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!ringbearers OMG! there's 9 of us
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I just read Ficciones by Jorge Borges
Now I'm reading Elementary Particles by
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I love Borges
Good luck with that one
how are you finding it?
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I really loved Borges. So much atmosphere and depth in so few words, not to mention all of the cross-cultural mythology. I feel like I could probably reread it a few more times and pick up on layers I completely missed
I'm actually enjoying Elementary Particles a lot. It's really bleak and nihilistic but his writing is hilarious at times and even heartfelt. In some ways it feels extremely relatable and others a complete attack on my deeply held worldview. I've been reading it at breakneck speed and it's equal parts enjoyment and desire to get through it so I don't have to dwell on it too much. I wanted something challenging and controversial and it's delivering
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Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. Gothic horror set during the Black Death. It's like mediaeval post-apoclypse as Lucifer uses the plague as an opening salvo to besiege Heaven and Earth.
Fair warning, it can veer into pulp horror sometimes.
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Sounds kino, how is it so far?
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Read it, it's really fricking good. I can't shill it enough
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I've seen another dramacel recommend it and it caught my attention.
Can you elaborate a bit more?
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A young girl becomes a schizo and sees angels and demons everywhere. As a suicidal knight and despairing priest follow her they're confronted with the increasingly hostile and supernatural as demons roam the land in the wake of the plague. The writing is fine so far and the plot is easy to get into. It's not imo serious horror at times, more like a pulp gothic novel if that makes sense? There's a subplot about for a bit about dipshit guard forcing people naked so they can make sure they aren't Jews lmao
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Read it neighbor, it's beautiful and terrible
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I read this its really goddarn good
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I really liked The Lesser Dead by him and decided to read a couple of his other books and really liked them, Those Across The River then Between Two Fires and thought they were really good. I tried Blacktongue Thief, but put it down, I couldn't get into it.
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I'm already salty and fat, the weather has been picking up, I'm just trying to score a sheet/vial of acid
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Unironically the best cook book I've read
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thought this was a netflix special (that I thought was cool and then accidentally tuned it out), not a book
checkin it out
May Marsey Ta'aevann rectify our affairs. Marseummarhamna bil Bussy 'azeem.
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Change your name to houellebbq
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Shitty, Amazon zombie novels and a schizo Alice in wonderland retelling that my girlfriend recommended.
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People seem to like like Keith C Blackmore's Mountain Man zombie series, I didn't really get hooked by the short story I read of it, but I do like his fantasy/gladiator series.
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That's literally the series
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Mostly slang related, but fairly interesting. It veers off on some strange tangents at points, but generally an okay read.
May Marsey Ta'aevann rectify our affairs. Marseummarhamna bil Bussy 'azeem.
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Picrel. The writing is pretty shit, but seeing the concepts written as Haskell code helps
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I'm only reading seinen manga rn, so it doesn't count
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I picked up a copy of Kafka on the Shore by Murakami and Oh What a Paradise it Seems by John Cheever at a used book store. I love Murakami and Cheever is one of those American greats that everyone should at least know of if they want to seem intellectual, so I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
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I think I might put down Grave Peril
and try my first Steven King book. I was thinking either 11/22/63 or Mr Mercedes. 
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Just read Blindsight. I really loved it! It felt like if Solaris took place in a plausible vision of our own near future. Pretty scary stuff, and reflects a lot of anxieties that seem more intense in 2024 than they would have in 2007. Nearly all the characters are some flavor of mentally expanded transhuman, but they still feel like real people. I also loved the depiction of ayylmaos, though I took some of the characters' ideas about them as POV statements based on incomplete information, rather than objective facts.
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