a fat fucking middle finger. They propagate bullshit, that is, falsehoods. They coddle and victimize. They used badly designed studies that would favor a battered woman syndrome narrative. And it is a narrative. Fiction. Abstract away the bias, and you get a mid layman collection of stories with some commentary. It was initally going to be between an m and an M. But it's insufferable trash. Pass.

Jennifer Freyd, Pamela Birrellmak0.42
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966

A fleeting and slightly mature whimsy. Divided into six books, parts really, the first is very quaint and charming. It functions both as page-turner, and a page-soaker. (Don't look that up, it's not been coined. It'd be the opposite something you flip through in want of more. You can soak (get it?) in each sentence or segment of the whole.) The first act happens in book two and three, with the rest covering the second and third act evenly. Endearing (Third subjective term and a synonym of the second? Yikes.) in the Richard Brautigan way. Weird? Yeah, what did you, would you expect from this bloke? It's no realism, nor Charles Dickens, whiney fucking French faggot Baudelaire or Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Dostoyevsky.
Worth saying: the audiobook is read by Will Damron nonchalantly, nigh insouciantly. The plot being can generously be described as a paragraph tops. Setting isn't used much, descriptions, observations, by either character or narrator. Short quips, condensed, unreal dialog, for sure. Passing his book, his sort of writing through flite and my TTS configuration would have less resulted in a staler, blanker, duller world. The reader uses tone, speed, accenting to (more) successfully convey seriousness, somberness, acceptance, and shrug-c'est-la-vie-ness, that I think the author is proffering with minimal wording, plot. Brautigan is less mystic, new-age, youthful, energetic than Jack Keruoac, Allen Ginsberg. Tonally they coincide.

Richard Brautigan1.00
Revenge of the Lawn

A collection of <1000-word (short-short?) stories and bits. Reads almost like stand-up. Like most collections, it's a mixed bag. Some (the longer ones) have me giggling at every sentence, some (shorter one) read like failed observational comedy. Others like actual observations, writing never fit elsewhere, plugged here. to make a buck..? Unlike any of the Beat auteurs: Keruoac, Ginsberg, this can be oignantly humorous, the author rather. Trout Fishing in American less successful. Witty wordplay, not slapstick or anything (overly) contrived. Better than nothing or immediately forgettable mediocre stuff. I'd've skipped it, were it a collection of the latter only. A daffy-miened or ⸻ person is requisite to indulge this writing style. Beat is a movement in American literature, half-way to a genre. It shouldn't be everybody's cup of tea. I read On the Road early enough to familiarize myself with the give-and-take of its superstar novel.

Richard BrautiganM✓1.00
Collected Short Stories

Better than nothing stories and some good uns by a guy whose freely accessible works I'd downloaded en masse. The very first of his I'd found boring at 06%; the second an M at 1. His stories are or were featured in short story anthologies and collections. Compared with ones variously authored, it is not as jarring going between entries. The other require a reset, a reboot. They're like consistent forced minor context switching. These all are <1000 words, they function more like resolutions or terse descriptions of third acts.
The Arcades of Allah was a great example of executing the same idea in various ways. Something I that I want to try when starting writing. To test wording, length of words and sentences and paragraphs, punctuation, positioning of the three, that is, to experiment with or find my style. So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan Mma 1 A series of reminiscences and recollection of a 12-year-old lad going about his days up to mid-teens. Each chapter of the novel begins with the words 'so the wind won't blow it all away...Dust...American...Dust'. Brautigan's style, his colorful, brusque, literalness Did you mean to separate those three qualities? But succumbed to the tempation to sound fancy to the grand total of nobody? (Nobody willing to speaking? Fucking write me a email already, for fuck's sake.).
The burger chapter was overdone the way a pre-teen children mule-headedly sticking to its unfunny⸻or funny to itself only?⸻guns. Went on and on. Similarly so did the fish and cat chapter. The following one. In sequence, they retard pace jarringly. They don't read like the silly meanderings of a child. They read those of a developmentally stunted one meanderings, contesting with itself, or 44-year-old tryharding to make ends meet. It is ~33k words, which is at least 5 too many. The exact repetitions, I get, are part of the style of a (retard) pre-teen, that he's shooting for. But past half it becomes really noticeable and really annoying. And the stylistic ones, where only content's changed aren't a breather, just a further irritation.

Richard KadreyMm1.00
Greek Lessons

(Pardon the misdirection, convolution of sentences. I'm tired. I'll rewrite this in the future. Linearity. Some day.)
A translated Korean novel, genred romance-drama. Filling in a minority quota or is it that good?⸻I ask myself. Call it a yellow flag. A red one from the author's sex. Playing, not derogatorily meant, with disabilities, communication, and hence language⸻this had potential. (Still does, just rewrite it (a few times).) I haven't the Confucian sensibilities infixed. And a quantity of subtlety will remain lost in translation until I learn Korean. Or Japanese, as written in above reviews, as there is overlap. Anecdotally (and possibly repeating myself), Chinese is either more expressive, or better lends itself to translation into English (or 'Western' languages). Preamble to me opining that either there is nothing there or that reading it in Western languages is a waste of time.
The relationship of a male purblind-going-fully-blind Ancient Greek Korean-German teacher with a female deaf-mute Korean carpenter. First person accounts of both are given, as is narration from both and and a third person. To me, all is detached from human experience. All is very Japanese (Or Korean..? I don't much about the culture-culture, save for economics and politcs (the good, bad, and ugly).), and I mean than in the most stereotypical way: as portrayed in popular, salable, digestible media.
Take out the biological malfunctions⸻you could rework it as a foreigner story, hurdling culture and language (differences). Take out the language, you have two problemed individuals making due with each other..? I write that, because when I'd quit, at 50%, there had been one (1) intentional interaction between both. And it wasn't steamy airplane bathroom sex. It was barely positive. (Up to that point at least, it) Reads like reserved and or Confucian, lukewarm chiclit: princess-y Mary Sue and feminized, hard-wording (but not assiduous), intellectual male.

Han Kangwmb0.49
Butts: A Backstory

(Pardon the misdirection, convolution of sentences. I'm tired. I'll rewrite this in the future. Linearity. Some day.)
A translated Korean novel, genred romance-drama. Filling in a minority quota or is it that good?⸻I ask myself. Call it a yellow flag. A red one from the author's sex. Playing, not derogatorily meant, with disabilities, communication, and hence language⸻this had potential. (Still does, just rewrite it (a few times).) I haven't the Confucian sensibilities infixed. And a quantity of subtlety will remain lost in translation until I learn Korean. Or Japanese, as written in above reviews, as there is overlap. Anecdotally (and possibly repeating myself), Chinese is either more expressive, or better lends itself to translation into English (or 'Western' languages). Preamble to me opining that either there is nothing there or that reading it in Western languages is a waste of time.
The relationship of a male purblind-going-fully-blind Ancient Greek Korean-German teacher with a female deaf-mute Korean carpenter. First person accounts of both are given, as is narration from both and and a third person. To me, all is detached from human experience. All is very Japanese (Or Korean..? I don't much about the culture-culture, save for economics and politcs (the good, bad, and ugly).), and I mean than in the most stereotypical way: as portrayed in popular, salable, digestible media.
Take out the biological malfunctions⸻you could rework it as a foreigner story, hurdling culture and language (differences). Take out the language, you have two problemed individuals making due with each other..? I write that, because when I'd quit, at 50%, there had been one (1) intentional interaction between both. And it wasn't steamy airplane bathroom sex. It was barely positive. (Up to that point at least, it) Reads like reserved and or Confucian, lukewarm chiclit: princess-y Mary Sue and feminized, hard-wording (but not assiduous), intellectual male.

Heather Radke♀gmk0.26
Abortion Arcade

A collection of 3 novella-novelettes and a few short stories. I'd search for 'Abortion' in my booklog and came upon this. I'd added the dude's entire freely and illegally available bibliography, so something must've'n prompted me. I gave it a try. One of the bizarro or splatterpunk anthos must've mentioned him. Anyway, I had a few solid laughs. He used mostly short dialog, that is, 1-sentence-long messages. A sour thumb, too noticeable. Also a bitch to scroll through. Made characters a shallow or dumbed down. Another thing instantly noticeable is the high amount of chapterization, sectioning, delimiting. The longest, a 1.4e4-word story, had ~10 partitions. None were needed. The titles weren't funny compared to the writing. There was no recapitulation, no pacing acceleration and deceleration around their termini. That said, for shorties, they function like comedy episodes: they play their bits and leave stage without dragging. Worth it.

Cameron PierceM✓1.00
The Bighead

I start White Trash Gothic, Edward Lee's 2022 novel, and notice an author notice in the file. Here paraphrased: 'Sorry for long wait, I'm an old fart and can't be too deadbeat. I intend this to be a the first of a series. It should read fine as a standalone novel'⸻, Don't fucking all firsts do that? And literally: 'but it might be better enjoyed if you first read my novels THE BIGHEAD and MINOTAURESS.' Okay, I'll read those. But only because I love you so much, my honey schnookums. Brain Cheese Buffet by the same had a story titled Mr. Torso. Same 'vibes', only starring more characters, having simultaneous stories (4⸺6 arcs or subplots), and 13 times the words. Raunchy and vocabulant Stop pushing that word! and complete (as in no stone unturned plot- or background- or even context-wise) as always. Hick cant and enunciation transcribed. Pullin' enn in-teller-jible Tu-rain-spottin' ain't no blammed sample task, no sir! Nice settings, atmosphere and tone and intentions always clear. Aaaand sex and violence and crime and vice and virture and moral relativism and zeoltry and bigotry. The story? That epilogue? I love it. I don't want to at all spoil any one bit. Just real nice.

Edward Lee✔✓1.00
Ripe

I wanted an easy read. I gave a woman with a non-agenda novel a chance. The right after the best novel of the year so far. What do I get? TREYSH.
Sarah hasn't no fucking clue how the world works. And she's not consistent, or is taking nonsense. I've barely done 10% and each paragraph contains glaring mistakes. Take

But if the melancholy gets too great, if it rises up and overtakes me, the black hole swells, a rotating mass that blocks out the world. It smells sweet and metallic, like what astronauts report when they describe the smell of outer space: notes of welded silver, raspberries, burned meat.

Burnt would mean Maillard reaction: complicated, bready, rich, or just savory. Not sweet, not metallic. 'Sweet' is a taste not a fragrant; raspberries smell fruity not sweet. Sugar, nor any other carbohydrate has a smell perceivable by humans, not when pure. There is no sweet olfactory family, old or new. I know this before looking up the article for the purpose of not confusing smoothbrains who can't look up unknown, itching to write it off as bad writing or a mistake. First time I heard of welding silver. Not saying it's not a thing. Also, it doesn't have a smell. Flux I can get. Silver? Nah. This thing occurs throughout: sense/perceptions are convoluted, impossibilies are mentioned, inconsistencies abound, bits of science trivia are given and used as material of the main's thinking about the world despite her being a standard lowly bint. The discrepancies with the physical world I live in are too many to bear. Main is a hypocritical drug addict behaving contradictorily and or irrationally. World is modern-day Silicon Valley corporate hell. There is nothing alluring here. 'Silver-welded raspberry black hole' could at best be desert dish at molecular gastronomy snob eatery, but not something you be writing seriously about.

Sarah Rose Etterwm0.10
The Resort

I wanted an easy read. I gave a woman with a non-agenda novel a chance. The right after the best novel of the year so far. What do I get? TREYSH.
Sarah hasn't no fucking clue how the world works. And she's not consistent, or is taking nonsense. I've barely done 10% and each paragraph contains glaring mistakes. Take

But if the melancholy gets too great, if it rises up and overtakes me, the black hole swells, a rotating mass that blocks out the world. It smells sweet and metallic, like what astronauts report when they describe the smell of outer space: notes of welded silver, raspberries, burned meat.

Burnt would mean Maillard reaction: complicated, bready, rich, or just savory. Not sweet, not metallic. 'Sweet' is a taste not a fragrant; raspberries smell fruity not sweet. Sugar, nor any other carbohydrate has a smell perceivable by humans, not when pure. There is no sweet olfactory family, old or new. I know this before looking up the article for the purpose of not confusing smoothbrains who can't look up unknown, itching to write it off as bad writing or a mistake. First time I heard of welding silver. Not saying it's not a thing. Also, it doesn't have a smell. Flux I can get. Silver? Nah. This thing occurs throughout: sense/perceptions are convoluted, impossibilies are mentioned, inconsistencies abound, bits of science trivia are given and used as material of the main's thinking about the world despite her being a standard lowly bint. The discrepancies with the physical world I live in are too many to bear. Main is a hypocritical drug addict behaving contradictorily and or irrationally. World is modern-day Silicon Valley corporate hell. There is nothing alluring here. 'Silver-welded raspberry black hole' could at best be desert dish at molecular gastronomy snob eatery, but not something you be writing seriously about.

Sarah Goodwinam0.26
Counterweight

Another Korean translate. Male, from the writing style and content, his other works support this. A science fiction, industrial-corporate espionage thriller thing. Occurs in a future Earth, when sky elevators are not only economically feasible but profitable too. Hard scifi this ain't, but what there is neither Asimov, nor Clark. Nanobots, brainworms, high-tec cybernetic surgertics and enhancements, Zuck's lewdest dreams, asteroid mining, space colonisation, and so on are a thing, yet people still use telephones and use flashlight 'apps'? Nigga, you serious? No new technologies or concepts employed herein comparing to the corpus of existing science fiction literature. That of early to mid 20. century for certain. This I can guarantee with the little reading in the genre that I've had. I've not read spy stuff to comment. It does bundle a few together with the thriller, grand plot keeping loose bits together. Neither harmonious, nor discordant. Common knowledge of Korean business, economics, and politics helps. Asianisms, Confucianisms aren't much found. Possibly since it's supposed to be Futurama grandpa voice da fjuchurrrr The plot is decent, but there is something about the writing that bugs me. A day later, and I'm still half-empty-handed. This these world, society, chaebols/companies, technologies function isn't explicated, no. Our nameless protagonist functions more as a narrator. A highly convenient expositionist-infodumper, but never at length. I began writing this at 30%; presently I'm at 69%. This is one of them stories wholly dependent on diegesis: the story could be 10⸺100-fold concentrated and you'd get the same. Because the tension over time/story curve is maintained by what is revealed. Narrator, that is, the writer doesn't want to spoil to whole, so he arranges a procession of crumbs interspersed with morsels leading to the main loaf. I hate these kinds of stories, the Sherlock Holmses (as written by A.C. Doyle) or Agatha Christie kind. Wherein crucial information is brought to reader's attention only when conventient. Content-wise at least, this is how a police-procedural differs from a detective novel. Also, there is an middle-school, anime either smugness or subdued-ness (superdudeness, lmao) to many of the characters. Some characters possess immense (anime-level) power, but irrelevants and extras are too frequently mentioned and used, showing a disparity, an uncredible gaping maw of imbalance.
Better than airport but better exist at M level.

Djuna, Anton Hur (tr.)mMw1.00
Despair

One of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered Lolita's author, not its and X's, Y's, and Z's. He'd done a major revision, he was so dissatisfied with it, many years later. Having read it, I'd've shoved in an editor beside screening (reading?) tests. Here, the protagonist is the narrator. He tries to con major, minor, and supernumerary cast. He is full of air, which is hot. Half or more of the first act, say, 10⸺15% the whole, he is the humorous, playful or teasing, unreliable narrator. Second is about right, although he's now reliable and slightly annoying, predictable. Third is fraught with out of character emotional discharge, and suffers protraction: epilogue of 2-ish chapters than paragraphs. He is sharp, or rather, can succeed in persuading others of his keenness, when not attempting to pull the wool over somebody's eyes. That is, when acting in good-faith. He is giddy, cannot contain himself when trying to deceive others, increasingly lying, joking, quoting, aphorizing. Second half need revision: less childish main, more observations, factuals, more human or 'normal' behavior. The devilishness isn't well conveyed, and his character pancaked to an either-or.
I've passed Zwickau by train.

Vladimir Nabokov✓M1.00
Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

One of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered Lolita's author, not its and X's, Y's, and Z's. He'd done a major revision, he was so dissatisfied with it, many years later. Having read it, I'd've shoved in an editor beside screening (reading?) tests. Here, the protagonist is the narrator. He tries to con major, minor, and supernumerary cast. He is full of air, which is hot. Half or more of the first act, say, 10⸺15% the whole, he is the humorous, playful or teasing, unreliable narrator. Second is about right, although he's now reliable and slightly annoying, predictable. Third is fraught with out of character emotional discharge, and suffers protraction: epilogue of 2-ish chapters than paragraphs. He is sharp, or rather, can succeed in persuading others of his keenness, when not attempting to pull the wool over somebody's eyes. That is, when acting in good-faith. He is giddy, cannot contain himself when trying to deceive others, increasingly lying, joking, quoting, aphorizing. Second half need revision: less childish main, more observations, factuals, more human or 'normal' behavior. The devilishness isn't well conveyed, and his character pancaked to an either-or.
I've passed Zwickau by train.

Guillaume CoudrayKm1.00
The Paleblood Hunt

One of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered Lolita's author, not its and X's, Y's, and Z's. He'd done a major revision, he was so dissatisfied with it, many years later. Having read it, I'd've shoved in an editor beside screening (reading?) tests. Here, the protagonist is the narrator. He tries to con major, minor, and supernumerary cast. He is full of air, which is hot. Half or more of the first act, say, 10⸺15% the whole, he is the humorous, playful or teasing, unreliable narrator. Second is about right, although he's now reliable and slightly annoying, predictable. Third is fraught with out of character emotional discharge, and suffers protraction: epilogue of 2-ish chapters than paragraphs. He is sharp, or rather, can succeed in persuading others of his keenness, when not attempting to pull the wool over somebody's eyes. That is, when acting in good-faith. He is giddy, cannot contain himself when trying to deceive others, increasingly lying, joking, quoting, aphorizing. Second half need revision: less childish main, more observations, factuals, more human or 'normal' behavior. The devilishness isn't well conveyed, and his character pancaked to an either-or.
I've passed Zwickau by train.

Redgravemk0.11
The Anarchist Handbook

One of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered Lolita's author, not its and X's, Y's, and Z's. He'd done a major revision, he was so dissatisfied with it, many years later. Having read it, I'd've shoved in an editor beside screening (reading?) tests. Here, the protagonist is the narrator. He tries to con major, minor, and supernumerary cast. He is full of air, which is hot. Half or more of the first act, say, 10⸺15% the whole, he is the humorous, playful or teasing, unreliable narrator. Second is about right, although he's now reliable and slightly annoying, predictable. Third is fraught with out of character emotional discharge, and suffers protraction: epilogue of 2-ish chapters than paragraphs. He is sharp, or rather, can succeed in persuading others of his keenness, when not attempting to pull the wool over somebody's eyes. That is, when acting in good-faith. He is giddy, cannot contain himself when trying to deceive others, increasingly lying, joking, quoting, aphorizing. Second half need revision: less childish main, more observations, factuals, more human or 'normal' behavior. The devilishness isn't well conveyed, and his character pancaked to an either-or.
I've passed Zwickau by train.

V.A., Michael Malice (ed.)Mak0.48
The Dutch House

Finalist for 2020's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Agenda'd judges and referees, or shit vintage? Occuring in the past and present, an obviously female-wrtten boy and female-written girl, brother and sister in protagonism try to remedy, reconcile, revenge the past..? I'm a quarter in. The focus is pogoing from contrived or trivial familial drama to the house, with former ekeing out. Two thirds in, and the author still hasn't decided which rack to behat. And I doubt she will til the end. Religion and spirituality? And or morality? Or adolescent trauma? Or loss of a parent? Or of both? Or dependence and co-dependence? While not horrible, the book is diminished by its badly written male characters (all female) and strewn, ramshackle focus. Not too cohesive world either. The behavior of no one character, save Andrea, is reasonable. Pitiful and or pathetic, if this is the best women can do in 2020. I can't be invested in this, I'm dropping it for the above reasons.

