What did you read this year?
dominik’s
average rating for
2020
3.6
3.6
Perfect length for me, cool narrative mechanics, questionable in its hack anthropology and overtly racist genealogy takes. I was glad that it didn't go too far into the larger mythos, which made it work quite well as the first Lovecraft work I read. It felt like a well made creature feature mixed with my favorite parts of the video game Bloodborne. Some Deep Stuff
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while it does some amazing work capturing trauma as well as the violence and self destruction of war, societal expectations and masculinity, and while i really enjoyed the premise of a person slipping into a role that had been written and prepared for them for a decade - i felt like TAXI was either purposefully edging the reader with a routine that wasn't meant to go anywhere, or has shortcomings in the way it paints its characters, makes them in
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