Status Updates From Orient Express

Great prose stylist but at times a bit hard to follow.

The obsession with race is really insane to me lol.

Hope dashed

Beautiful moment where he starts to explore the theology and psychology of confession and then lets his priest and novelist destroy the Doctor’s desire to confess without providing any real introspection at all. Absolutely brilliant.

Very cinematic scenes.

Slow start, somewhat clumsy, but could be I’m not used to his style. But the story has now taken on steam chop-choo!