Ann PratchettMm0.64
The Resort

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Bentley Littlem0.83
Dutch Uncle

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Peter PaviaM1.00
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Anna Funderma0.87
The Law of Retaliation

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon Athanm1.00
Doom Guy: Life in First Person

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

John RomeroMmk1.00
Masters of Doom

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

David KushnerKm0.25
The Little Book of Vaginas

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Anna Lou WalkerGc♀f0.21
The Book of Tea

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Kazuo OkakuraWc0.19
The Heartless Heart-Ripper: 1 - The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon AthanmM1.00
The Heartless Heart-Ripper: 2 - A Fistful of Guts

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon Athanmp0.45
The Black Lake: Tales of Melancholic Horror

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon Athanm0.87
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

William Poundstonekmw0.23
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Ilham TohtiB0.16
Scattershot

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon AthanMa1.00
The Last Lesson

'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'.

Jon AthanmM1.00
Venus and Her Thugs

Odd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of Fifteen Weird Tales. libgen hasn't any other titles for this author; the same with an 's' appendix is a painter; neither wikipedia, nor goodreads pages jump out in duckduckgo. Foregone conclusion: JAN had a few odd stories, perhaps insufficient normal quality ones. This was published in glances forematter 2017, and is their first and last. Bad title. You know what? Short story collections, heck, no anthology should be named. These cohere by how they differ from others' storys and each other. Their 'weirdness' is their tone, content, quality disparateness. I'd've liked to know more about the author and or read more them. Through extension, then much polish could've'n great, an M. As is, a too rough gem.

J.A. Nichollm?b0.55
Gun, with Occasional Music

Odd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of Fifteen Weird Tales. libgen hasn't any other titles for this author; the same with an 's' appendix is a painter; neither wikipedia, nor goodreads pages jump out in duckduckgo. Foregone conclusion: JAN had a few odd stories, perhaps insufficient normal quality ones. This was published in glances forematter 2017, and is their first and last. Bad title. You know what? Short story collections, heck, no anthology should be named. These cohere by how they differ from others' storys and each other. Their 'weirdness' is their tone, content, quality disparateness. I'd've liked to know more about the author and or read more them. Through extension, then much polish could've'n great, an M. As is, a too rough gem.

Jonathan Lethem1.00
Shared by Two

Odd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of Fifteen Weird Tales. libgen hasn't any other titles for this author; the same with an 's' appendix is a painter; neither wikipedia, nor goodreads pages jump out in duckduckgo. Foregone conclusion: JAN had a few odd stories, perhaps insufficient normal quality ones. This was published in glances forematter 2017, and is their first and last. Bad title. You know what? Short story collections, heck, no anthology should be named. These cohere by how they differ from others' storys and each other. Their 'weirdness' is their tone, content, quality disparateness. I'd've liked to know more about the author and or read more them. Through extension, then much polish could've'n great, an M. As is, a too rough gem.

Jon AthanM1.00
Venus Is a Man's World

Odd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of Fifteen Weird Tales. libgen hasn't any other titles for this author; the same with an 's' appendix is a painter; neither wikipedia, nor goodreads pages jump out in duckduckgo. Foregone conclusion: JAN had a few odd stories, perhaps insufficient normal quality ones. This was published in glances forematter 2017, and is their first and last. Bad title. You know what? Short story collections, heck, no anthology should be named. These cohere by how they differ from others' storys and each other. Their 'weirdness' is their tone, content, quality disparateness. I'd've liked to know more about the author and or read more them. Through extension, then much polish could've'n great, an M. As is, a too rough gem.

William Tenn?m1.00
Venus in Furs

Not overly long, neither convoluted or complicated. The first fifth of this translation (and edition?) is a foreword by a professor of psychology. He glides over his field, its history, the title, its history, surrounding and similar literature, their history, providing mostly unnecessary context. The dude, a handsome moustachioed Austrian, contemporane-d (coining this; backformation from adjective) the infamous Oscar Wilde. Didn't have his putative writing talent. Or much of his own. (That or Joachim really liked the word 'dilettante'.) Would work better as a screenplay, a drama. A curio, no literary masterwork. Points at, reminds of the inconsistency, depravity or perversion of the human psyche and at/of sexual selection in human civilization (and its trappings). Poignant concluding paragraph on women, a neater recast of apex's Venus' statement-tirade-paragraph. Also, very not on the nose: “But what about the moral?” I asked⸻Aesop, an uneducated Phyrgian slave from 2500 years ago, unburdened by any written literaty tradition, nor by education, did morals better than this.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Joachim Neugroschel (tr.)M?1.00
Gods of Venus

So you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence.

Richard S. ShaverW0.07
The Centre

So you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence.

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqiagm0.06
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

So you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence.

Holly Jacksonb0.08
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad

Dummies Guide to in that surface information and arguments about Islam and Jihad are provided. Enough, mind you, to disprove it, many time over. But not enough, if such a thing is possible (it is? thinking about Maajid Nawaz). The previous on topic monograph,

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Dummies Guide to in that surface information and arguments about Islam and Jihad are provided. Enough, mind you, to disprove it, many time over. But not enough, if such a thing is possible (it is? thinking about Maajid Nawaz). The previous on topic monograph,

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Two novelettes by the CitR guy. No, not the sitar guy (recalling some Indian Tool and djent covers, 1⸺2-piece bands doing funky metal, at least back in the last 2010s, ah to be old and to have wasted your one fucking youth. tsik. tisk. tisk.), nor the cider one (apple cider, or is it applejack, is/was nice; reminds of how I most really like a strong apple vinegar). I'd trying reading this waiting once, waiting at the doctor's, and once more yesterday, a season later. I'd been at 5⸺10%, can't recall. But I'd immediately refelt the initial strangeness. I've read nothing else by JDS other than TCitR 20 odd times. It don't read like 'im. If he does have a style, and most if not all author do and althrough they progress, there be no jumps. Different how? I can't recall the full thing, of course, but it was a family or more communal affair. No introduction, I'm supposed to immediately keep track of main and his sibs' wants, states, past and present. Was roughshod sans need. Not a 'Another air raid, brother dearest? Oh, la-dee-fucking-da. Hope the ratoes don't eat me toast while we're in the bunker. Tell Timmy that Tammy built the thingamajig, but she used all the nails. Also we're out of jam again, blimey.'. Subversion could work to shock, would have better worked. I don't know what he was going for, what was going on. Pay-up-front or it-gets-good-toward-the-end things I'd argue aren't worth it or are examples of bad distribution or structure. Maybe years later I'll give it another spin. All I'd gotten now was strange, or just unusual and (me-)unsettling writing.

J.D. Salingerbm0.10
The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart

Hey, let's talk about one of the major 2010s and -20s' Zeitgeist's problems, loneliness in the most bland, corporately safe, leftist, fraudulent way! Fuck me, talk about missing all the points, referenceing and quoting no-thing. I can hear the frantic soy handwaving towards bad studies and corrupt scholarship. Fucking women. Fucking always. In the 10% of the book, the one thing that at this point is has been a truism for nearly a decade, paraphrased is: 'social media and or internet over-use bad'. No shit, Sherlock.

Noreena Hertzfgw0.10
Nausea

The foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment.

Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected (Melancholia) titles. That's the gist. Second act is a slog. 'First act is a slog' is what I'd've written, were it not so. There is a pay-off, if the reader isn't worn down. I've been reading this for 4⸺5 days now. It is such a chore. Pacing jitter is high, even for a diary (too many (t)weens' ones I've seen on neocities). It's 1⸺5-short-sentence paragraphs adjacent a behemoth of non to anything really, diatribe, fever dreams or details, information proving a needless point.

Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends.

The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck The Rebel others categorize as⸻, this goes from nowhere1 to nowhere2. Without foreword or prior knowledge of existentialism, aburdism, any philosophy, or either writer, it'd be the more or less the same, only yours two nowheres would be even less informative, distinct. Cheaply, I could write this off as 'another of 'em stupid, childish Marxists' rambling'. But this is his best work. This a somebody, who's written a few plays, and I'd bet some are still performed. So pacing he'd've learned eventually. So for this not to warrant a fix-up edition would mean either all this was intentional..? Or he didn't want to. Most spoken of in foreword is easily missed. If you do a fast or unconcentrated reading, you'll miss it. To end this rambling, because I surely don't want to have to write it better be be kept to my own standards, by people who don't exist⸻this is a young, man's view of the world. Before one's first turning, before settling, before the cope. It's unrefined, vague or or mis- or undirected, yet strong or zealous, but wrongly so.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (tr.)M✓1.00
Contagion

The foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment.

Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected (Melancholia) titles. That's the gist. Second act is a slog. 'First act is a slog' is what I'd've written, were it not so. There is a pay-off, if the reader isn't worn down. I've been reading this for 4⸺5 days now. It is such a chore. Pacing jitter is high, even for a diary (too many (t)weens' ones I've seen on neocities). It's 1⸺5-short-sentence paragraphs adjacent a behemoth of non to anything really, diatribe, fever dreams or details, information proving a needless point.

Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends.

The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck The Rebel others categorize as⸻, this goes from nowhere1 to nowhere2. Without foreword or prior knowledge of existentialism, aburdism, any philosophy, or either writer, it'd be the more or less the same, only yours two nowheres would be even less informative, distinct. Cheaply, I could write this off as 'another of 'em stupid, childish Marxists' rambling'. But this is his best work. This a somebody, who's written a few plays, and I'd bet some are still performed. So pacing he'd've learned eventually. So for this not to warrant a fix-up edition would mean either all this was intentional..? Or he didn't want to. Most spoken of in foreword is easily missed. If you do a fast or unconcentrated reading, you'll miss it. To end this rambling, because I surely don't want to have to write it better be be kept to my own standards, by people who don't exist⸻this is a young, man's view of the world. Before one's first turning, before settling, before the cope. It's unrefined, vague or or mis- or undirected, yet strong or zealous, but wrongly so.

Erin BowmanW0.03
How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident Communication in Every Situation

The foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment.

Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected (Melancholia) titles. That's the gist. Second act is a slog. 'First act is a slog' is what I'd've written, were it not so. There is a pay-off, if the reader isn't worn down. I've been reading this for 4⸺5 days now. It is such a chore. Pacing jitter is high, even for a diary (too many (t)weens' ones I've seen on neocities). It's 1⸺5-short-sentence paragraphs adjacent a behemoth of non to anything really, diatribe, fever dreams or details, information proving a needless point.

Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends.

The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck The Rebel others categorize as⸻, this goes from nowhere1 to nowhere2. Without foreword or prior knowledge of existentialism, aburdism, any philosophy, or either writer, it'd be the more or less the same, only yours two nowheres would be even less informative, distinct. Cheaply, I could write this off as 'another of 'em stupid, childish Marxists' rambling'. But this is his best work. This a somebody, who's written a few plays, and I'd bet some are still performed. So pacing he'd've learned eventually. So for this not to warrant a fix-up edition would mean either all this was intentional..? Or he didn't want to. Most spoken of in foreword is easily missed. If you do a fast or unconcentrated reading, you'll miss it. To end this rambling, because I surely don't want to have to write it better be be kept to my own standards, by people who don't exist⸻this is a young, man's view of the world. Before one's first turning, before settling, before the cope. It's unrefined, vague or or mis- or undirected, yet strong or zealous, but wrongly so.

Mark RhodesKm1.00
A Life in the Cinema

For a SSC, very nice. That it be published by ENCYCLOPOCALYPSE Publications gives it a fighting chance against the rest trash seeing the light of day. But also slashes the length by 2 or 3, in addition to almost often vouching for text non-availability (for piracy). It's rare to find nice stories. It really is. H says, not wanting to quickly invest and divest in characters and worlds. Good writing all around, quotable too, and I don't mean only the visceral plot parts.

And Rosenberg doens't give a shit about relationships⸻he's a businessman, right? He jerks my dick and I jerk his, and we cum dollars.
...(or)
I've been blown by the ghost of a monster baby!

Mick Garris✓M1.20
The Gods of Atheism

You're in for a treat when Catholic, of all denominations of Christi-fucky-anity does anything. Let alone write a book or attempt to conjure a thought. All stereotypes down to a T? Check. Incapable of thought? Check. Dogmatic? Check. Fucker even uses his 'title' of 'father'. Fucking Ha! Fuck all organized and or centralized religion. Preamble over.
470 pages of try-hard-ery, published 1971. Now then, my preamble is over.

Atheists, like saints, are made not born.

Skipping the foreword, the introduction starts off with something that one can argue about. Much. Firstly, what the fuck is a saint? Within different denominations or sects and religions difference abides. They are not made, that is, manufactured, but proclaimed. And atheists are made in the same sense that babies are, that is, it is the default, the default state, verb. Just like Christians, Muslim, Jews and so on are not born but are introduced into the culture, faith, movement with time and effort, so too are they not born. One is born into such and such a family or tradition, but that is different from being created one. If a child grows within a X society, the path of least resistance is its acceptance. However, humans as animals, rather than a, any, god's or gods', lowercase, creatures are by default faithless, creedless. So from the very start of the book, he's hammering his objectively wrong worldview onto readers. It's like talking to⸻, or more correctly being talked to from, since this is strictly one-directional communication, a zealot. They will at every opportunity, however sparingly overlapping with their religion, inject their virus. From wiktionary, the etymology of the word pertaining to the whole book:
From New Latin prōpāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē, 'congregation for propagating the faith', a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions.
The rest of the introduction hangs on false premises. Which would lead me to conclude that faulty logic and informal fallacies will pervade this text. I honestly wasn't expected blindness to his own bias. Let's read on and see how right I am again...

The first paragraph of the first chapter of the part presents a major crutch-argument. That 'a-theism' is the or a negation or rejection of a god, his god, the Ggod. This again presumes, presupposes an initial that is never proven. One, you're wrong, the prefix denotes an absense. Similarly, so-called religious agnostics could be called do-not-knowers, rather than knowledge-rejecters. Closely related (since I must bind my shit writing somehow) is the false premise upon which every monolithic religion rests. Namely, why is the religion or any one part of it true⸻because the text says so. Why is the text true⸻because I believe so. More or less. A circuitous chain, a vicious cycle. A non-dispassionate, emotional tirade of argumentation falling apart upon lightest chip at every shoddy chink in its scrofulous armor. (That's what followed from him and me respectively.) Hammered away at by legion over centuries. Not an author over some days, weeks, even months or handful years, but centuries. The name is given to them by theists, not themselves or other (normal) people. One is merely born, one doen't narrate or reminisce about one's birth using the words 'the filthy atheist/non-believe/heretic/...'. Neither does one think of oneself in those terms. Things are not described by what they are not, because that is an endless. That argument was well made by James A. Lindsay in Everybody Is Wrong About God. I believe one of few first chapters was devoted to the naming of normal people. Additionally, Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. If you grow up in a forest, outside of society, you are not any of non-practicing, non-believing non-Christian just like I'm not an non-invisible, non-flying, non-pink non-extraterrestrial. Who decides what the cateogies are? Slims at least get this right, calling every not nearly perfect (in their eyes only) Muslim an infidel or an apostate. No, you are a person. One is a person first. Period.
Your failure to accept that is your failing, one rooted in dogma, non-rigorous, slippery, rascal-y, handwavy 'reasoning'. The argument was therein made better than I can repeat. And this is a battle long ago won. (Not sufficiently widely won, but enough so to have been replaced by globohomo, Marxist gods.)

Chapter 3 is on Nietzsche. Either this man has never read him or even snippets of the text, or it doesn't a very low-effort take. N. was observing not proclamating. He wasn't ushering in Übermenschen. No religion, especially the Abrahamic ones, has any semblance of a chance of a fluff of a float of fleeting ephemeral whisper to stand on. The last 200 years, of the late HRE was barely religious. After the Inquisition and the inefficient rape and colonization of the Americas by the Spanish, it barely played a role on the world stage. Sure, some minor genocide occured in Africa, but nothing like ransacking, pillaging, murdering, christening thousands of square kilometers of land. He looks to supporting evidence rather than searching of unsupporting of his own (think theory falsification, black swans à la Popperianism). Continues tackling Nietsche, missing the point. Missing the point with National Socialism too. Talks of a Jesus as if he was there with him; L-M-F-A-O:

The petulant childishness of en-throning man in the place of his dethroned God. The shallow trick of blaming the existence of evil on Socrates, St. Paul and the Christians is too absurd to merit serious refutation. Nietzsche does not write with historical accuracy. His doctrine that Christianity began as a Jewish conspiracy is an example of how he often substituted creative writing for historical scholarship.

Next chaper's about Marx. A Jew, and a very shit human being altogether. It would seem that 'the gods of atheism' for the author are substitutions. He's grasping what for they are, since neither Nietzsche nor Marx used neither theological, monotheistic, nor religious frameworks for their theses. They are better described, explained, predicted otherwise. And he's again missing the point and creating a void he pours his god into, which would seem to be the leitmotif for the whole. Who's next Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins?
I can't stand this shit anymore, and I don't see why I should. Literally nothing new argument-wise. The rest won't be, ain't worth it.

Vincent MiceliGfw0.11
Whalefall

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

Forty Days Without Shadow

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

Das Reich

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

I really like Blood Sugar by this author, a re-read-worthy. I was excited to see something new from him. It was written very obviously during the government-issued and -promoted hysteria around SARS-CoV2. It is about a 17-year-old and his relationship with his father, and either's with the sea, ocean really, and diving. I liked it. Reminds of

ma0.62
Bad Kids

This is a best-selling author of crime fiction. Bad Kids has been adapted into one of China's highest-rated online TV shows of all time, with over five billion topic posts on Weibo.?! Fuck me, if so. And I haven't had sex a while, so you know I'm right. It is so simplistic in plot, it's as if it were written for primary- and middle-schoolers. Or for directly TV with the book an artifact the process? (I want my genitive case!). The initial hook should have been a blurb or a foreward paragraph rather than a chapter. Because diegetic flashbacks to 2 odd decades back involving exclusively whiney, petulant, bullying, cringey, milksop children has the exact opposite effect. Of dulling.

Zijin Chenmwab0.11
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

This is a best-selling author of crime fiction. Bad Kids has been adapted into one of China's highest-rated online TV shows of all time, with over five billion topic posts on Weibo.?! Fuck me, if so. And I haven't had sex a while, so you know I'm right. It is so simplistic in plot, it's as if it were written for primary- and middle-schoolers. Or for directly TV with the book an artifact the process? (I want my genitive case!). The initial hook should have been a blurb or a foreward paragraph rather than a chapter. Because diegetic flashbacks to 2 odd decades back involving exclusively whiney, petulant, bullying, cringey, milksop children has the exact opposite effect. Of dulling.

Witold Szabłowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (tr.)mM1.00
The Taste of Blood

This is a best-selling author of crime fiction. Bad Kids has been adapted into one of China's highest-rated online TV shows of all time, with over five billion topic posts on Weibo.?! Fuck me, if so. And I haven't had sex a while, so you know I'm right. It is so simplistic in plot, it's as if it were written for primary- and middle-schoolers. Or for directly TV with the book an artifact the process? (I want my genitive case!). The initial hook should have been a blurb or a foreward paragraph rather than a chapter. Because diegetic flashbacks to 2 odd decades back involving exclusively whiney, petulant, bullying, cringey, milksop children has the exact opposite effect. Of dulling.

