The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)
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Read between August 22, 2022 - November 26, 2023
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An alcoholic uncle lived there when they were little, veteran of some other war, their father’s older brother.
Jerome
An example of a phrase construction that makes reading Gibson a bit harder to read.
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They’d started out as a church, or in a church, not liking anyone being gay or getting abortions or using birth control. Protesting military funerals, which was a thing. Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God’s satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.
Jerome
This is gold.
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“Who called you?” Burton asked, seated behind Tommy, in the Faraday cage where they put prisoners. “State AI. Satellite noticed the vehicle hadn’t moved for two hours. Also flagged your property for unusual drone activity, but I told ’em that was you and your friends playing games.”
Jerome
State AI: interesting