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the prose quality is crazy inconsistent but this book is sooo atmospheric tlga

danton remoto u have to stop your prose too buttery smooth your imagery so precise they’ll k33l u danton remoto

“There is nothing here, really, in this city and in this country except a big, black hole that sucked you in and drowned you in its thick ooze of oil. I wish I could go away, but to where?”

I’m reading this less like a novel and more like a nonfiction short story collection

I just finished Part 1, where the narrator's childhood ends and he goes into adolescence. I relate to some of his experiences: playing with neighbors, going to school with a wide playground, graduating valedictorian of my class and consistently placing First Honors in elementary, and finally moving away from the place I grew up in. I think I'm reading about my own childhood.