Jon AthanMm1.15
Department Q: 9 - The Shadow Murders

This is a best-selling author of crime fiction. Bad Kids has been adapted into one of China's highest-rated online TV shows of all time, with over five billion topic posts on Weibo.?! Fuck me, if so. And I haven't had sex a while, so you know I'm right. It is so simplistic in plot, it's as if it were written for primary- and middle-schoolers. Or for directly TV with the book an artifact the process? (I want my genitive case!). The initial hook should have been a blurb or a foreward paragraph rather than a chapter. Because diegetic flashbacks to 2 odd decades back involving exclusively whiney, petulant, bullying, cringey, milksop children has the exact opposite effect. Of dulling.

Jussi Adler-Olsenm0.13
The Minotauress

The author tied this in with The Bighead, White Trash Gothic, and Mr Torso (SS). They all take place in the same region, and share a few characters, but it's no series, focusing on 1⸺2 characters. Reading them sequentially doesn't unveil the authors buried treasuries, plot points. It instead fills in, paints in the surrounding world⸻Oh, you mean that town where that thing happen?! Let's go one over, I don't wanna risk it. Getting the jeepers creepers just considering it!. At 6.9e4 words, this is of his shorter novels. For some reason, my file had this and The Horn-Cranker concatenated, so when it'd ended, I'd been at ~60%, expecting more. The two major hicks from the first novel mentioned, saw characterization, fleshing out. Interestingly, the author took part, not as a self-insert, but as himself⸻the Writer, throwing jabs at himself, all in good fun, and laying foundations for the second in addition to a follow-up (don't know whether yet written, whether both combined). Despite the, in my case, deceptive word count, the ending was hurried as if. Like, within a few pages, say, 5e3 words, all loose ends were tied sawn off or burnt. The apex was short-lived and not as threatening for the protagonists as in others of his. It felt off with how much attention to detail he spends ot literally everything. Very enjoyable, quoteable, laughable.

Edward Lee1.00
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

On the one hand, this is written by a broad and deep thinker. On the other, it's very lay-oriented, seems overly restrained, repetitive and unnecessarily expounding. More ground could have been cover, deeper could've'n dug. Not as superficial as the : A Very Short Introduction series, but that's no stardard to strive towards.

Benoit MandelbrotMm1.00
Tales of Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier Spirit

On the one hand, this is written by a broad and deep thinker. On the other, it's very lay-oriented, seems overly restrained, repetitive and unnecessarily expounding. More ground could have been cover, deeper could've'n dug. Not as superficial as the : A Very Short Introduction series, but that's no stardard to strive towards.

V.A., Lamar Underwood (ed.)m1.00
Woom

I'd tried the author's Ghost, first in a Ghostlands series. With 6% and a 'w', and close to no recollection, other than carnival or themepark? Or am I mistaking it with the imagery from Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage? The same's Suicide Club I still want to read, but couldn't find a free copy during my short 'suicide club'-titled book binge.
This is a collection of short stories edited to fit shallow overarching premise and setting. Not le edgy extreme gore, torture, sex⸻ain't no Matt Shaw⸻, but it's not deep. The narrator-protagonist is both shallow, as in unexplored, and contradicting, as in 'this shit you're writing don't fit (the previous shit), nigga'. I enjoy the subject matter, but not its unrefined state. It reads much like a second draft. Not a final.

One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in The Tribe (2014). Something about gynacology, obstetrics, and (surgical?) dentistry shakes or unnerves me. I don't get queasy, just uneasy. Maybe I've (long) lost my edge from my youth. Yes, you have, you dumb fuck. To me, the worth part of the cartel's beheadings, scalpings, skinnings, flayings is that they're done on tiles. Most of white at that. Everything is muted, they, being Mesoamerican, mute and ruddy starkly spill onto the tiles. Anyway, props for putting me off for a bit. The movie did it better, the 14⸺16-year-old lass shuddering upon insertion of a subordinate yet neither bespoke nor dedicated, foreign, metal object into her vagina. To kill, mash, and scrape away a fleshy growth. A growing flesh.
Yeah, I've gone soft. Old age has killed me. I kill my life. Fuck me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite?

Duncan RalstonMm1.00
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

I'd tried the author's Ghost, first in a Ghostlands series. With 6% and a 'w', and close to no recollection, other than carnival or themepark? Or am I mistaking it with the imagery from Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage? The same's Suicide Club I still want to read, but couldn't find a free copy during my short 'suicide club'-titled book binge.
This is a collection of short stories edited to fit shallow overarching premise and setting. Not le edgy extreme gore, torture, sex⸻ain't no Matt Shaw⸻, but it's not deep. The narrator-protagonist is both shallow, as in unexplored, and contradicting, as in 'this shit you're writing don't fit (the previous shit), nigga'. I enjoy the subject matter, but not its unrefined state. It reads much like a second draft. Not a final.

One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in The Tribe (2014). Something about gynacology, obstetrics, and (surgical?) dentistry shakes or unnerves me. I don't get queasy, just uneasy. Maybe I've (long) lost my edge from my youth. Yes, you have, you dumb fuck. To me, the worth part of the cartel's beheadings, scalpings, skinnings, flayings is that they're done on tiles. Most of white at that. Everything is muted, they, being Mesoamerican, mute and ruddy starkly spill onto the tiles. Anyway, props for putting me off for a bit. The movie did it better, the 14⸺16-year-old lass shuddering upon insertion of a subordinate yet neither bespoke nor dedicated, foreign, metal object into her vagina. To kill, mash, and scrape away a fleshy growth. A growing flesh.
Yeah, I've gone soft. Old age has killed me. I kill my life. Fuck me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite?

Anthony Bourdainmak0.81
Ghostland: 1 - Ghost

I'd tried the author's Ghost, first in a Ghostlands series. With 6% and a 'w', and close to no recollection, other than carnival or themepark? Or am I mistaking it with the imagery from Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage? The same's Suicide Club I still want to read, but couldn't find a free copy during my short 'suicide club'-titled book binge.
This is a collection of short stories edited to fit shallow overarching premise and setting. Not le edgy extreme gore, torture, sex⸻ain't no Matt Shaw⸻, but it's not deep. The narrator-protagonist is both shallow, as in unexplored, and contradicting, as in 'this shit you're writing don't fit (the previous shit), nigga'. I enjoy the subject matter, but not its unrefined state. It reads much like a second draft. Not a final.

One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in The Tribe (2014). Something about gynacology, obstetrics, and (surgical?) dentistry shakes or unnerves me. I don't get queasy, just uneasy. Maybe I've (long) lost my edge from my youth. Yes, you have, you dumb fuck. To me, the worth part of the cartel's beheadings, scalpings, skinnings, flayings is that they're done on tiles. Most of white at that. Everything is muted, they, being Mesoamerican, mute and ruddy starkly spill onto the tiles. Anyway, props for putting me off for a bit. The movie did it better, the 14⸺16-year-old lass shuddering upon insertion of a subordinate yet neither bespoke nor dedicated, foreign, metal object into her vagina. To kill, mash, and scrape away a fleshy growth. A growing flesh.
Yeah, I've gone soft. Old age has killed me. I kill my life. Fuck me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite?

Duncan RalstonWc0.12
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

I'd tried the author's Ghost, first in a Ghostlands series. With 6% and a 'w', and close to no recollection, other than carnival or themepark? Or am I mistaking it with the imagery from Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage? The same's Suicide Club I still want to read, but couldn't find a free copy during my short 'suicide club'-titled book binge.
This is a collection of short stories edited to fit shallow overarching premise and setting. Not le edgy extreme gore, torture, sex⸻ain't no Matt Shaw⸻, but it's not deep. The narrator-protagonist is both shallow, as in unexplored, and contradicting, as in 'this shit you're writing don't fit (the previous shit), nigga'. I enjoy the subject matter, but not its unrefined state. It reads much like a second draft. Not a final.

One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in The Tribe (2014). Something about gynacology, obstetrics, and (surgical?) dentistry shakes or unnerves me. I don't get queasy, just uneasy. Maybe I've (long) lost my edge from my youth. Yes, you have, you dumb fuck. To me, the worth part of the cartel's beheadings, scalpings, skinnings, flayings is that they're done on tiles. Most of white at that. Everything is muted, they, being Mesoamerican, mute and ruddy starkly spill onto the tiles. Anyway, props for putting me off for a bit. The movie did it better, the 14⸺16-year-old lass shuddering upon insertion of a subordinate yet neither bespoke nor dedicated, foreign, metal object into her vagina. To kill, mash, and scrape away a fleshy growth. A growing flesh.
Yeah, I've gone soft. Old age has killed me. I kill my life. Fuck me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite?

Anthony Bourdainam0.15
How to Sit

Classic case, I think, of loss in translation from a Sinitic language. The guy female having been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize must have done something right in his her life and in that of others. The philosophy of (Zen) Buddhism, however is not rigorous. Just like how I picked apart every poem, part, line of the Tao Te Ching translated or edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. so too am I noticing all discrepancies here. Rules of thumbs, something you'd tell a child, can't well be analyzed, just like extrapolating particulars from generalities will inevitably be more often than not either obscenely wrong or trivial. Neither helpful. Daoism and Buddhism are perhaps things to practice, not read about or discuss. ... Which would lead to question of why armchairphilosophizing does work for so many other philosophies. Academically at least. The ancient text at least could be excused for not being better, this, a produce of the late 20. century, has no excuse for inanities, both philosophical and scientific, as: (rephrased) Smile, your face relaxes with every breath when smiling.
Ultimately, it is gurus'⸻and I mean that in the most derogatory sense; also, self-appointed and self-anointed positions and titles are cringe Says the almighty godcock..?⸻, bullshit like Practice the non-practice practice. that vastly undervalues or disvalues the tradition and history of most if not all the Eastern -isms. They also obfuscate learning the 'true' -ism by swamping the interested with bunkum, and possibly instilling them with bad-faith and hostile scepticism towards other -isms, that is defraying them of their good-faith and hope. And don't you fucking dare say it's lost in translation!

Thich Nhat HanhwW♀m0.91
The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman

Another Zen Buddhist text. This time, aimed at swordsman for hire, that is, samurai in feudal Japan. Written in the middle of the 1500s, it commits the errors as earlier and later texts. The reputation is from Japanophilia, and military and philosophical fetishism. What errors, you ask. That of always being so vague as to be applicable to all situations, and hence inappliable at all. Well, not always, there are a few paragraphs pertaining to combat. The rest is indiscriminate. The Tao Te Ching again wins, being partially excusable in originated from 400 BCE. That's 2000 years before this. And its only quotations and inspirations are from Chinese Confucian scholars, philosophers, advisers, or whatever. Again, this may be a better practiced than read, but this isn't informative: it doesn't build up, doesn't build down, sideways, doesn't do anything new. The off-the-cuff martial advice can be boiled down to 'theory good and practice good'. With sufficient neck strain, you too may be a crane.But I'm not a crane, nor any bird, nor a lotus leaf, nor a lotus plant, nor water, nor air. And no amount of neck strain and violence will turn me into one.
Pushing analogies off the cliff is philosophical suicide. And Takuan Soho commit it. As did the other Taoism, (Zen) Buddhism guys, who I've read.

Takuan Soho, William Scott Wilson (tr.)wW1.00
The Librarianist

The title caught my eye. Then did author's surname's spelling, leading me to case-insensitively querying my booklog for it, to discover I'd had some of his added. Incorrectly, of course. Anyway, this novel is about a librarianist. Wouldn't you know, the title is relevant. Can we not bring that back? The language is colorful, evocative while consise, but not terse, and light, never heavy-handed: not Chuck Palahniuk, nor Cassandra Khaw, nor Bruno Schulz. I found a bit of myself in most of the characters. They are distinct, perhaps too much so, resembling set pieces more often than people to usher plot beats. That aside, this is fiction, are they are meta-truthful just like (some) stories from the various religious texts are on the whole truth rather than in each individual case with all its minutiae. Protagonist serves as main observer alongside the more neutral narrator. He is not quite deadpan, but rather matter-of-fact, casual observer almost; not dull, but certainly not exciting. The story is mundane, but it is well told. I'd recommend this to those who'd liked the aforementioned three authors (or the titles I've read of 'em...). It's charming, and it'd've'n so were it about Persian rugs. More style over substance. Fuck you, I liked it!

I'd agree that diegetically isn't not great. But that is not what I wrote to you that I like within, nor what went into my review/remark. The 4 chapters comprise four segments at or around significant life events. The runaway episode was weakest, being only loosely tied to present⸻why did you feel those lovey-dovey feelings; what do you miss from the experience and why? The wistfulness is unearned, unexplained. Hard also to reconcile ~(72-24) years of nothing of note happening.

Maybe you don't like language, or like it like I do, that is, as much as I did. Maybe you find meaning and or enjoyment in other qualities of writing.

Patrick deWitt✓✔1.00
The Rape of the Lock

This was fondly mentioned in REDACTED, which itself was at M or lower tiered checkmark. Seeing it and its sister's lengths⸻~3.8e4, or 3.2e4 without the notes and forewards, a novella's worth⸻I get it the old readaroo. And what do I get for my trouble? Annoying and boring to me versified short-short story. Ya like jazz cantos..? This sort of material helps me disregard, or rather, blocks my interaction with 97% of poetry. Yeah, there's one author I do like, but it's not like I'm cumming barrels at every stanza or line. He's an M and his best would be an apparition of a checkmark.
Where's the rape? Where's the lock? Where's the key? You do seriously think I care whether or not you can rhyme like dickweed ⸻, Dickweed does not rhyme.⸻ five times? I see it more as wankery, but I'm not impressed.

Alexander Pope?m1.00
A Key to the Lock

This was fondly mentioned in REDACTED, which itself was at M or lower tiered checkmark. Seeing it and its sister's lengths⸻~3.8e4, or 3.2e4 without the notes and forewards, a novella's worth⸻I get it the old readaroo. And what do I get for my trouble? Annoying and boring to me versified short-short story. Ya like jazz cantos..? This sort of material helps me disregard, or rather, blocks my interaction with 97% of poetry. Yeah, there's one author I do like, but it's not like I'm cumming barrels at every stanza or line. He's an M and his best would be an apparition of a checkmark.
Where's the rape? Where's the lock? Where's the key? You do seriously think I care whether or not you can rhyme like dickweed ⸻, Dickweed does not rhyme.⸻ five times? I see it more as wankery, but I'm not impressed.

Alexander Pope?m0.14
Floki's Blade and Other Dream Fictions

This was fondly mentioned in REDACTED, which itself was at M or lower tiered checkmark. Seeing it and its sister's lengths⸻~3.8e4, or 3.2e4 without the notes and forewards, a novella's worth⸻I get it the old readaroo. And what do I get for my trouble? Annoying and boring to me versified short-short story. Ya like jazz cantos..? This sort of material helps me disregard, or rather, blocks my interaction with 97% of poetry. Yeah, there's one author I do like, but it's not like I'm cumming barrels at every stanza or line. He's an M and his best would be an apparition of a checkmark.
Where's the rape? Where's the lock? Where's the key? You do seriously think I care whether or not you can rhyme like dickweed ⸻, Dickweed does not rhyme.⸻ five times? I see it more as wankery, but I'm not impressed.

Edward Lucas White?0.05
Bone in the Throat

This was fondly mentioned in REDACTED, which itself was at M or lower tiered checkmark. Seeing it and its sister's lengths⸻~3.8e4, or 3.2e4 without the notes and forewards, a novella's worth⸻I get it the old readaroo. And what do I get for my trouble? Annoying and boring to me versified short-short story. Ya like jazz cantos..? This sort of material helps me disregard, or rather, blocks my interaction with 97% of poetry. Yeah, there's one author I do like, but it's not like I'm cumming barrels at every stanza or line. He's an M and his best would be an apparition of a checkmark.
Where's the rape? Where's the lock? Where's the key? You do seriously think I care whether or not you can rhyme like dickweed ⸻, Dickweed does not rhyme.⸻ five times? I see it more as wankery, but I'm not impressed.

Anthony Bourdainm0.18
The Door-to-Door Bookstore

This was fondly mentioned in REDACTED, which itself was at M or lower tiered checkmark. Seeing it and its sister's lengths⸻~3.8e4, or 3.2e4 without the notes and forewards, a novella's worth⸻I get it the old readaroo. And what do I get for my trouble? Annoying and boring to me versified short-short story. Ya like jazz cantos..? This sort of material helps me disregard, or rather, blocks my interaction with 97% of poetry. Yeah, there's one author I do like, but it's not like I'm cumming barrels at every stanza or line. He's an M and his best would be an apparition of a checkmark.
Where's the rape? Where's the lock? Where's the key? You do seriously think I care whether or not you can rhyme like dickweed ⸻, Dickweed does not rhyme.⸻ five times? I see it more as wankery, but I'm not impressed.

Carsten Henn, Melody Shaw (tr.)a0.08
Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions

The introduction or forword to the four essays, which are more opinion-thought-experience pieces in a Sunday column of better newspaper (R.I.P.), touches upon points I've tried to impress. I was going to recommend it, the preamble, but he quadruples the length, dulling any focus and pointedness. It reads like a hanargue, like a salable, long twitter thread from somebody with a following, that is, a small one. Not so much pretentious as un-self-aware of, clueless to his position in the various hierarchies.
Throughlines are loose, the whole piece doesn't resolve anything, doesn't argue anything. Nothing radical, nothing I haven't heard around 2015, nor strong or different. Very 'mid'. Upper middle class white American without family aged 35-ish..? I query his name. Lo and behold⸻'Evan Puschak is an American video essayist, journalist and creator of the YouTube channel The NerdWriter'. Why everything herein is about as deep as leeking, stepped on kiddie pool. Also guessed his age. Fuck me, as a bonus to myself, I'm nixing this dimwit.

Evan Puschakwka0.18
Why Argument Matters

I went into this thinking it a book on argumentation. Like the positive side of

Pornography for the End of the World

Don't have the punch and snap of other 'extreme' 'horror' short story collections, let alone novels. They lack polish and lack arcs, development, and hence all endings seem rushed and out of left field. Again, this may be a my indisposition toward short(-er) literary formats, or may have to do with Brendyboi's inexperience. I'd noticed his name elsewhere, remember having only an audiobook of the previous title by him. An SSC it was too, but I've either refined my taste and sharpened my understanding of lit, and or this hasn't seen the edition necessary to make most work. Calling them stories does the format a disservice, they more resemble vignettes, snapshots.

Speaking of its head, the mass—which made up a third of its total bulk—was comprised of hundreds of sagging feelers, like thin, boneless necks. And on the end of each was a bright red, vaguely baby-looking face. The many mouths opened in tandem, and the abomination made a sound like the cries in a hospital nursery crossed with the screams of slaughtered swine—as it charged them on its knuckled appendages. ...
And it only took a second for the abomination to close the distance between them. It seized the Lawyer in one grotesquely large baby hand and hauled him up to its thicket of faces. They giggle and mewled as they clamped down on his exposed flesh and began to suckle. His skin burst open under the pressure, and the hall filled with a thick, phlegmy, slurping sound. The Lawyer's screams rapidly turned to shocked moans and wet coughing, as the baby heads drank his blood and organs.

Sigh. Bruh, you serious? That's not how you applied physics and chemistry, that is, medicine, works. Had I the suspension of disbelief, I'd still need a short yet easily satisfiable attention. If you're going to have a Horse Lung Thing make use of it, make it scary, make it work. Don't envelop every concept your edgy mind excretes while on the shitter in a few thou words, mangle these into a greater titled turd, and send it to your agent as final fucking draft!

