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There was a line we read last night that made me laugh. Something about going to the river with your girl to spoon and if you were lucky you'd get to fork.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
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I feel like every Lovecraft story is basically "Oh man you should have seen this thing it was crazy I can't even describe it it was so queer you had to be there just trust me".
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Big Lethem fan, but his last few novels haven't interested me too much. I'm excited to dive into this one because A. The detective genre is vintage Lethem, and B. Los Angeles is a nice change of scenery for a guy who seems to forget the world outside of Brooklyn pretty regularly.
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I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Fortress of Solitude was the only one i really liked. Tried a couple others but was bored. But yes this sounds promising.
I think we've had this conversation before. Motherless, Brooklyn and Gun, With Occasional Music are also among my favorites (both detective novels. both a Lethem-esque combo of invention and homage.)
His essays are where it's really at for me. The Beards single-handedly opened up my mind to a now favorite genre of music, and it's not even really an essay about music at all.
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I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The atmopshere in that one immediately hit me, and I couldn't put it down. It's both hardboiled and cartoony at the same time.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The atmopshere in that one immediately hit me, and I couldn't put it down. It's both hardboiled and cartoony at the same time.
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Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they attempt to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like guards. Desperate to secure their next fix, they hatch a plan that involves convincing one of their mothers to bring the drugs into the prison. But everything about their plot is doomed from the beginning, doomed to end in violence …
Unfolding in a single paragraph, The Hole is a verbal torrent, a prison inside a prison, and an ominous parable about deformed and wretched institutions creating even more deformed and wretched individuals.
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fuck that guy