Open review Place Becomes Voice
Hurricane Season
Place Becomes Voice
Hurricane Season takes you and shakes you, it blacks out everything happening in your life and in the room around you, and it pushes you under wate...
Aug 4
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Open review The Machine is God is Today
Zero K a novel
The Machine is God is Today
Don DeLillo’s Zero K is about a miracle. Our protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, journeys to Central Asia, where his billionaire father, Ross, has finan...
Aug 4
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Open review Anti-Ferrante
The Copenhagen Trilogy Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Anti-Ferrante
I had brought the Copenhagen Trilogy on a trip to Thailand in the hopes of recreating the experience I had reading Ferrante's Neapolitan novels as ...
Aug 4
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Open review To please the child, to paint the rose, / The gardener of the World, he goes.
Klara and the Sun : A novel
To please the child, to paint the rose, / The gardener of the World, he goes.
Klara and the Sun (2021) is a book that seems tailor-made for the current zeitgeist. As it concerns robot companions for children, it is a natural ...
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Open review INQUIRY ON HABIT-FORMING PROXIES
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
INQUIRY ON HABIT-FORMING PROXIES
In this book Duchamp admits that he only spent about 2 hours a day (max) working on his Large Glass. He complains that artists are simply too produ...
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Open review My Archive No. 8: The Easter Parade
The Easter parade
My Archive No. 8: The Easter Parade
My way of approaching literature is essentially and at its heart quietist. I don't read for entertainment, generally, even if I am entertained.
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Open review rAIcist
I, Robot
rAIcist
unfortunately every time a human character was being racist against a robot i was pretty much in total agreement so this is probably not for me... ...
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Open review robert cohn
The Sun Also Rises
robert cohn
one of the great simps of literature. always out of place, always in a mood.
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Open review when you LARP as Catholic
Lost Lambs
when you LARP as Catholic
Read over July 4th weekend but finally got this from OpenLibrary yay! I wrote a review when this was still fresh but sadly it is lost but I will tr...
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Open review Everything gets worse all the time
Unknown Book
Everything gets worse all the time
Almost all of us have grown familiar with a certain post-pandemic malaise, where "Netflix, drugs, and delivery services have turned the twenty-firs...
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Open review Queer Review (based)
Cities of the red night
Queer Review (based)
Cities of the Red Night is the feverish wet dream of a dying teenager who has some really screwed up fetishes. William S Burroughs was a gay paedop...
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Open review It’s called dialectrics, sweaty
The arcades project
It’s called dialectrics, sweaty
“Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right fro...
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Open review Inside snapshot into the vaccine race
Polio: An American Story
Inside snapshot into the vaccine race
This book paints a pretty vivid picture of the race for a polio vaccine particularly with the competition between researchers to find a safe, effec...
Aug 2
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Open review Autonomy as the Basis of Dignity
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Autonomy as the Basis of Dignity
I read Meditations by Aurelius about a decade ago, before the bastard Ryan Holiday ruined all discussion around Stoicism. Firsts are always special...
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Open review He that hath ears to hear, let him hear
Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream of Twenty Geese
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear
Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream of Twenty Geese (2020), like many of the most interesting works of the 21st century, was published pseudonymo...
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Open review sorrows of wasting time
The sorrows of satan: or, The strange experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, millionaire, a romance.
sorrows of wasting time
the author didn't live up to my expectations TWICE. knowing very little about the book i got to reading.
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Open review There isn't a postman in this
The postman always rings twice
There isn't a postman in this
Edmund Wilson said this book was at the risk of being 'unintentionally funny' (or something like that). I agree, a lot of comedies are premised on ...
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Open review we have to go bvck
Orality and Literacy
we have to go bvck
millman parry... i wish he stuck more to the phenomenological character of oral cultures, his classical digressions with homer were easily the best...
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Open review retrospective
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
retrospective
this was my first favorite book that wasn't "for young adults" and it will always have a special place in my heart for showing me that books could ...
Jul 31
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Open review Mark Fisher's Ghosts 
The shining
Mark Fisher's Ghosts
Not too long ago I read @Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher which contains an excellent essay about The Shining. Very typical of Mark Fisher his idea...
Jul 30
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Open review The Future, Too Soon
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc: J. Henry Waugh, prop.
The Future, Too Soon
J. Henry Waugh invented Out Of The Park Baseball 30 years early.
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Open review Smells of Mahogany 
The street of crocodiles
Smells of Mahogany
The prose is deep and rich – it's influence clear from the first story. Schultz' abillity to weld the mudane with the sacred, secret, and esoteric ...
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Open review A dark, melancholic tale.
Four Spent the Day Together
A dark, melancholic tale.
Read from July 7th - July 18th, 2026 Kraus' genre blend of auto-fiction and true crime was a very captivating and intriguing read. I am very glad t...
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Open review Those who revolt, teach
On guerrilla warfare.
Those who revolt, teach
The Chairman's slim treatise on guerrilla warfare has been sitting on my shelf for many years, purchased back as an edgy teen. It's humbling and aw...
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