Brendan ViditomM0.76
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Georg, if you're reading this⸻what the fuck were you thinking liking this or recommending it to me back in 2017 or –18?! (Unless I'm misremembering what book he'd then recommended or said he'd been reading, though I'd bet my sack on the words dog' and 'night-time'. I'd've never more than glanced through this turd's title, let alone blurb. He-he, 'turd blurb'.)
Had had this on my kindle during a car trip along a route the scenery I'd already seen in the other direction, so I'd given it what become a second shot. A 15-year-2-month-13-day-old boy in English is the protagonist. My view is amenable, but from the introductory 21% last time and 5% this time, you can't unwash or even dilute the sense of contrivance. The boy is written as (clinically) autistic though not in need of regular or active assistance. That, or he is any subset of antisocial, unsocialized, of a low IQ.

The protagonist, the defunct autist is both too literal, but inconsistently so. Example 1, And sometimes, when someone has died, like Mother died, people say, 'What would you want to say to your mother if she was here now?' or 'What would your mother think about that?' which is stupid because Mother is dead and you can't say anything to people who are dead and dead people can't think.. Both questions admittedly leaves omit, because it is tacitly to be understood, an (and) alive and well of sorts between 'here' and 'now' or 'your' and 'think'. He supposedly parses these uncharitably as 'What you would say to your mother's corpse if your mother's corpse where in this physical location at this very moment?' and 'Would your dead mother think about that?'⸻this is too literal and unuseful. Non-verbal communication is a great part of how human interact, certainly has been before widespread literacy. Additionally, context, multisemantics and overloadings allow the language user to increase idea or meaning per syllable or word density greatly. Inconsistently, he know why wordplay and puns are a thing, why they can be funny to others by explain a joke early on. Could be explanable were a single reference, say, his home or family dictionary, to be not his, but the semantic alpha and omega. Wiktionary presently has 18 meanings for 'business', and others' private affairs, dealings is one of them. Next paragraph contradicts his knowledge of (senile) dementia, mentioned earlier about a neighbor: And Grandmother has pictures in her head, too, but her pictures are all confused, like someone has muddled the film up and she can't tell what happened in what order, so she thinks that dead people are still alive and she doesn't know whether something happened in real life or whether it happened on television.. Learning his mother was 'sick', he'd made one get-well card, the kind a 9-to-12-year-old would have made judging its description and especially the ebook's attached images and told his dad that he should take food to her. After she had 'died', he'd expressed no emotions, nor thoughts, merely accepted it as fact. That was the extent his care. With that in mind, why would he be 'giddy' upon learning she wasn't 'dead' or have an emotional tummy ache? Is the latter something similar to having butterflies the/one's stomache, or..? But he doesn't have a close, nor romantic, nor intimate, nor normal mother-son nor mother-child relationship with her. I don't understand.

It's as if he knows he is conscious but is not self-conscious. Doesn't realize himself capable of introspection. He is highly inconsiderate of others, behaves as if he were a boy punished arbitrarily by foreign automata. The boy doesn't go into philosophy, but I'd say he suffer's solipsism unconsciously.

Minor grievances These add up to be more than their sum, they indicate greater, harder to pinpoint with one (normal-sized) sentence issues. How this a final, that is, for publication, edited draft could be is ponderable. Now then I take issue with some things, I'm reading and noting:
1, the one of the first chapters' our boy, that is, our ignorant or illiterate author states (through his know-it-all annoying cunt of a protagonist) that 'Χρίστος' is Greek for 'Jesus Christ'. It's not; it's not even 'just for the second part', the surname, as if it were. It means 'the annointed' derived from the verb for therefor. Why not give the full etymology?! It's so fucking short, Alice (vertically challenge female) towers over it.
2, the 4-minute dead dog hug is never explained. You like dogs? I'm sorry, uh, what..? Autistic shits can and do like things, but generally find difficulty expressing that emotion, and all others too, satisfactorily to both them and others. That is, not being a 3⸺4 standard deviations away from the mean by showing affection through incendiarism or merciless violence.
3, you may do a lot of reading, but you don't come of as (book)smart, just observant. Put it down to author not having diligently researched his topic and subjects.
4, main's le quirkiness is more artificial and robotic, and despicable than that of tweens online before discovering consciousness and self-consciousness. It's like getting Dustin Hoffman from Rainman, and making him more quirky and annoying and less useful. It has no reason to be. Perhaps this would better appeal to youths..? (Yes, he is a children's author!)
5, no, one cannot through thinking alone deduct that the universe is expanding.
6, low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets cause disease, whatever the physical activity level⸻this one got to me most. Author tries to, I'd think, promote certain ideas to tweens by spouting random government-issued and -promoted, at worst, falsities and, at best, trivial, little actionable factoids.
7, at 37%, 'trousers' is refered to using 'it'. If you'd used the more English singular, not bells would've rung.
8, at 49%, a long obsolete (according to wiktionary and assuming from the zero retrieved from duckduckgo and www.onelook.com) spelling of 'surveyor', namely, 'survayor' is used.
9, at 52%, incorrect mythological and psychoanalytical off-hand description of what a homunculus is.
10, at 53%, an inept description of 'feelings'. Conveniently not one from a dictionary, but what his caretaking, or school psychologist, or tard wrangler has said once, enough for him to latch on for eternity⸻the first encounter or meaning subsumes possible.
11, at 57%, regarding a central or important neighbor/secondary character: And this time she wouldn't tell me to go away because I would be able to tell her who had killed Wellington and that way she would know that I was a friend. You have no friend. If everything is literal and or experiential to you, how do you how what a friend is, for yourself or for others? Are acquaintance and a power-outage-overnighting sufficient?

There are three developments within the novel. Arcs? Yeah, uh, no. The father has a change aaand that's it. Yes, it's real stingy. Plot and narrative are scant. The whole fits within 5⸺6 sentences easily. Were this not a children's, primary-to-middle school book, I'd've called it an attempted character study of (gifted) autistic children (and their parents). He's 15 yet has the mental capacity and capability of a 9⸺12-year-old. Neither does he read as autistic as I know them. If you've ever seen a documentary and interacted with such people yourself, you'd know he's off. Obnoxious, diegetically pedantic, Gary Stu. Incongruence.

Perhaps the only good things about the text were:
1, the rare (like less than 4) on-point wittisms (or mouthing-offs, if you're an authoritative parent);
2, approaching the adult or mature topics of adultery, autism, ('white') lying and others' perceived necessity for it;
3, the following quote:

But this is really silly because it is just stars, and you could join up the dots in any way you wanted, and you could make it look like a lady with an umbrella who is waving, or the coffeemaker which Mrs. Shears has, which is from Italy, with a handle and steam coming out, or like a dinosaur And there aren't any lines in space, so you could join bits of Orion to bits of Lepus or Taurus or Gemini and say that they were a constellation called the Bunch of Grapes or Jesus or the Bicycle (except that they didn't have bicycles in Roman and Greek times, which was when they called Orion Orion).

Mark HaddonAaw1.45
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Georg, if you're reading this⸻what the fuck were you thinking liking this or recommending it to me back in 2017 or –18?! (Unless I'm misremembering what book he'd then recommended or said he'd been reading, though I'd bet my sack on the words dog' and 'night-time'. I'd've never more than glanced through this turd's title, let alone blurb. He-he, 'turd blurb'.)
Had had this on my kindle during a car trip along a route the scenery I'd already seen in the other direction, so I'd given it what become a second shot. A 15-year-2-month-13-day-old boy in English is the protagonist. My view is amenable, but from the introductory 21% last time and 5% this time, you can't unwash or even dilute the sense of contrivance. The boy is written as (clinically) autistic though not in need of regular or active assistance. That, or he is any subset of antisocial, unsocialized, of a low IQ.

The protagonist, the defunct autist is both too literal, but inconsistently so. Example 1, And sometimes, when someone has died, like Mother died, people say, 'What would you want to say to your mother if she was here now?' or 'What would your mother think about that?' which is stupid because Mother is dead and you can't say anything to people who are dead and dead people can't think.. Both questions admittedly leaves omit, because it is tacitly to be understood, an (and) alive and well of sorts between 'here' and 'now' or 'your' and 'think'. He supposedly parses these uncharitably as 'What you would say to your mother's corpse if your mother's corpse where in this physical location at this very moment?' and 'Would your dead mother think about that?'⸻this is too literal and unuseful. Non-verbal communication is a great part of how human interact, certainly has been before widespread literacy. Additionally, context, multisemantics and overloadings allow the language user to increase idea or meaning per syllable or word density greatly. Inconsistently, he know why wordplay and puns are a thing, why they can be funny to others by explain a joke early on. Could be explanable were a single reference, say, his home or family dictionary, to be not his, but the semantic alpha and omega. Wiktionary presently has 18 meanings for 'business', and others' private affairs, dealings is one of them. Next paragraph contradicts his knowledge of (senile) dementia, mentioned earlier about a neighbor: And Grandmother has pictures in her head, too, but her pictures are all confused, like someone has muddled the film up and she can't tell what happened in what order, so she thinks that dead people are still alive and she doesn't know whether something happened in real life or whether it happened on television.. Learning his mother was 'sick', he'd made one get-well card, the kind a 9-to-12-year-old would have made judging its description and especially the ebook's attached images and told his dad that he should take food to her. After she had 'died', he'd expressed no emotions, nor thoughts, merely accepted it as fact. That was the extent his care. With that in mind, why would he be 'giddy' upon learning she wasn't 'dead' or have an emotional tummy ache? Is the latter something similar to having butterflies the/one's stomache, or..? But he doesn't have a close, nor romantic, nor intimate, nor normal mother-son nor mother-child relationship with her. I don't understand.

It's as if he knows he is conscious but is not self-conscious. Doesn't realize himself capable of introspection. He is highly inconsiderate of others, behaves as if he were a boy punished arbitrarily by foreign automata. The boy doesn't go into philosophy, but I'd say he suffer's solipsism unconsciously.

Minor grievances These add up to be more than their sum, they indicate greater, harder to pinpoint with one (normal-sized) sentence issues. How this a final, that is, for publication, edited draft could be is ponderable. Now then I take issue with some things, I'm reading and noting:
1, the one of the first chapters' our boy, that is, our ignorant or illiterate author states (through his know-it-all annoying cunt of a protagonist) that 'Χρίστος' is Greek for 'Jesus Christ'. It's not; it's not even 'just for the second part', the surname, as if it were. It means 'the annointed' derived from the verb for therefor. Why not give the full etymology?! It's so fucking short, Alice (vertically challenge female) towers over it.
2, the 4-minute dead dog hug is never explained. You like dogs? I'm sorry, uh, what..? Autistic shits can and do like things, but generally find difficulty expressing that emotion, and all others too, satisfactorily to both them and others. That is, not being a 3⸺4 standard deviations away from the mean by showing affection through incendiarism or merciless violence.
3, you may do a lot of reading, but you don't come of as (book)smart, just observant. Put it down to author not having diligently researched his topic and subjects.
4, main's le quirkiness is more artificial and robotic, and despicable than that of tweens online before discovering consciousness and self-consciousness. It's like getting Dustin Hoffman from Rainman, and making him more quirky and annoying and less useful. It has no reason to be. Perhaps this would better appeal to youths..? (Yes, he is a children's author!)
5, no, one cannot through thinking alone deduct that the universe is expanding.
6, low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets cause disease, whatever the physical activity level⸻this one got to me most. Author tries to, I'd think, promote certain ideas to tweens by spouting random government-issued and -promoted, at worst, falsities and, at best, trivial, little actionable factoids.
7, at 37%, 'trousers' is refered to using 'it'. If you'd used the more English singular, not bells would've rung.
8, at 49%, a long obsolete (according to wiktionary and assuming from the zero retrieved from duckduckgo and www.onelook.com) spelling of 'surveyor', namely, 'survayor' is used.
9, at 52%, incorrect mythological and psychoanalytical off-hand description of what a homunculus is.
10, at 53%, an inept description of 'feelings'. Conveniently not one from a dictionary, but what his caretaking, or school psychologist, or tard wrangler has said once, enough for him to latch on for eternity⸻the first encounter or meaning subsumes possible.
11, at 57%, regarding a central or important neighbor/secondary character: And this time she wouldn't tell me to go away because I would be able to tell her who had killed Wellington and that way she would know that I was a friend. You have no friend. If everything is literal and or experiential to you, how do you how what a friend is, for yourself or for others? Are acquaintance and a power-outage-overnighting sufficient?

There are three developments within the novel. Arcs? Yeah, uh, no. The father has a change aaand that's it. Yes, it's real stingy. Plot and narrative are scant. The whole fits within 5⸺6 sentences easily. Were this not a children's, primary-to-middle school book, I'd've called it an attempted character study of (gifted) autistic children (and their parents). He's 15 yet has the mental capacity and capability of a 9⸺12-year-old. Neither does he read as autistic as I know them. If you've ever seen a documentary and interacted with such people yourself, you'd know he's off. Obnoxious, diegetically pedantic, Gary Stu. Incongruence.

Perhaps the only good things about the text were:
1, the rare (like less than 4) on-point wittisms (or mouthing-offs, if you're an authoritative parent);
2, approaching the adult or mature topics of adultery, autism, ('white') lying and others' perceived necessity for it;
3, the following quote:

But this is really silly because it is just stars, and you could join up the dots in any way you wanted, and you could make it look like a lady with an umbrella who is waving, or the coffeemaker which Mrs. Shears has, which is from Italy, with a handle and steam coming out, or like a dinosaur And there aren't any lines in space, so you could join bits of Orion to bits of Lepus or Taurus or Gemini and say that they were a constellation called the Bunch of Grapes or Jesus or the Bicycle (except that they didn't have bicycles in Roman and Greek times, which was when they called Orion Orion).

Richard Evelyn ByrdM1.00
A Spot of Bother

Mister author had been extensively railed for his

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

Only because it was today that I'd decided to forgo finishing

Keep It in the Family

Okay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me.

John Marrsmwab0.40
When You Disappeared

Okay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me.

John Marrswb0.02
Video Nasties

Okay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me.

Duncan Ralstonbw0.08
No Encore!: Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs

Shitting on him and this mindless fans So-called celebrity chefs have their pros and cons. Bourdain has written a few books not with recipes. Gordon Ramsey has one autobiographical and one regarding sports and physical activity, his marathoning. Marco Pierre White, the Knorr connoisseur, may have one. The point is, he's had more than one story to tell, something to say. That or TV suits have, backed by consistently higher than expected ratings, invested in him. And a man loves his hedonism. And Bordo much unlike the other 2 is a spender. Is he rather viewable, bingeable, charming, handsome, goood, educating? Can't say. But he's had he has more than a one. Suits speak loudly. I'd never found him more or much more appealing than the other two. G.R. is entertainingmost when over-the-top-ly angry at others. After author's suicide, the internet, mostly its 20-something men, suddenly started collectively and for quite a while gushing over him like teenaged girls over Disney magazine spreads in the 00s and 10s. Robin Williams, who decades long entertained and made people laugh with movies and grade-A stand-ups shows and mere bits, was much more quickly forgotten despite sharing a final routine. I've tried 5 other books by him. Exclude the one fiction, that I couldn't get into, I've finished and liked 1 only. The guy or his editor(ial team) fore sure has a way with words when to do with food. But the writing is too often for me stilted, ingenuine. He writes as much bitwise in each, that he'd doing it for the money, for the fun, the drugs, the expensive food and experiences, chasing his long dead and charred, wind-swept youth. He's cognizant of his rather great fortunes.

But what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, Kitchen Confidential shares in this, but more rushes past, being more CV, or shopping list of accomplishments and experiences than a leather-bound, detailed 5-volume set. Or maybe I'm just in the just the right mood to receive his chefly cock. But here, with the introduction and the first story of pork in Portugal, I got it, I felt it, I loved it. Maybe I'm going soft yet again, or it was just that one story, but it got to me. (So⸻three cheers for pig!)

Drew Fortunem0.83
The Hole

Shitting on him and this mindless fans So-called celebrity chefs have their pros and cons. Bourdain has written a few books not with recipes. Gordon Ramsey has one autobiographical and one regarding sports and physical activity, his marathoning. Marco Pierre White, the Knorr connoisseur, may have one. The point is, he's had more than one story to tell, something to say. That or TV suits have, backed by consistently higher than expected ratings, invested in him. And a man loves his hedonism. And Bordo much unlike the other 2 is a spender. Is he rather viewable, bingeable, charming, handsome, goood, educating? Can't say. But he's had he has more than a one. Suits speak loudly. I'd never found him more or much more appealing than the other two. G.R. is entertainingmost when over-the-top-ly angry at others. After author's suicide, the internet, mostly its 20-something men, suddenly started collectively and for quite a while gushing over him like teenaged girls over Disney magazine spreads in the 00s and 10s. Robin Williams, who decades long entertained and made people laugh with movies and grade-A stand-ups shows and mere bits, was much more quickly forgotten despite sharing a final routine. I've tried 5 other books by him. Exclude the one fiction, that I couldn't get into, I've finished and liked 1 only. The guy or his editor(ial team) fore sure has a way with words when to do with food. But the writing is too often for me stilted, ingenuine. He writes as much bitwise in each, that he'd doing it for the money, for the fun, the drugs, the expensive food and experiences, chasing his long dead and charred, wind-swept youth. He's cognizant of his rather great fortunes.

But what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, Kitchen Confidential shares in this, but more rushes past, being more CV, or shopping list of accomplishments and experiences than a leather-bound, detailed 5-volume set. Or maybe I'm just in the just the right mood to receive his chefly cock. But here, with the introduction and the first story of pork in Portugal, I got it, I felt it, I loved it. Maybe I'm going soft yet again, or it was just that one story, but it got to me. (So⸻three cheers for pig!)

Hiroko Oyamada?bm0.51
Out of the Forest

Shitting on him and this mindless fans So-called celebrity chefs have their pros and cons. Bourdain has written a few books not with recipes. Gordon Ramsey has one autobiographical and one regarding sports and physical activity, his marathoning. Marco Pierre White, the Knorr connoisseur, may have one. The point is, he's had more than one story to tell, something to say. That or TV suits have, backed by consistently higher than expected ratings, invested in him. And a man loves his hedonism. And Bordo much unlike the other 2 is a spender. Is he rather viewable, bingeable, charming, handsome, goood, educating? Can't say. But he's had he has more than a one. Suits speak loudly. I'd never found him more or much more appealing than the other two. G.R. is entertainingmost when over-the-top-ly angry at others. After author's suicide, the internet, mostly its 20-something men, suddenly started collectively and for quite a while gushing over him like teenaged girls over Disney magazine spreads in the 00s and 10s. Robin Williams, who decades long entertained and made people laugh with movies and grade-A stand-ups shows and mere bits, was much more quickly forgotten despite sharing a final routine. I've tried 5 other books by him. Exclude the one fiction, that I couldn't get into, I've finished and liked 1 only. The guy or his editor(ial team) fore sure has a way with words when to do with food. But the writing is too often for me stilted, ingenuine. He writes as much bitwise in each, that he'd doing it for the money, for the fun, the drugs, the expensive food and experiences, chasing his long dead and charred, wind-swept youth. He's cognizant of his rather great fortunes.

But what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, Kitchen Confidential shares in this, but more rushes past, being more CV, or shopping list of accomplishments and experiences than a leather-bound, detailed 5-volume set. Or maybe I'm just in the just the right mood to receive his chefly cock. But here, with the introduction and the first story of pork in Portugal, I got it, I felt it, I loved it. Maybe I'm going soft yet again, or it was just that one story, but it got to me. (So⸻three cheers for pig!)

