To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I didn't read Atomised this week and instead started Confessions of a Mask, which is basically Mishima's autobiography as a closeted teenager during the Shōwa Era Japan, plus weird sadomasochistic tendencies like getting an erection and masturbating to St. Sebastian's painting. I'll finish Houellebecq's “magnus opus” eventually.
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“Civilwarland in Bad Decline” by George Saunders. Unlike most of the other short story collections I've read, I'm not bored to death. The premise of each story is ridiculous too. They all take place at obscure theme parks or companies like an authentic civil war village or a raccoon catch and release company.
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