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I finally finished Catch-22 today, easily in my personal favorites.
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Just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I really enjoyed it, though it was horny as hell. Also near the end we get this big explanation of some of the central mysteries, and while I get why it's necessary, it's a weird choice for a six hundred-page novel to suddenly have a character just reveal stuff I've been wondering about the entire time thirty pages from the end. Loved the ideas presented, though. More than anything, it really inspired me to just think about things, related to the novel both directly and tangentially. I'm the kind of guy who's constantly sifting through ideas for stories from the media I consume, and I feel like this book had me much more focused on questions and themes than premises in that regard, which is nice.
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Sep 8, 2019 21:41
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I'm in the middle of Breakfast of Champions and this reminded me I need to get back to it.
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Oct 10, 2019 19:16
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Finally finished Breakfast of Champions. Liked it, but it took a while to come together for me, probably not until Vonnegut himself appears. From that point on it blitzed forward, though. The Karabekian speech is probably my favorite part of the book.
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Nov 26, 2019 04:27
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Just finished my second Haruki Murakami novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I was less engaged with the overall happenings of the plot than in the previous Murakami novel I read (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle), probably because I was enamored with the overall dreamlike style of that book, but once the story actually becomes a little more explicit about what is happening I was able to get a lot more out of it. Murakami's opaqueness is something I find a little frustrating and distancing in the moment as a reader, but really rewarding once I actually sit down and examine the story. Might have to re-read it to really understand it, but the note it ends on specifically was really fascinating.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:14
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Taeke posted:Pratchett is cool because he'll write about a situation that seems totally monkeycheese lolrandom at first glance but it'll make total sense, have depth and meaning and pathos and make you laugh and cry. The only Pratchett setup that I can think of that seems kinda monkeycheese in hindsight is the mall in Reaper Man, and the other half of that book is so good that doesn't even end up mattering to its overall quality e: I haven't read Reaper Man in forever though so maybe I'd have a new appreciation for it now
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Dec 12, 2023 15:41
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Also, jesus christ, did I seriously just now realize that subplot is an extended reference to Dawn of the Dead?
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Dec 12, 2023 15:45
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just finished The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic by Sir Terry Pratchett. I am now a dozen pages into Equal Rites. This is going to consume the next few months of my life, won't it? Months?
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