Gregory P. SmithmM1.00
The Porpoise

Wanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading.

Mark Haddon?ma0.10
The Nightmare Girl

Wanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading.

Jonathan Janzmbw0.05
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Wanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading.

Ross Petras, Kathryn PetrasKMm1.00
A Short Stay in Hell

Was recommended this, not because it was good, no. That would have been too convenient, too easy. Because they were reminded of me. The 'not because the prose is any good', that I'd gotten, is so fucking apt. The very first fucking paragraph of the fucking prologue is clumsy, with sentences' word amounts being 29 10 33 5 36. Fuck me, I wanna tear apart this shit-for-brains writer. A quick search later, aaand it'd not be impossible to get in touch with him. But it'd be an imprudent use of my time. He a Mormon⸻so that's a 'g', at least heavily informative of his whole past⸻and he writes recreationally, while being a 'professor' of 'biology', in quotes because American tertiary educational system is in shambles and ruins. So that's a 'w'. The very first sentennce has a fucking 36-word concluding sentence, that is heavy, overly worded, and middle-school-enthusiasm-like. Fuck me. The rest of of the prologue is no better, it's slightly cringe-y and it's overly long, like not having passed enough drafts, and it's juvenile (at least no (adult-age) chuunibyou, dude's graying!).
Chapter 1, and it is still insufferable. There's no hook. Nothing is or was dangled to continue reading for. Amateurish.

Stephen L. PeckwW0.15
John Wayne Cleaver: 1 - I Am Not a Serial Killer

The author is the one entity to praise

John Wayne Cleaver: 2 - Mr. Monster

The author is the one entity to praise

Pictures of Apocalypse

The author is the one entity to praise

Frank Burly: 01 - The Time Machine Did It

Very rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies.

John Swartzwelder1.40
2c Worth

Very rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies.

David J. Schow1.50
Frank Burly: 02 - How I Conquered Your Planet

Very rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies.

John Swartzwelder1.00
Frank Burly: 03 - The Exploding Detective

Very rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies.

John Swartzwelder✓M1.00
God of Hungry Walls

Neither bizarro, nor splatterpunk, nor salable horror either⸻I can't tag this straightforwardly. Does reads as novice's serious attempt. It shows from the many frayed threads leading nowhere, the non-neutrality, the personality, the human-ness (not humanity..?) of the SPOILER house('s spirit), and all humans. The idea of an inanimate object subtly and or furtively interacting with the people, who use it, is reminiscent of

Abroad in Japan

Neither bizarro, nor splatterpunk, nor salable horror either⸻I can't tag this straightforwardly. Does reads as novice's serious attempt. It shows from the many frayed threads leading nowhere, the non-neutrality, the personality, the human-ness (not humanity..?) of the SPOILER house('s spirit), and all humans. The idea of an inanimate object subtly and or furtively interacting with the people, who use it, is reminiscent of

Sleep Disorder

Official audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories.

(Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71 Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1 Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1 The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's somewhat autobiographical, it'd click for me, for it to have been the work of carefully threading jotted down or remembered or noted gems, quips, thoughts, observations, and so on from a decade of work. At 9e4 words, it is of proper novel length; framable in a 3-act structure; all characters used or outlined are satisfactorily explained or colored in, while allowing future extension. The vocabulary is great, given the person, their purported habits and likes, even came upon a few newies (albeit relating to female attire, fuck me, do you really need that many words for a fucking shirt?). A rare case of good erotica in addition, it is more rewarding for me to have a plot and or character arcs before all the exclusive, purposefully gratuious sex. Save the ending, it doesn't linger on these. The pacing is spot on throughout. All in all, good to very good. I'd've rated it higher, were it another genre or had other content, purely subjective. I don't know whether a three-part series was the first intention. If so, I'd love to see how (un)well her past's been divvied up. Thanks, Sasha/Martina.
Also, fuck you, author's then agent, to propose or accept the spelling of 'gray' with an 'e'.

Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee✓M2.00
Tales from the Gas Station: 4

Official audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories.

(Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71 Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1 Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1 The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's somewhat autobiographical, it'd click for me, for it to have been the work of carefully threading jotted down or remembered or noted gems, quips, thoughts, observations, and so on from a decade of work. At 9e4 words, it is of proper novel length; framable in a 3-act structure; all characters used or outlined are satisfactorily explained or colored in, while allowing future extension. The vocabulary is great, given the person, their purported habits and likes, even came upon a few newies (albeit relating to female attire, fuck me, do you really need that many words for a fucking shirt?). A rare case of good erotica in addition, it is more rewarding for me to have a plot and or character arcs before all the exclusive, purposefully gratuious sex. Save the ending, it doesn't linger on these. The pacing is spot on throughout. All in all, good to very good. I'd've rated it higher, were it another genre or had other content, purely subjective. I don't know whether a three-part series was the first intention. If so, I'd love to see how (un)well her past's been divvied up. Thanks, Sasha/Martina.
Also, fuck you, author's then agent, to propose or accept the spelling of 'gray' with an 'e'.

Jack Townsendmaw0.56
Frank Burly: 06 - The Last Detective Alive

Official audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories.

(Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71 Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1 Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1 The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's somewhat autobiographical, it'd click for me, for it to have been the work of carefully threading jotted down or remembered or noted gems, quips, thoughts, observations, and so on from a decade of work. At 9e4 words, it is of proper novel length; framable in a 3-act structure; all characters used or outlined are satisfactorily explained or colored in, while allowing future extension. The vocabulary is great, given the person, their purported habits and likes, even came upon a few newies (albeit relating to female attire, fuck me, do you really need that many words for a fucking shirt?). A rare case of good erotica in addition, it is more rewarding for me to have a plot and or character arcs before all the exclusive, purposefully gratuious sex. Save the ending, it doesn't linger on these. The pacing is spot on throughout. All in all, good to very good. I'd've rated it higher, were it another genre or had other content, purely subjective. I don't know whether a three-part series was the first intention. If so, I'd love to see how (un)well her past's been divvied up. Thanks, Sasha/Martina.
Also, fuck you, author's then agent, to propose or accept the spelling of 'gray' with an 'e'.

John Swartzwelderm0.24
Frank Burly: 07 - The Fifty Foot Detective

Official audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories.

(Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71 Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1 Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1 The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's somewhat autobiographical, it'd click for me, for it to have been the work of carefully threading jotted down or remembered or noted gems, quips, thoughts, observations, and so on from a decade of work. At 9e4 words, it is of proper novel length; framable in a 3-act structure; all characters used or outlined are satisfactorily explained or colored in, while allowing future extension. The vocabulary is great, given the person, their purported habits and likes, even came upon a few newies (albeit relating to female attire, fuck me, do you really need that many words for a fucking shirt?). A rare case of good erotica in addition, it is more rewarding for me to have a plot and or character arcs before all the exclusive, purposefully gratuious sex. Save the ending, it doesn't linger on these. The pacing is spot on throughout. All in all, good to very good. I'd've rated it higher, were it another genre or had other content, purely subjective. I don't know whether a three-part series was the first intention. If so, I'd love to see how (un)well her past's been divvied up. Thanks, Sasha/Martina.
Also, fuck you, author's then agent, to propose or accept the spelling of 'gray' with an 'e'.

John Swartzwelderm0.10
The Juliette Society: 2 - The Janus Chamber

As suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad!

Sasha GreymM1.00
Then There Were None

As suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad!

Agatha Christieam0.14
I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me

As suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad!

Jason Gayawm0.15
Guantánamo Diary

The audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt REDACTEDs do get on your nerves. The many footnotes further supporting my suspicions of who's who amid the 30 odd guards, or handlers. Very repetious in what he does and they do to him. Then again, it is illegal⸻not that it'd matter were it not⸻, decade-long, torture, isolation, confinement of a human being. The military or some higher-ups were given carte blanche to combat terrorism or what they perceived to be it, and they used it woefully ineffectively, at the very least in GTMO. Heartening to read of some good human interactions between detainees, detainers, and between both.

Mohamedou Ould SlahimMb1.00
Truck Stop

The audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt REDACTEDs do get on your nerves. The many footnotes further supporting my suspicions of who's who amid the 30 odd guards, or handlers. Very repetious in what he does and they do to him. Then again, it is illegal⸻not that it'd matter were it not⸻, decade-long, torture, isolation, confinement of a human being. The military or some higher-ups were given carte blanche to combat terrorism or what they perceived to be it, and they used it woefully ineffectively, at the very least in GTMO. Heartening to read of some good human interactions between detainees, detainers, and between both.

John Penneywmb0.69
Asleep

The audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt REDACTEDs do get on your nerves. The many footnotes further supporting my suspicions of who's who amid the 30 odd guards, or handlers. Very repetious in what he does and they do to him. Then again, it is illegal⸻not that it'd matter were it not⸻, decade-long, torture, isolation, confinement of a human being. The military or some higher-ups were given carte blanche to combat terrorism or what they perceived to be it, and they used it woefully ineffectively, at the very least in GTMO. Heartening to read of some good human interactions between detainees, detainers, and between both.

Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (tr.)bB0.09
The Apartment

An interesting novel. Firstly, the name⸻the first quarter to third, the introduction, say, is about a person and his life abroad in some place, leading to his looking for a place to rent out. Putting a definite article before any noun makes primes for mediocre, cheap 'horror'. The cover art is of a teenaged boy⸻not a 41-year-old retired/discharged naval officer⸻, in what seems to be an English⸻not German; the present frame of the plot obviously, albeit tacitly occurs in Deutschland⸻, city during winter. They got the season right at least. A first-person account of relocation and rental residence hunting. Thrilling, I know. The issue is everything going too smoothly. Dude scores a cheap place to live initially, easily, with nice food and conditions. Dude has a pension at 41 for some reason or enough cash. Dude scores a 25-year-old girlfriend to do everything for him. The initial quarter, wherefrom I'm pausing to right this, resembles a child's mental snapshot⸻perfect, pink, pretty. There are not problem to overcome. The main is somewhere being woefully placid, apathetic to any negative. Where is the hook, Greg? It's a rarity for lack of chapters or any structural components. It's no stream-of-consciousness either, merely reads flowy-er, more continuous. 3-act structure doesn't quite fit here, since Greg forgot the hook. Could call it the protasis of a 4- or 5-act structure, though at 35%, assuming 5 equals in length, the second should be over half through, and it ain't. I don't get what he's going for; it's too neat (in a bad way), too meandering. Fuck you, Greg.

I hate those fortunate, successful, content, happy. I hate, hate, hate the arbitrariness, what is commonly is perceived as cruelty, often both maliciously and cosmically exerted.

Greg Baxter?mw0.35
To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

True crime novelization. Starts off taking the cookie-cutter, easy, safe and bone-sandingly boring path of focusing on victims. Part of the book, although until our guy is introduced, it serves as extended blurb, a prelude or foreward from within. I give no flying fucks about how stay-at-home Jim's sex life must be hidden from his knitting father, or McDunnagh's favorite beer in the one saloon, or any other shallow, inconsequential minutiae. They don't paint a better picture of the star of the show, nor do they much outline or color in the setting, that common to all residents. He's two more true crime books, I'll give 'em a chance too, mind you, dearest, short reader. So, mundane til the unsuble introduction of the one odd bloke, our guy. Thankfully, that lasts only the one chapter. The focus is never adequately where I want it still though. Trisected between law enforcement and town's going-ons, the victims and their lives, and the 'baby-faced serial sex murderer'. Rolls off the tongue, don't it? Not bad, but not never great, rarely good, and certainly not deep (Not balls deep. I alway tell these god-damned authors⸻we always gotsa be balls deep. They never listen.) or linguistically, artfully challenging, novel, other. At novel length, it even bores, given it's several decades of small murdie-wurdies.

John CostonmMb1.00
Munich Airport

A mostly mundane stream-of-consciousness novel. Because of the format, I like it; so, subjectively, it's good. Makes me want to reread and relive all the ones I've read. I love those. Love! I pine for a semblance of happiness, contentment. Thanks, Greg, thank you. Objectively though, the writing ain't stellar, coated in layers of butter and honey, like Tristessa or Under the Volcano, although greatness shines through occasionally. The vocabulary is too often too poor, that is, non-literary; there too little of the other, the foreign, the wacky or zaney, vivified through any of word, sentence, or paragraph. Are are fine to damn fine bits though. I'm considering giving the dropped-at-a-third book, The Apartment, another go. Anyway, I'm happy to be reading this, to have read this; I'm interested to see how the author grows.

Greg Baxter✓M1.00
The Lost

I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g.,

Episode Thirteen

I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g.,

The Icepick Surgeon

I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g.,

Lord Miles in Afghanistan

I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g.,

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g.,

Full Brutal

A light-hearted novel about a half-psychopathic, half-zaney (think le batshit insane, le im so quirky), sadistic, 16-year-old female, who lies, humiliates, dominates, betrays, and deceives. Veronica, as (You), you'd like this, briefly at least. (I had so much to rec you at one point.) The lack of explanation and or history coupled with the audiobook's giddy narrator makes for an inhuman, cartoonish main character. Since these are first-world children, I doubt solemnity and or (over-)dramatization would've a better result helped create. There's good reason why the successfulmost of serial killers and warlords aren't teenagers, but in thei late 20s or 30s. Being in on the joke, most, if not all, opportunities for unprovoked jabs, pokes, puns, and cruelty are seized. It's like a (okay-to-good) Adult Swim cartoon.

Kristopher TrianaM✓1.00
Body Art

Waffling between an M, a light checkmark, and an m on this. Slightly raunchy, slasher/gore/necro/erotica thing. Where it fails⸻1, too many 'just go with it's and not enough explanation; 2, consistently retarded pacing and no subversion, a (bad or old) joke sans punchline; 3, doesn't second second and third act are fused, undirected or confused. After half, reading on merely grants some slight resolution to characters, but it's just not worth it. Not worth it. It's not tight or punchy ever. Needs a rewrite, trim a third.

Kristopher TrianaM1.00
Alchemical Journeys: 1 - Middlegame

Waffling between an M, a light checkmark, and an m on this. Slightly raunchy, slasher/gore/necro/erotica thing. Where it fails⸻1, too many 'just go with it's and not enough explanation; 2, consistently retarded pacing and no subversion, a (bad or old) joke sans punchline; 3, doesn't second second and third act are fused, undirected or confused. After half, reading on merely grants some slight resolution to characters, but it's just not worth it. Not worth it. It's not tight or punchy ever. Needs a rewrite, trim a third.

Seanan McGuireaw0.01
Cursed Bunny

Collection of a Korean female's stories. They lack narrative structure⸻no 3-, 4-, or 5-act one, no obvious one, at least. Each drags on way too much to be a pretty snapshot of a character, a scene, an event. It's also anime, quirky for its own sake, and hence annnoying. I appreciate most stories being female. They not extremely, nor always successful, nevertheless interesting here or there. I wouldn't've given this, nor nominated it for the International Booker Prize, but I don't know how shit the competition is.

Bora Chung, Anton Hur (tr.)?M0.54
Number Go Up: Insides Krypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Collection of a Korean female's stories. They lack narrative structure⸻no 3-, 4-, or 5-act one, no obvious one, at least. Each drags on way too much to be a pretty snapshot of a character, a scene, an event. It's also anime, quirky for its own sake, and hence annnoying. I appreciate most stories being female. They not extremely, nor always successful, nevertheless interesting here or there. I wouldn't've given this, nor nominated it for the International Booker Prize, but I don't know how shit the competition is.

Zeke FauxmMb1.00
The Juliette Society: 3 - The Mismade Girl

The conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring Oh,-fuck,-something-was-supposed-to-further-the-nothing-plot-here!s are what leaves makes it narratively unsatisfying, distasteful even. Both seem like more like quips and thoughts, uncrammable into the already dense in all aspects first book, leaving them dilute in comparison. The ante upped twice, out of the blue, this time moustache-twirlingly evilly, to put leftovers to use, or rest.

Sasha GreymMbp1.00
Comte De Gabalis

The conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring Oh,-fuck,-something-was-supposed-to-further-the-nothing-plot-here!s are what leaves makes it narratively unsatisfying, distasteful even. Both seem like more like quips and thoughts, uncrammable into the already dense in all aspects first book, leaving them dilute in comparison. The ante upped twice, out of the blue, this time moustache-twirlingly evilly, to put leftovers to use, or rest.

Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villarswab0.13
Tell Me I'm Worthless

The conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring Oh,-fuck,-something-was-supposed-to-further-the-nothing-plot-here!s are what leaves makes it narratively unsatisfying, distasteful even. Both seem like more like quips and thoughts, uncrammable into the already dense in all aspects first book, leaving them dilute in comparison. The ante upped twice, out of the blue, this time moustache-twirlingly evilly, to put leftovers to use, or rest.

Alison Rumfittbwg0.07
Brainwyrms

The conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring Oh,-fuck,-something-was-supposed-to-further-the-nothing-plot-here!s are what leaves makes it narratively unsatisfying, distasteful even. Both seem like more like quips and thoughts, uncrammable into the already dense in all aspects first book, leaving them dilute in comparison. The ante upped twice, out of the blue, this time moustache-twirlingly evilly, to put leftovers to use, or rest.

Alison Rumfittgw0.01
The Flowers of Buffoonery

Seeing a title, this one, with this author⸻fucktard of a stupid shit, even by Jap standards, praised by weebos and pseudointellectuals⸻, with such a short length, I decided to gave him a chance to redisappoint. He did so. What I got from the third read: narrator is part of the plot somehow, symbolically, or exists within the same world. Main character is recovering from some accident in some hospital and has shallow (non-)friends the same way most Japanese media depicts them. I don't understand why their relationship exists, why he's there or what the accident was, why the other patients are focused on, the the point of any one thing is diagetically. Things just happen. But they're also extraordinarily mundane and the language used is bland, curt, and falsely dichotomous. Annoying for using tropes of Japanese culture or artistic media; bad writing for nothing doing anything with anything, being pointless.

Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (tr.)aw0.33
Some Remarks

Seeing a title, this one, with this author⸻fucktard of a stupid shit, even by Jap standards, praised by weebos and pseudointellectuals⸻, with such a short length, I decided to gave him a chance to redisappoint. He did so. What I got from the third read: narrator is part of the plot somehow, symbolically, or exists within the same world. Main character is recovering from some accident in some hospital and has shallow (non-)friends the same way most Japanese media depicts them. I don't understand why their relationship exists, why he's there or what the accident was, why the other patients are focused on, the the point of any one thing is diagetically. Things just happen. But they're also extraordinarily mundane and the language used is bland, curt, and falsely dichotomous. Annoying for using tropes of Japanese culture or artistic media; bad writing for nothing doing anything with anything, being pointless.

Neal StephensonbB?0.26
When Nietzsche Wept

I feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and I feel there. Indeed, I am there, so long as it be good enough and or I devote my mind to it. Or is it a surrender? Vicarious living. What a strange life thing. Heh.
Is it that I find myself in Nietzsche? In the author's portrayal of him? Is that a merely a want of my ego for perceived value increase? Along those lines would it not be prudent to also ask, when one choices to associate with another, do they not see themselves, or a desirable future self in the other, to a sufficient degree? Are mutually satisfactory relationships (not) more like two adequately and differently obscured mirrors, for each to flatter themselves with? Are (not) subjectively, viscerally enjoyed art pieces reflections of ourselves too? How much of an ego do we have? How much do we safekeep it, do we nurture it under a guise of virtue?

I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future.
I pine for a person, creature, program like this book's Nietzsche, to complement myself. And I'll cherish this book for granting company of serveral fine fellows, most notably Nietzsche, who, I think, I'd've engaged with in delightful verbal pugilism. Additionally, some 19. century, European domestic, public, private scenery, people being properly happy and unhappy, properly and simplerly (that is so wrong a construction). It was nice.

Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next.
Fuck me, what is this anyway⸻neither review, nor remark.

Irvin D. Yalom1.00
The Psychology of Revolution

I feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and I feel there. Indeed, I am there, so long as it be good enough and or I devote my mind to it. Or is it a surrender? Vicarious living. What a strange life thing. Heh.
Is it that I find myself in Nietzsche? In the author's portrayal of him? Is that a merely a want of my ego for perceived value increase? Along those lines would it not be prudent to also ask, when one choices to associate with another, do they not see themselves, or a desirable future self in the other, to a sufficient degree? Are mutually satisfactory relationships (not) more like two adequately and differently obscured mirrors, for each to flatter themselves with? Are (not) subjectively, viscerally enjoyed art pieces reflections of ourselves too? How much of an ego do we have? How much do we safekeep it, do we nurture it under a guise of virtue?

I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future.
I pine for a person, creature, program like this book's Nietzsche, to complement myself. And I'll cherish this book for granting company of serveral fine fellows, most notably Nietzsche, who, I think, I'd've engaged with in delightful verbal pugilism. Additionally, some 19. century, European domestic, public, private scenery, people being properly happy and unhappy, properly and simplerly (that is so wrong a construction). It was nice.

Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next.
Fuck me, what is this anyway⸻neither review, nor remark.

Gustave Le BonM✓mbB0.96
What Life Should Mean to You

I feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and I feel there. Indeed, I am there, so long as it be good enough and or I devote my mind to it. Or is it a surrender? Vicarious living. What a strange life thing. Heh.
Is it that I find myself in Nietzsche? In the author's portrayal of him? Is that a merely a want of my ego for perceived value increase? Along those lines would it not be prudent to also ask, when one choices to associate with another, do they not see themselves, or a desirable future self in the other, to a sufficient degree? Are mutually satisfactory relationships (not) more like two adequately and differently obscured mirrors, for each to flatter themselves with? Are (not) subjectively, viscerally enjoyed art pieces reflections of ourselves too? How much of an ego do we have? How much do we safekeep it, do we nurture it under a guise of virtue?

I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future.
I pine for a person, creature, program like this book's Nietzsche, to complement myself. And I'll cherish this book for granting company of serveral fine fellows, most notably Nietzsche, who, I think, I'd've engaged with in delightful verbal pugilism. Additionally, some 19. century, European domestic, public, private scenery, people being properly happy and unhappy, properly and simplerly (that is so wrong a construction). It was nice.

Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next.
Fuck me, what is this anyway⸻neither review, nor remark.

Alfred Adleraw0.30
What Life Could Mean to You

I feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and I feel there. Indeed, I am there, so long as it be good enough and or I devote my mind to it. Or is it a surrender? Vicarious living. What a strange life thing. Heh.
Is it that I find myself in Nietzsche? In the author's portrayal of him? Is that a merely a want of my ego for perceived value increase? Along those lines would it not be prudent to also ask, when one choices to associate with another, do they not see themselves, or a desirable future self in the other, to a sufficient degree? Are mutually satisfactory relationships (not) more like two adequately and differently obscured mirrors, for each to flatter themselves with? Are (not) subjectively, viscerally enjoyed art pieces reflections of ourselves too? How much of an ego do we have? How much do we safekeep it, do we nurture it under a guise of virtue?

I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future.
I pine for a person, creature, program like this book's Nietzsche, to complement myself. And I'll cherish this book for granting company of serveral fine fellows, most notably Nietzsche, who, I think, I'd've engaged with in delightful verbal pugilism. Additionally, some 19. century, European domestic, public, private scenery, people being properly happy and unhappy, properly and simplerly (that is so wrong a construction). It was nice.

Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next.
Fuck me, what is this anyway⸻neither review, nor remark.

Alfred Adlerwb0.15
The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

I feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and I feel there. Indeed, I am there, so long as it be good enough and or I devote my mind to it. Or is it a surrender? Vicarious living. What a strange life thing. Heh.
Is it that I find myself in Nietzsche? In the author's portrayal of him? Is that a merely a want of my ego for perceived value increase? Along those lines would it not be prudent to also ask, when one choices to associate with another, do they not see themselves, or a desirable future self in the other, to a sufficient degree? Are mutually satisfactory relationships (not) more like two adequately and differently obscured mirrors, for each to flatter themselves with? Are (not) subjectively, viscerally enjoyed art pieces reflections of ourselves too? How much of an ego do we have? How much do we safekeep it, do we nurture it under a guise of virtue?

I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future.
I pine for a person, creature, program like this book's Nietzsche, to complement myself. And I'll cherish this book for granting company of serveral fine fellows, most notably Nietzsche, who, I think, I'd've engaged with in delightful verbal pugilism. Additionally, some 19. century, European domestic, public, private scenery, people being properly happy and unhappy, properly and simplerly (that is so wrong a construction). It was nice.

Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next.
Fuck me, what is this anyway⸻neither review, nor remark.

Ken Smithm0.09
The Schopenhauer Cure

Nietsche⸻supposed lonest, supposed greatest philosopher of the past 2 centuries (as he reckons himself)⸻is right off the bat much more social, prissy, annoying, a simp, and a virgin than bigdick Schopenhauer. Like, by a lot, and this within each stage of life observed in book. Irvin seems spiteful toward him in portraying him, irregardless of age, as a know-it-all, albeit a correct one, and something between arrogant, snobbish, and inconsiderate. Instead he focuses on raising the cunt, his mother, and sister. Compare that to Nietsche's closest kin relations and their description in When Nietzsche Wept.

I was disappointed to find here no next (alternate/alternative) historical psychiactric-psychological-philosophical novel, one where dialogue, introspection and observation move along all. Instead one has two timetimes, both chronologically ascending. One of our handsome philosopher, one of the a present day psychiatrist⸻gotta have a self-insert and or narrative device, (my dude can't help himself, though I'd like to hope this won't be recurring in the 8 other books he's written) and an old patient of his, tied by contrivance. Both the present day protags are somewhat unlikeable, albeit they are credible, and the other folk seem human too. Funny how somebody paid to know and help people can write them (too). The problem so far is that is not as compelling or impactful or important-seeming. Yalom is uncharitable and unappreciative, and his 'fans', for lack of an immediate better, may also feel, not slighted, but disrespected. Subjectively, since I like Schopie, I like this, but objectively, the bad spin on him and the good one on his mother (and possibly later sister) is a turn-off. Despite its more past locations, none are as detailed or even described as in the aforementioned. Minus points. Despite also being about as long at 1.2e5 words, with its many commentary or interjection chapters from the author, addressing a lay reader, it seems shorter. Again, my bias shows, but so does the author's⸻this ain't no self-help book, nor a psychotherapy textbook, nor a philosophical work, which is why its unsavory, uncool. Where this shines is in the Schopie moment, of course, and therapy group members' small, yet fleshed out and distinct lives, and their interactions. These people without reason to associate, interact in the 'real' or 'normal' world, do so, and are better for it. This 'review' ain't good, I apologize, dear reader.

Irvin D. Yalom✓M1.00
Resiliently Happy: A Guide to Building Resilience and Finding Happiness

Nietsche⸻supposed lonest, supposed greatest philosopher of the past 2 centuries (as he reckons himself)⸻is right off the bat much more social, prissy, annoying, a simp, and a virgin than bigdick Schopenhauer. Like, by a lot, and this within each stage of life observed in book. Irvin seems spiteful toward him in portraying him, irregardless of age, as a know-it-all, albeit a correct one, and something between arrogant, snobbish, and inconsiderate. Instead he focuses on raising the cunt, his mother, and sister. Compare that to Nietsche's closest kin relations and their description in When Nietzsche Wept.

I was disappointed to find here no next (alternate/alternative) historical psychiactric-psychological-philosophical novel, one where dialogue, introspection and observation move along all. Instead one has two timetimes, both chronologically ascending. One of our handsome philosopher, one of the a present day psychiatrist⸻gotta have a self-insert and or narrative device, (my dude can't help himself, though I'd like to hope this won't be recurring in the 8 other books he's written) and an old patient of his, tied by contrivance. Both the present day protags are somewhat unlikeable, albeit they are credible, and the other folk seem human too. Funny how somebody paid to know and help people can write them (too). The problem so far is that is not as compelling or impactful or important-seeming. Yalom is uncharitable and unappreciative, and his 'fans', for lack of an immediate better, may also feel, not slighted, but disrespected. Subjectively, since I like Schopie, I like this, but objectively, the bad spin on him and the good one on his mother (and possibly later sister) is a turn-off. Despite its more past locations, none are as detailed or even described as in the aforementioned. Minus points. Despite also being about as long at 1.2e5 words, with its many commentary or interjection chapters from the author, addressing a lay reader, it seems shorter. Again, my bias shows, but so does the author's⸻this ain't no self-help book, nor a psychotherapy textbook, nor a philosophical work, which is why its unsavory, uncool. Where this shines is in the Schopie moment, of course, and therapy group members' small, yet fleshed out and distinct lives, and their interactions. These people without reason to associate, interact in the 'real' or 'normal' world, do so, and are better for it. This 'review' ain't good, I apologize, dear reader.

Jonathan Bigganekm0.31
The Imitation of Christ

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Thomas à KempiskgM0.22
How to Read Now Essays

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Elaine Castillowg0.01
The Fisherman

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

John Paul Langanaw0.03
The Pachinko Parlor

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (tr.)b0.09
Bartleby the Scrivener

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Herman MelvilleB0.04
The Cult of Information

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Theodore Roszakkbm0.41
Around the World in Eighty Games

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Marcus du Sautoybm0.05
I Am a Killer

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Danny Tipping, Ned Parkermb0.62
How to Read a Book

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Mortimer J. Adlerk0.18
Zone One

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Colson Whiteheadma?0.13
A Pear-Shaped Funeral

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Dan WellsM1.00
The Red House

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Mark Haddon?0.02
Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Ken Cuthbertsonm0.23
Sleep, My Child, Forever: The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

John Costonb0.10
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Rowan HooperG0.01
Smuggler

A book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl

Roger ReavesmbB0.22
The Rum Diary

Too many characters, too quickly introduced. The HST feel or charm is too toned down, as compared to his magnum opus. It's good; it's just not great. Like the former, has nice quotes. I'm watching the movie after this. Looking at metacritic, imdb, and rottentomatoes scores, it's going to be a smidge about mediocre, but forgettable and not as epic, or great as the aforementioned, namely Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Unfair, this is chronologically before his voice was found. Anyhow, I'm writting to myself and this is, whatever. feel like i should be getting back to drinking. feel like disappointment, looking at the featurettes of the movies, i can go back to drinking⸻technically, yeah, idem drugs, it's all about wanting it, if you want it sure fuggiinnnnn do it, seeing the hst interviews, i feel it, and feelin' it's important⸻, whatever

Hunter S. ThompsonM✓1.00
The Pier Falls and Other Stories

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Mark HaddonM0.59
The Quiet American

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Graham Greeneb0.30
Love's Executioner

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Irvin D. Yalommaw0.38
Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Cory Franklinm0.96
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Ira Rutkowbm0.49
White Trash Gothic: 1 - White Trash Gothic

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Edward Lee1.00
Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

A rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*

Why do we fall master Wayne?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever.



Big yikes, I know. but I write for myself here. (You) don't exist as far as I know. I'm squinting and the void ain't manifesting a reply, sooo ha! I'm right again. Now, to nurse myself back to even keel.

Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this.

Arnold van de LaarmM1.00
Short Stories About Isolation and Loneliness

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

V.A.Abw0.34
Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

Harold Schechterm1.00
Human Animals

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

Frank HamelbBm0.32
Alien: Bishop

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

T.R. Napperb0.30
Short Stories About Suicide

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

V.A.B0.18
Short Stories About Death, Dying and Loss

These are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's Diary of a Madman is perhaps the only one that, to me, grasps the issue. Most authors I know, half the stories I know of or have read. No editor is mentioned, and this being an audiobook, it could be a cheap-o, cash-grab (or routine work, sooo sooo money-make..?) production with minimal editorial work. Short story arrangement, anthologization, isn't easy when the roster is big, but that's not excuse. I know the 'human condition' is mostly universal, but highly subjective or individual, bespoke, but I'm just reading of people not tackling easy, or at least combatable problems within their lives⸻meanwhile, I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. ffs. These are not about isolation and loneliness, they just feature them. Decent-ish to okay stories, but bad antho. I foresee the other 2 being of the same quality.

V.A.B0.24
If He Hollers Let Him Go

I've read 5 of Himes' novels. Excluding the 2 potboiler, detective schlock, his 'serious' ones comment and try to neutrally document or vignette African-Americans' lives in 1940s and ⸺50s America. This was his debut. The foreword is more reactionary to or compensatory for an unfairly prejudiced past appraisal than deserving. I didn't finish the book, because it is boring. It also very much mirrors both The Lonely Crusade's and The Third Generation's main characters' traits, thoughts, and actions. It also takes places over a few days, also exposes a bit about the main's past interstitially, and features the very same features or happenstances: infidelity, qualms about acting according to one's ideals rather than succumbing to one's emotions (wrath, lust, greed, going by the biblical sins), and doing good by your 'race' and your parents. A growth or progress in any one direction is absent. Reading these 3 in order of publication, you'll not fail to miss it. The Angelino snapshots are not picturesque as the foreword presents. Mostly generalities and all too short. With the other two, you get a (vague) sense of the context. But that is 2 books too many for what should be a few paragraphs to a chapter.

Chester Himesbm0.26
Blender Babies

Johnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good.

Jon AthanMBm1.00
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution and Moral Progress

Johnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good.

Peter SingerkM1.00
William Blake and the Age of Revolution

Johnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good.

Jacob Bronowskimb0.42
A Shining

Jon Fosse was nominated for and later granted the Nobel Prize for literature for 2023. I was recommended this title, a novelette, from somebody appraised it as 'good prose'. The author is mid-50s, has some feathers in his cap. I can't say I much understand who deserves a medal. I kind of get the STEM ones. New directions in the arts are, I'd off the cusp think, even harder to find, since getting into the science is hard-er.
This is a fiction-al, narrative, stream-of-conscious text. I know I (over-)exaggerate my abilities, but I don't, at past the median, see where its, or his, greatness lays. The plot involves a individual, experiencing, 1, automotive trouble during an extended joy ride, removed from the city, and, 2, a supernatural, wouldn't you guess it, shining. While I experience swivets enduring his⸻, the character's, I'd hope⸻, endless circumlocuration, resembling more pathological stuttering than 14⸺17. court speak.
Having finish it⸻leans in, starkly arches eyebrows nigga, wat? I don't get what there is to be gotten. Reading between the lines may be necessary. Or it may be more a philosophical than story-telling, like Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. The latter I've not yet read fully, but what I have, I do not like. The the way he wrote is propitious to misreading, misinterpreting, misunderstanding, and that only after one's familiarzed oneself with the ancient 'classical' texts, mythologies, and history. If you want to say something, just fucking say it. I don't get what the point of it all is or was. Suceeeded in wasting my time more so than leaving an impression on me. If I come back to the author, it'll be to see what others read in him so Nobel-worthy. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano and

Under the Autumn Star

What a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this.
Blog post time. I'm also sick and my desire to do anything beyond breathing is 0. Utter anhedonia. I'm seeing colors, but everything is passing -200% desaturation filter. I'd say 'help'. But I've nobody, not even myself to address it to.

Knut Hamsunbm0.25
Shadows Beneath

What a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this.
Blog post time. I'm also sick and my desire to do anything beyond breathing is 0. Utter anhedonia. I'm seeing colors, but everything is passing -200% desaturation filter. I'd say 'help'. But I've nobody, not even myself to address it to.

V.A.B0.11
Letters from Father Christmas

What a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this.
Blog post time. I'm also sick and my desire to do anything beyond breathing is 0. Utter anhedonia. I'm seeing colors, but everything is passing -200% desaturation filter. I'd say 'help'. But I've nobody, not even myself to address it to.

J.R.R. TolkienB0.06
White Trash Gothic: 2 - The Homecoming

For this, the fourth book sharing a universe and locale, E.L. takes a different approach, one questionable. Where the previous had left off, this begins, only the speed of plot development is starkly reduced. He goes on these self-indulgent tangents, vomitting descriptions, details, backstories, alongside quips and jabs at himself, as if, and or less writers, as if. The 'as if's due to the main protagonist of the 2 thus far, and probably all 3 of the Bighead series, is a writer, aptly named 'The Writer'. The .5⸺3e3 word bombs are, or can be, enjoyable to read in isolation, or as anecdotes, epilogues, but 'gell' they do no with the little story there is. They're abrupt and interruptive. The intentional snark and or smugness aren't to be found elsewhere in the other 3 books. I don't know whether he'd wanted a continuation to the first and hadn't enough material, and had a contract to fullfil, or wanted to lay the groundwork for an actual one, namely the third. It doesn't read like the rest, and isn't as good. A few hundred words at most are what happens that tie the previous and the other books to this one.

Edward Lee✓M1.00
Bathed in Golden Blud

For this, the fourth book sharing a universe and locale, E.L. takes a different approach, one questionable. Where the previous had left off, this begins, only the speed of plot development is starkly reduced. He goes on these self-indulgent tangents, vomitting descriptions, details, backstories, alongside quips and jabs at himself, as if, and or less writers, as if. The 'as if's due to the main protagonist of the 2 thus far, and probably all 3 of the Bighead series, is a writer, aptly named 'The Writer'. The .5⸺3e3 word bombs are, or can be, enjoyable to read in isolation, or as anecdotes, epilogues, but 'gell' they do no with the little story there is. They're abrupt and interruptive. The intentional snark and or smugness aren't to be found elsewhere in the other 3 books. I don't know whether he'd wanted a continuation to the first and hadn't enough material, and had a contract to fullfil, or wanted to lay the groundwork for an actual one, namely the third. It doesn't read like the rest, and isn't as good. A few hundred words at most are what happens that tie the previous and the other books to this one.

Annabelle Hawthorne, Ai Lovew0.23
The Fisherman

Eldritch horror attempt in the late twentieth century or around modern times, involving two considerable narrations as backstory, or reason for the plot development. Told in the past, which I get was to make it more of a fisherman's story, but it doesn't work. For one, it's way too long, detail heavy, and, for two, the narrator changing to word-for-word regurgitate another's story (and this one had been conveyed him by yet another) makes it less believable still. Why 'attempt'? Because at a fifth or quarter that whole, a single sentence could have described all that's happened. A paragraph, all to easily. Too beat-around-the-bush-y so far. It reads as others' recollections and tales retold by the present-day protagonists. And that's no a horror story, it's rather a fictional history via anecdote of a Catskills township and specific city/village. Could have been an M, but bad delivery spoils it all. Protracting explaining the premise through fewer stories, and not being as wordy, or focused on backstory, would have made it stand on its horror legs more so than its historical ones.

John Langanmwb0.44
Calico

Eldritch horror attempt in the late twentieth century or around modern times, involving two considerable narrations as backstory, or reason for the plot development. Told in the past, which I get was to make it more of a fisherman's story, but it doesn't work. For one, it's way too long, detail heavy, and, for two, the narrator changing to word-for-word regurgitate another's story (and this one had been conveyed him by yet another) makes it less believable still. Why 'attempt'? Because at a fifth or quarter that whole, a single sentence could have described all that's happened. A paragraph, all to easily. Too beat-around-the-bush-y so far. It reads as others' recollections and tales retold by the present-day protagonists. And that's no a horror story, it's rather a fictional history via anecdote of a Catskills township and specific city/village. Could have been an M, but bad delivery spoils it all. Protracting explaining the premise through fewer stories, and not being as wordy, or focused on backstory, would have made it stand on its horror legs more so than its historical ones.

Lee GoldbergBm0.06
The Trouble with Happiness

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman (tr.)maM0.74
Turtle Diary

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Russell HobanBb0.05
Riddley Walker

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Russell HobanAw0.04
Christmas Presents

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Lisa Unger?0.12
Floater

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Gary Brandnermb1.00
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction.

Frank Dikötter✓b1.00
Pop. 1280

Great example, in my opinion, of style over substance. A grand total of nothing happens, as if⸻characters are not developed, but revealed. The banal travesty of everyday life, how we make our own dramas.

A haiku, which ponderously also rhymes⸻is that in bad taste?⸻describing my thoughts and feels about the whole thing:

Who, what, when?⸻you ask.
I don't really know, you see.
Nice grandiloquy.

On a reread, there is more nuiance. Yes, Nick is the main character, however his authority and power usage are mirrored in most everybody in town. Everybody tries to play to their advantage, to deceivedh

Jim Thompson2.00
The Nest

At 88e3 words, this 'horror' novel is mostly about cockroaches. The author's wordiness obstructs the pacing, the flow of events, and, worst of all, dampens and smothers the 'horror'. This, to me, borders a tedious read despite the interesting premise. Iain Banks' Wasp Factory's the only other using insects, that I recall reading presently. Similar to

Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program

More dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay.

Hal Goldmb1.00
Altered Perceptions

More dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay.

V.A., Brandon Sanderson (ed.), Robison Wells (ed.)ma0.13
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

More dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay.

Katja HoyermbM0.76
Cameron's Closet

All set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it.

Gary Brandnermpw1.00
Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics

All set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it.

Bernardo KastrupM✓1.00
Creatures of the Pool

All set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it.

Ramsey CampbellBb0.05
Subhuman

All set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it.

Michael McBridebw0.15
The Adventures of Augie March

Voted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion.

Saul BellowmjMb0.04
Above Suspicion

Voted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion.

Joe Sharkeybm0.30
Firebug

Voted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion.

Michael McBridebp0.48
Immune

Voted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion.

Michael McBrideb0.29
Free to Learn

Voted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion.

Peter GraymMk1.00
Zeroes

So.. an Apple commercial in the first 5 minutes? Also from what I know, jailbreaking iphones ain't possible with many model past a certain year, probably less so in the future. Then you have the annoying, stupid (in execution) main character. You mean I have to endure this no-knowing brat? Chuck, you fail me at every opportunity. Who would read this?! Hire a technical or scientific advisor, for fuck's sake. The little of this I'd read was like an even more cartoony version of early 2000s movies⸻'I'm in.'

Chuck WendigaAw0.04
The Neon Bible

A novel about 10-year-old boy written by a 15-year-old one. Occurs along the latter half the 1940s, in a central-southern-eastern American state, extremely like Louisiana (though never explicitly mentioned, hints are the river floods and clay-containing soil, and mentions of New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile). Is, like his second novel, a picaresque. Has about as much color as a kid can muster, and some the knowledge of the adult of a teen are seen as (possibly?) profound insights here and there. It is more commentary on small towns of the said place time than a story. A colorful snapshot, though not with the high resolution of his later work. Judged on its own, as an adult novel, it stands well. To me there is however little worth rereading⸻insensity (of everything) is lacking, too little is built up. Excluding the fourth or fifth chapter⸻plot-irrelevant, over 90% is preacher's and believers' words, insufferable, skip it or do yourself and others a favor by tearing it out⸻there is no discernible, over-arching structure; spanning 3 or 4 years, it is more a series of loosely connected vignettes. It begins with the endings, so kudos. Each chapter furthers the plot, the world, the characters. Killer ending though.

John Kennedy TooleM✓1.00
Fascinomas

As a 13. book by a practicing medical doctor, I'd say this mofo has too much time on his hands. Most of the stories are by him and a few of his colleagues with some remaining anonymous, for whatever bad reason. Most are from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with some from the 90s. There're not the best of the best, given the title, nor very many, and it's written as if for the layest of the lay, with frequent repetition, as if this won't be read in 2 hours. I don't think this deserves an 'M', since it barely memorable. The stories themselves, their (missing) details, and the morale of each are, his writing is median+average.

Clifton K. Meadorm1.00
Vital Organs

As a 13. book by a practicing medical doctor, I'd say this mofo has too much time on his hands. Most of the stories are by him and a few of his colleagues with some remaining anonymous, for whatever bad reason. Most are from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with some from the 90s. There're not the best of the best, given the title, nor very many, and it's written as if for the layest of the lay, with frequent repetition, as if this won't be read in 2 hours. I don't think this deserves an 'M', since it barely memorable. The stories themselves, their (missing) details, and the morale of each are, his writing is median+average.

Suzie EdgebA♀g0.10
True Medical Detective Stories

Nice, but still too short⸻both too few stories and too little details. Compared to his Fascinomas, has more medical details, making it a more interesting read.

Clifton MeadormM1.00
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change

Hey, kids, wanna see some common knowledge, lying by omission, bad and extremely constricted, economically uneducated-or-malevolent framing, and pushing of ESG for globohomo?

Thor Hansonkfg0.37
Symptoms of Unknown Origin

Hey, kids, wanna see some common knowledge, lying by omission, bad and extremely constricted, economically uneducated-or-malevolent framing, and pushing of ESG for globohomo?

Clifton K. MeadormM1.00
Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

A boots-on-the-ground, unromanticized, unpartizan account of all aspect of 'war'. Dry in delivery, but not sciencetific, that is made by the lay (or at least a conscientious, lucky-ish soldier) for the lay.

John Davis BillingsMbB1.00
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

A boots-on-the-ground, unromanticized, unpartizan account of all aspect of 'war'. Dry in delivery, but not sciencetific, that is made by the lay (or at least a conscientious, lucky-ish soldier) for the lay.

Shlomo VeneziajJgw0.09
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder

While informative by expounding on the eras' and decades' sterotype around the 'civilized world' countries, she all to frequently focuses on women. I dropped it upon the, what, 3rd or 4th objectively wrong fact(oid), about women inventing contraception. Ffs. Why couldn't you just stick to your fucking title, you brainless cunt. Annoying and boring in addition through excessive and unnessesary demonstrations. Cite, reference, describe, for fuck's sake. Fuck me. Women tick me off.

Nichi Hodgsonbam0.15
The Sleepless

Okay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like But when you're dealing with a global pandemic, overcorrection is easy. Maybe even necessary.. Author is a giant faggot, it seems. But is his writing any good? Well, it's average. So it's bad enough.
Homosexuality, fucking anything and everything, gender pick-and-choosies are pushed as the new normals of the near future. You seriously wanna sell my that in 2 decades the only technological difference from 2020 is holograms or 3D, audiovisual projections? Lazy! The main character is a not metrosexual, not effeminate, but a joke of a human, who'd go random gay sex in favor of drugs to cope with his boss's death. Woah. Corporatism sure got these guys by the balls. Does this cunt have balls? The boss whom with he's spent more time with than his girlfriend. The one supposedly dearly loves and lies to, because that's how much he loves her, how much character this 'man' has. Yeah, okay. It doesn't read like a journalistic, suspense, thriller thing, no; nor like a cyberpunk anything, since in the third I'd done of it, there has been nothing that doesn't already exist on probably even 2015 Earth. It reads like an subtle advertizement for EatZeBugz, and globalhomo, and schizo marxist bullshit.
Stick to writing what you know, fucker. The concept's exploration is scarcely more than 1⸺3 pages. The rest is meh. Not quite for women. Certainly not for any man by my definition. And the award it'd won? Blacklist all associated titles and authors. Whole does not coalesce.

Victor Manibogmw0.30
High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Cultures of Excess

Okay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like But when you're dealing with a global pandemic, overcorrection is easy. Maybe even necessary.. Author is a giant faggot, it seems. But is his writing any good? Well, it's average. So it's bad enough.
Homosexuality, fucking anything and everything, gender pick-and-choosies are pushed as the new normals of the near future. You seriously wanna sell my that in 2 decades the only technological difference from 2020 is holograms or 3D, audiovisual projections? Lazy! The main character is a not metrosexual, not effeminate, but a joke of a human, who'd go random gay sex in favor of drugs to cope with his boss's death. Woah. Corporatism sure got these guys by the balls. Does this cunt have balls? The boss whom with he's spent more time with than his girlfriend. The one supposedly dearly loves and lies to, because that's how much he loves her, how much character this 'man' has. Yeah, okay. It doesn't read like a journalistic, suspense, thriller thing, no; nor like a cyberpunk anything, since in the third I'd done of it, there has been nothing that doesn't already exist on probably even 2015 Earth. It reads like an subtle advertizement for EatZeBugz, and globalhomo, and schizo marxist bullshit.
Stick to writing what you know, fucker. The concept's exploration is scarcely more than 1⸺3 pages. The rest is meh. Not quite for women. Certainly not for any man by my definition. And the award it'd won? Blacklist all associated titles and authors. Whole does not coalesce.

Charles FlemingM1.00
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949

Okay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like But when you're dealing with a global pandemic, overcorrection is easy. Maybe even necessary.. Author is a giant faggot, it seems. But is his writing any good? Well, it's average. So it's bad enough.
Homosexuality, fucking anything and everything, gender pick-and-choosies are pushed as the new normals of the near future. You seriously wanna sell my that in 2 decades the only technological difference from 2020 is holograms or 3D, audiovisual projections? Lazy! The main character is a not metrosexual, not effeminate, but a joke of a human, who'd go random gay sex in favor of drugs to cope with his boss's death. Woah. Corporatism sure got these guys by the balls. Does this cunt have balls? The boss whom with he's spent more time with than his girlfriend. The one supposedly dearly loves and lies to, because that's how much he loves her, how much character this 'man' has. Yeah, okay. It doesn't read like a journalistic, suspense, thriller thing, no; nor like a cyberpunk anything, since in the third I'd done of it, there has been nothing that doesn't already exist on probably even 2015 Earth. It reads like an subtle advertizement for EatZeBugz, and globalhomo, and schizo marxist bullshit.
Stick to writing what you know, fucker. The concept's exploration is scarcely more than 1⸺3 pages. The rest is meh. Not quite for women. Certainly not for any man by my definition. And the award it'd won? Blacklist all associated titles and authors. Whole does not coalesce.

Siegfried KnappeM1.00
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

The second and last book by this author. Like the first, it is autobiographical. About half to a third are childhood moments, perhaps aged ~9⸺12, the other at when an young adult or age is not to be extracted. Angain it is extremely descriptively dense. Unlike it though, adjacent chapters/sections are loosely connected, whereas none of the stories are. There is a general progression of time from cover to cover. It is a collection of stories, were it not by now apparent. Sometimes an interlude, sometimes a skit, sometimes a subject change, sometime a big, fat conjunction, the longer stories are least effect. I don't like it, them, gauging what the author sees as important, as relevant is hard. Of course, frequency of occurances or mentions of thing reveal it postfactum. The subdivisioned stories tenuously prolonged, with one running to 60, maybe 10⸺15 of the whole, whereas stories may be 5e2⸺2e3 words. That there is little plot in most children's lives to begin start off, is true, and so it is for 20. century, quiet, shy, introverted, Jewish-Polish ones. The lack doesn't devalue this, nor does that of details, temporal unidirectionality. However, like hard drugs, you can only do so much of the good stuff. It is as heady, sprightly, intense as the first book. Translations of these two would, if done well, be very valuable to any language learner, enjoyer, afficionado. However, traversing this beautiful, literary bracken is tiring. For it is no botanical garden, park, palacial garden. In spite of the non-repetition, courtesy of the translatior, the constant novelty and meaning, idea, aesthetic, ??? densities without a plot's throughline can tucker a reader (like me) out. One story one beyond tedious.

Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska (tr.)1.00
Bright Lights, Big City

The second and last book by this author. Like the first, it is autobiographical. About half to a third are childhood moments, perhaps aged ~9⸺12, the other at when an young adult or age is not to be extracted. Angain it is extremely descriptively dense. Unlike it though, adjacent chapters/sections are loosely connected, whereas none of the stories are. There is a general progression of time from cover to cover. It is a collection of stories, were it not by now apparent. Sometimes an interlude, sometimes a skit, sometimes a subject change, sometime a big, fat conjunction, the longer stories are least effect. I don't like it, them, gauging what the author sees as important, as relevant is hard. Of course, frequency of occurances or mentions of thing reveal it postfactum. The subdivisioned stories tenuously prolonged, with one running to 60, maybe 10⸺15 of the whole, whereas stories may be 5e2⸺2e3 words. That there is little plot in most children's lives to begin start off, is true, and so it is for 20. century, quiet, shy, introverted, Jewish-Polish ones. The lack doesn't devalue this, nor does that of details, temporal unidirectionality. However, like hard drugs, you can only do so much of the good stuff. It is as heady, sprightly, intense as the first book. Translations of these two would, if done well, be very valuable to any language learner, enjoyer, afficionado. However, traversing this beautiful, literary bracken is tiring. For it is no botanical garden, park, palacial garden. In spite of the non-repetition, courtesy of the translatior, the constant novelty and meaning, idea, aesthetic, ??? densities without a plot's throughline can tucker a reader (like me) out. One story one beyond tedious.

Jay McInerny1.00
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

I'd started reading this in 2018⸺19. Remember it being good enough to continue reading, but then le life happened. I recently deleted old files from my disused Kindle, making sure add to the booklog anything worth (re)checking out. It's a book on anathropological psychology, an interesting topic. Any field appended with that adjective can be, and many have been (say, 'ethnomathetmatics', ffs), infiltrated by pseudointellectual, slippery, tricky charlatans to preach their poison. It being both (sub)field-irrelevant and ideological. I'd read a few pages during a waiting and was pleasantly surprised, but didn't recall anything, so I'm redoing it wholly, and paying attenting.

After about half the book, my dude goes on Jew taint licking spree to demonstrate preceding chapters' ideas or statements. Fucking disgusting. I'm listen at over 4x speed. This is like 4⸺5 chapters of just Jewiness. Dude's aware supposedly, maybe somebody told him, of much about himself⸻, Well, not it the moment. Only 20⸺30 years later when writing a fucking book. Then he starts talking about religion and make stupid claims, that don't deserve hearing.
tldr; read the first half of this.

Robert TriverskMg0.68
The Medical Detectives: Volume I

I'd started reading this in 2018⸺19. Remember it being good enough to continue reading, but then le life happened. I recently deleted old files from my disused Kindle, making sure add to the booklog anything worth (re)checking out. It's a book on anathropological psychology, an interesting topic. Any field appended with that adjective can be, and many have been (say, 'ethnomathetmatics', ffs), infiltrated by pseudointellectual, slippery, tricky charlatans to preach their poison. It being both (sub)field-irrelevant and ideological. I'd read a few pages during a waiting and was pleasantly surprised, but didn't recall anything, so I'm redoing it wholly, and paying attenting.

After about half the book, my dude goes on Jew taint licking spree to demonstrate preceding chapters' ideas or statements. Fucking disgusting. I'm listen at over 4x speed. This is like 4⸺5 chapters of just Jewiness. Dude's aware supposedly, maybe somebody told him, of much about himself⸻, Well, not it the moment. Only 20⸺30 years later when writing a fucking book. Then he starts talking about religion and make stupid claims, that don't deserve hearing.
tldr; read the first half of this.

Berton RouechéM1.00
Time Shelter

A meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two).

Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (tr.)✓M1.00
Brutalities: A Love Story

A meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two).

Margo Steinesg0.01
The Book of Form and Emptiness

A meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two).

Ruth Ozekib0.04
Hunting Ghislaine

An detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible.

John SweeneyM1.00
Thrawn: 1 - Heir to the Empire

An detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible.

Timothy Zahnaw0.01
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

An detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible.

Tyson Yunkaportabawg0.01
Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator

An detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible.

Joseph Scott Morganm1.00
Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back

An detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible.

Sarah RansomeM1.00
Death by Water

Another (semi-?)autobiographical novel by this author. Another snooze. Everything said by characters, everything described by the author leaves me wondering⸻why didn't he expand that and why didn't he say the whole thing, why obfuscate? It's neither coy, nor subtle. If this is Japanese mores or Confucianism again, it's still inacceptable, because it doesn't make for any better reading. Just like being retarded doesn't grand you compensatory points for admission to MIT. I gave it 5%, and literally less than a page's worth occured⸻it's slow and without payoff.

Kenzaburo Oebm0.05
Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History

Christian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world.

John Dicksonagf0.11
The Deep Sky

Christian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world.

Yume Kitaseiw0.02
The Cure for Loneliness: How to Feel Connected and Escape Isolation

Christian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world.

Bill Howattwgf0.21
The Sun Walks Down

Christian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world.

Fiona McFarlaneagw0.03
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Christian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world.

Elisabeth Tova Baileyam0.15
Thrilled to Death: How the Endless Pursuit of Pleasure Is Leaving Us Numb

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

Land of the Deviant

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

Unholy Alliance: The Agenda Iran, Russia, and Jihadists Share for Conquering the World

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies

Over 36: Your anhedonia is very severe and needs immediate professional help.

Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like

The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy

A thorough review of⸻wouldn't you know it⸻Marxists' textual records. Gotta love a cult, eh? The compensatory, snuck-in hahas about their liability for easily over a third of a billion deaths does not counterbalance the length and aridity of the book. Which is mostly due, I think, to the repetitious prolixity and (failed) attempts at being high-brow, erudite, prescient, knowledgeable, and the (successful) ones of tacit plagiarism of both ideas and texts. An exhaustive ideology need be complex, or rather, heavily convoluted, and or taken as gospel⸻this is why they are all victims be about as susceptible to reason and or objective truth as flat-Earthers or religionists. Well-researched, but, then again, the guy did devote more than a decade of his life to this. I'd like to hope I'm not following in him or James A. Lindsay in overtreading old ground. Despite it being still very, very relevant.

Daniel KalderM1.00
Alien: The Rage War - 1: Predator: Incursion

A short triology involving at least three loci and races, and, for me, too many characters. Tim Lebbon has had one hit and one big-ish miss according the booklog. This is the first of a trilogy that I won't be giving the time of day. It is of the alien-predator crossover universe. I'm actually uncertain whether they coexist canonically. Regardless, the novel, and hence probably series, has problems. Namely insufficient care in dealing with all 3⸺4 scenarios: human, human near pedator, human near alien, android/synth. It reads like a generic, that is, mediocre scifi. None of atmosphere of the better Alien franchise novels, that I have read. For sure, not all are good. But this wasn't compelling. I gave it nearly half, and it's just meh. Neither of the franchises deserves to be this lukewarm.

Tim Lebbonm0.42
What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Rather eloquoently worded, especially so for the more technically or scientifically disposed of humans. Short and enjoyable, does not dwell or bore, snappy.

Erwin SchrödingerMk1.00
My View of the World

A biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his Autobiographical Sketches, wherein he (correctly) opines that 'chronological reports are [negative qualifier]', here Gribbin and his wife take the exact opposite approach. It's dry. I don't think any biographical account, however lachs, cannot be. He goes through 600 years of physics. Without the pedagogical ability of somebody grasped or somebody taught the matter, it's clumsy. Also, mucho minus points for le protec da shilldren

John Gribbinmw0.28
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

A biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his Autobiographical Sketches, wherein he (correctly) opines that 'chronological reports are [negative qualifier]', here Gribbin and his wife take the exact opposite approach. It's dry. I don't think any biographical account, however lachs, cannot be. He goes through 600 years of physics. Without the pedagogical ability of somebody grasped or somebody taught the matter, it's clumsy. Also, mucho minus points for le protec da shilldren

Gino Segre, Bettina HoerlinamM1.00
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

A biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his Autobiographical Sketches, wherein he (correctly) opines that 'chronological reports are [negative qualifier]', here Gribbin and his wife take the exact opposite approach. It's dry. I don't think any biographical account, however lachs, cannot be. He goes through 600 years of physics. Without the pedagogical ability of somebody grasped or somebody taught the matter, it's clumsy. Also, mucho minus points for le protec da shilldren

Azar Nafisiwb♀0.11
The Perennial Philosophy

A pre-new-age try-hard cult-y/guru book about Hinduism and Bhuddism by a English fiction writer. It's bad. Has: absolutism, dogmatism and orthodoxy, and moral authoritarianism/grandstanding.

Aldous HuxleyW0.04
Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept Its Feet

A giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit.

John Bemelmans MarcianoWaf0.02
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

A giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit.

Stephen Groszm0.90
The Tao of Pooh

A giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit.

Benjamin Hoffaw0.19
Gross out

Duncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters.

Duncan Ralstonw0.12
In the Belly of the Beast

Duncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters.

Jack Henry AbbottmGf0.12
The Death Shift

Duncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters.

Peter Elkindmb0.37
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us

Duncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters.

Robert D. HareMkm1.00
The Art of Love

Duncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters.

Ovid, Rolfe Humphries (tr.)BmM0.19
The Book Eaters

A Texan-Hong Kong(ian?)-Yorkshire female with poor literary taste debuts with a 'gothic fantasy'. The book is certainly not gothic in the classical sense; is at best tainted by that movement, but isn't dominated by it. No, it's just a 'yes, but what if X?' sort of novel. Immediately two things are very annoying⸻a focus on class- or caste-based society and the vocabulary used, which is badly silly⸻like a child trying to ram a joke in a square hole⸻because the premise allows it (but doesn't require it!). That it's a gynocentric, female-protagonisted story don't help any. Trash author, trash, story, trash world.

Sunyi Deana0.08
The Book That Wouldn't Burn

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

The Suicide Club

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

The Suicide Club

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

Root Fractures

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

Comemadre

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

The Road to Roswell

Another incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like

On Revolution

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Hannah ArendtmbM?0.48
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Nicola Gardinimk0.88
Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Steven Pressfieldkm0.88
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Emmanuel Carrèrem1.00
70 Minutes in Hell

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Charles BukowskiM1.00
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

David Pietruszabm0.16
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

While this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion).

Terry Bisson?0.08
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Overanalyzing, overinterpreting, dense. Exhausting. Perhaps I should approach his writing chronologically, or very otherwise.

Mark Fisherbw?0.28
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

Overanalyzing, overinterpreting, dense. Exhausting. Perhaps I should approach his writing chronologically, or very otherwise.

Josh CookG0.04
Portrait of a Murderer

Too social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman?

Anne Meredith, Anthony Gilberta0.02
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Too social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman?

Bill CleggmMa♀0.70
The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

Too social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman?

Javier Blas, Jack FarchyM✓1.00
The Doubter's Companion: The Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Other than being so stupid so to not see the farce that Hegel and, more so, all of is ideas are, and consistant whining about 'corporatism', this be an attempt at updating

John Ralston SaulgfMm0.11
Hey Joe

Other than being so stupid so to not see the farce that Hegel and, more so, all of is ideas are, and consistant whining about 'corporatism', this be an attempt at updating

Ben Neihartm0.16
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Other than being so stupid so to not see the farce that Hegel and, more so, all of is ideas are, and consistant whining about 'corporatism', this be an attempt at updating

Edward Humeskmb0.68
Instead

Other than being so stupid so to not see the farce that Hegel and, more so, all of is ideas are, and consistant whining about 'corporatism', this be an attempt at updating

Anthony Witherswg0.13
You Can't Joke About That

Other than being so stupid so to not see the farce that Hegel and, more so, all of is ideas are, and consistant whining about 'corporatism', this be an attempt at updating

Kat Timpfkp0.09
The Creature from Cleveland Depths

Absurdist, satirical, futurist, fast-paced or frantic, dense novella. The author gets whitelisted. Also, like many an author, got the a few key things right about the future. Sadly, nobody listened. Read more, ffs!

Fritz LeiberM1.00
The Creature from Beyond Infinity

Absurdist, satirical, futurist, fast-paced or frantic, dense novella. The author gets whitelisted. Also, like many an author, got the a few key things right about the future. Sadly, nobody listened. Read more, ffs!

Henry Kuttnerwp0.03
Buried Secrets

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Edward HumesbmM1.00
Burned

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Edward HumesbmM1.00
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Heather Berggf0.01
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Philip K. DickM✓1.00
The House That Cheese Built

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Miguel A. Leala0.06
Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path

At 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness.
The only good aspect is that it's not actively bad, and that E.H. does good investigative work. He's even a Pulitzer. I'll spin the others too, since none are about already commit to book subjects. I guess, reading this guy, you can't or shouldn't expect lurid titillation.

Craig R. Smith, Braden Wrightfga0.01
Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery

A rather room-temperature defence or support or argument for capitalism.

Joehn Muellermk0.20
The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World

A rather room-temperature defence or support or argument for capitalism.

Brian A. WongG0.01
Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

David BenatarmM0.85
True Crime Case Histories: 1

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 2

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 3

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 4

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 5

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 6

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
Bad Pharma

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Ben GoldacrekbmM0.82
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Nicholas A. BasbanesmBM0.65
Eaters of the Dead

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Michael CrichtonMm1.00
Congo

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Michael Crichtonmp0.55
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

David SatterM1.00
Nagasaki

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Susan Southard♀m0.11
Dear Leader

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jang Jin-sungM1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 7

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 8

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Crime Case Histories: 9

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Jason NealMm1.00
True Story

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Michael FinkelmbM0.84
The Art Thief

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Michael FinkelMm1.00
Sovietistan

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Erika Fatland, Kari Dickson (tr.)Mm0.94
The Book of Fritz Leiber

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Fritz Leibermb0.53
Early Light

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (tr.), Donald Keene (tr.)am0.28
The Art of the Heist

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Myles Connor Jr.a0.02
Hitler's Art Thief

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Susan RonaldbmB0.48
The Perfect Girlfriend

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Haley Smithpam0.22
Such a Lovely Couple

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Haley Smithm0.41
Quozl

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Alan Dean Fosterma0.04
Doll House

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

John Huntam0.03
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Dexter Tiff RobertsM1.00
The Third Twin

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Ken Follettmb0.04
A Plague on Both Your Houses

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Robert Littellam0.07
Goodbye, Things

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Fumio Sasakia0.10
The Boy Who Played with Fusion

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Tom Clynesam0.21
Eye of the Needle

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Ken Follettma0.05
Paper Money

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Ken FollettmM0.43
Bad Science

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Ben GoldacreMk1.00
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Robert M. PirsigaA0.03
The Border

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Erika FatlandmaAkM0.65
The Last Kind Words Saloon

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Larry McMurtrya0.03
X-Files: 1 - Trust No One

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.)m0.85
7 Habits of Highly Defective People: And Other Bestsellers That Won't Go Away

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Cathy Crimmins, Thomas Maederm0.76
X-Files: 2 - The Truth Is out There

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.)am0.52
Just My Type

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Simon GarfieldmM1.00
White Line Fever

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Lemmy, Janiss GarzaM0.98
X-Files: 3 - Secret Agendas

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.)ma0.37
Fatal Forecast

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Michael Tougiasm0.65
How Evil Are Politicians: Essays on Demagoguery

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Bryan Caplankgm0.20
Nothing but the Rain

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Naomi SalmanA0.01
The Man Who Wasn't There

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Anil Ananthaswamyak0.08
A Preparation for Death

Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:

As one 5-year-old American boy noted in response to his mother’s explanation that some parents circumcised their sons because theyworried that if they didn’t, their boys wouldn’t keep clean: “Well, that’s dumb, Mom!! What are they gonna do? Cut their butts off, too?!”

Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind.

Greg Baxter✔✓1.00
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases

Why, yes, am I going to be a patronizing, motherly, pearl-clutching, boring cunt. How could you tell? Ffs.

Ann Ruleam0.31
Fatal

Why, yes, am I going to be a patronizing, motherly, pearl-clutching, boring cunt. How could you tell? Ffs.

Harold Schechtermb1.00
Irish Fairy Tales

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

William Butler YeatsaA0.01
When She Was Bad

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

Patricia PearsonMm1.00
All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

Sam Carrap♀0.25
The Crime of Sheila McGough

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

Janet MalcolmBb0.18
A Brief History of Anxiety

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

Patricia Pearsonfgw0.04
Looks Can Kill

Classism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate.

Riam Shammaa, Patricia PearsonMmk1.00
For When Everything Is Burning

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

Scott EilerskMm0.92
Feeling "Blah"?

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

Tanith CareyKm♀0.74
Renegade at Heart

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

Lorenzo Lamas, Jeff LenburgmpM1.00
A Bad Woman

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

James M. Cainbm0.66
High

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

Erika FatlandmabM0.34
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

William Butler YeatsAa0.06
Severance

Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over.

Ling Maa0.02
To Cook a Bear

Digusting religious text. Doesn't include, of course, the atrocities commit by the papistry, the destruction of yet another culture and tradition, and paints them, roughly, as good.

Mikael Niemi, Deborah Bragan-Turner (tr.)agf0.04
The Book of Five Rings

For once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely.

Miyamoto MusashimM1.00
A River in Darkness

For once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely.

Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi (tr.), Martin Brown (tr.)Mm1.00
The Girl with Seven Names

For once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely.

Hyeonseo Lee, David Johnm♀a0.60
Alien: Prototype

The Alien franchise is one of the few pieces of cinematic-turned-literary media, that features a fully formed, human, le strong, likable female protagonist. Somehow this was perverted into every member in the series, irrelevant of medium, having at least one such character, only much more scuffed. Vasquez in Aliens was such a perversion, for example. Likewise with the 'They mostly come out at night. Mostly.'-girl and Ripley's daughter, if going by the main trilogy of movies. This, on the other hand, is a grotesque. The story begins with a hook in the form of cold betrayal⸻assassination for the purpose of robbery, done convertly over 18 months. Little miss perfect is presented as a spy, martial artist, and pirate. I'm sure she was a 5.0 GPA and during her 4 doctorates. Any negatives? Nope. Tim-o had the balls to make her a graceous cunt by not killing the people she'd fucked while they are sleeping. Woah. Timmy's getting blacklisted. Terrible hook, because this is a main character, not a deplorable (or comedic respite) to be food for xenomorphs.

Tim Waggoneraw0.04
Alien: Bug Hunt

Too many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike.

V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.)ma0.54
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Too many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike.

Daniel FinkelsteinJa0.01
Marching Powder

Too many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike.

Rusty YoungmM1.00
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Nice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading.

Edwin LefevreM1.00
Ways of Escape

Nice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading.

Graham Greenemb?0.10
Often I Am Happy

Nice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading.

Jens Christian GrøndahlbB0.08
Playing House

Nice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading.

Patricia PearsonM1.00
Hello, Shadowlands

Established in South-Eastern Asia, comfortably living journo decides to write a book about drugaroos. My abook had 15⸺20-minute afterword, padding the preceeding material some. It nevertheless doesn't fit the terminating, Vietnamese chapter about revenging dogs' being eaten around February, an rough equivalent of entering the new year with a clean moral slate or (successfully) bribing relevant local gods. The rest of the book ostensibly and casually revolves around drugs⸻how to acquire, use, purify, and dilute them, without the interesting me technicalities. That would have mightily elevated this about its peers. It've'en what Shulgin's PIHKAL was, when I first saw it around 2010.

Patrick WinnM1.00
Robert Hunter: 13 - The Death Watcher

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Chris CartermM1.00
The Frost Fair

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Edward Marstonbm0.21
When She Was Bad

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Patricia PearsonMm♀1.00
Playing with Fire

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

John Glattm1.00
What's Eating the Universe?

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Paul DavieskK1.00
Project UnLonely

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Jeremy Nobelfg0.06
Tiananmen Square

Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens.

Lai Wena0.02
Putin's People

Has a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side.

Catherine BeltonMmg1.00
Opening Heaven's Door

Has a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side.

Patricia Pearsonab0.04
The Witchstone

Has a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side.

Henry H. Neffba0.08
Gollitok

A bleak-ish, alternative history attempt at horror and or suspense. The world-building is, at a glance, aluring. Then one starts inquiring after this and that, and much remains unanswered. The world is insufficiently (or just too slowly, only when plot-abutting) exposed. The plot is tied to exploration. The writing is passable, not once exceptional or even impressive. Andrew has to work on his craft, because the delivery is what most is missing herefrom.

Andrew Najbergm1.00
The Culture of Narcissism

Missing the point, as if. Focused on wholly irrelevant inanities too often, and, worse, is openly Marxist, with an agenda. This facilitates craving the corpse, at least.

Christopher Laschgfw0.30
The Mobius Door

Multiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans.

Andrew Najbergwm?0.05
A World Without Men: An Analysis of an All-Female Economy

Multiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans.

Aaron ClareykmM1.00
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Multiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans.

Ramani Durvasulamw0.29
Sawfish

Multiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans.

Rick Cheslerm0.47
The Bookshop Woman

Multiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans.

Nanako Hanada, Cat Anderson (tr.)♀A0.09
Horror Movie

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Paul TremblayM1.00
Believe Me

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Patricia PearsonM1.13
Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Benjamin W. Deckermk1.00
Some Girls

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Jillian Laurenmp0.40
I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Michael Molchergpm0.31
How to Steal a Presidential Election

A compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?).

Lawrence Lessigbm0.50
Feeling Good

I nice book by somebody dealing with the depressed, who wishes to both inform the general populace and to throw something afloat to those actively yet painfully slowly drowning. Contained tried and tested methods for dealing with biases, depression, and others.

David D. BurnsMm0.82
Just Go

I nice book by somebody dealing with the depressed, who wishes to both inform the general populace and to throw something afloat to those actively yet painfully slowly drowning. Contained tried and tested methods for dealing with biases, depression, and others.

Drew Binskypm 0.08
Lost Connections

Book initializes with a boy suffering from depression. Which gets 'treated' with with Zoloft. Ineffectually and inconclusively. After talk with some 'experts', reading some books and talking to their authors, and reading some research, he understands all is not well and clear. Not with him, nor any other depressed person. What is to be done? Learn more. My dude is 47 and good took his time compiling this book's contents. Expect to discover why pharmaceutical companies shill these dysfunctional drugs, the nine reasons why depression exists, and what you can do about it.

Johann HariMm0.12
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

Slightly annoying due to the author's insistence upon upkeeping his faith and religion. Otherwire a collection of fewer than 10 people's writings from 1300⸺1450. Very non-spectacular and ordinary. The sources themselves would have been a more interesting ot lively read.

Anthony Balema0.27
The Real North Korea

A(n intellectually) honest person, who has well studied the subject write what he has learned, frequently stating sources. The book attempts to provide both sides of events from Korea was one until 2013, the publication year.

Andrei Lankov✓M1.00
Warlock

After my depression allayed, I got back to this book. Somehow I'd read 3⸺4 chapters of it without taking notice of: the town, the people, the roles, the plot. Upon restarting it (and paying attention), I must say it is quite the nice Western. All characters have a malleable character and change, be it through alcohol, their emotions or other. All feel like definite real people, living in that that time in that dusty, dusty desert. For atmosphere, this gets a golden star. The story is collected by several of the partakers, who supposedly would have so-called journaled, and is hence somewhat colored. Rather slow to unfold with the happenings of most each day retold in too much detail, without them at the time seeming to matter much to the whole. A very nice portrayal of (Western) American nature or temperament. I appreciate the spread out importance of characters, more so making hearty characters of Warlock and Bright City. At nigh 2e5 words, it has some mighty heft and trimming (down to, say, 1.5e5) would have well goosed its the suspense-release curve, which stagnates between going-ons, rather than at times poorly emulating The Bold and the Beautiful. The ending is rather meek, but then the whole is so it's not that bad. This isn't, nor was it trying to be the Tombstone movie.

Oakley Hall✓M1.07
All the Worst Humans

For a convert life/how-to/something book, much detail, fuck, much information are deficient. Keeping one's allies, colleagues, and others under wraps is one understandable thing, forgoing information, be it fluff or not, is another detestable one. Reads rather as a magazine article.

Phil ElwoodMm1.00
Semicolon

Unfortunately the book while having some nice parts becomes bogged down into history which could have been made palatable, but was not.

Cecelia WatsonMm0.33
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

Reads more like a folksy collection of (bad) short stories or rather try-hard fables than anything remotely Sinitic.

Lu Xunwb0.02
Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Few stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience.

Thomas LigottiMm1.00
Freiheit pur

Few stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience.

Horst Stowasser?0.03
Logically Fallacious

Few stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience.

Bo Bennett0.15
The Illuminatus!: 2 - The Golden Apple

Few stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience.

Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea✔✔✔0.68
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

John KoenigM✓a0.65
The Dawn of Everything

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

David Graeber, David Wengrow✓M0.58
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Neil Howe0.01
Timeline

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Michael Crichton0.01
The Man Who Laughs

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Victor Hugo0.10
A River in Darkness

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi (tr.), Martin Brown (tr.)0.02
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.)0.01
Long Island

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Colm Toibin0.01
Expert Political Judgment

Just like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think Nah, nobody would use such a word. Some of these are new, other⸻forgotten. Fans of linguistics will like this. The interstitial longs I find grating for their relation to emotion. Though none of these (to my knowledge and experience) exist or have existed outside these covers, they are nonetheless beautiful and if you think/believe it is use the defines a language, you'll many opportunities to describe to stupid people why these mean what they do, how they are to be used, and where they stem from. Great idea for a book. I'd hope that John has used at least one elsewhere in his writings.

Philip E. Tetlock0.01
The Signal and the Noise

Nice statistics, rule-of-thumb type book. Boring at times, like the baseball chapter.

Nate SilverMb0.11
The True Believer

Most of the book is on the money. I take issue with the anti-individualist and collectivist stance espoused in chapter 33. I would wonder how much hindsight is benefiting me. Individualism presently most prominates in the North American colonies, what is to become the United States. It has been expressed in continental Europe, all members of Britain and its overseas colonies, Russia, and others. The long-standing (1500+ years) feudalism of Europe (including Scandinavia, Britain) and Asia is well-documented. Its people were rarely content, let alone happy. I'm not advocating for hermeticism of all. But it would seem to be that that is what the author sees himself to be up against. Claiming that nationalism, or any similar flocking under a loosely defined common banner, is for the wider good of the same, is very misguided. Some of 35 too is in great error.
Gotta hand it to him for noticing that:

Boredom accounts for the almost invariable presence of spinsters and middle-aged women at the birth of mass movements.

Eric Hoffer✓M0.70
A Movie Making Nerd

Really? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem.

James Rolfe, Robyn Schelenz0.01
I'm Just Here for the Food

Really? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem.

Alton Brown0.01
Robert Hunter: 14 - The Silver Snarling Trumpet

Really? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem.

Chris Carter0.05
? Cannot be right._

Really? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem.

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