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alex is 15% done with Call Me Ted
read the classics major episode which was funny. unfortunately i don’t know who this guy is so it’s goodbye for ted
Dec 27, 2025 03:17PM Add a comment
Call Me Ted

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alex is 70% done with Katabasis
i am having some serious beef with the “magic system” of this “world” which at 70% has not been any better explained than it was at 10%. why does peter need eight pages of “furious scribbling” and “algorithms” to think of a fun ted ed video paradox??? probably the first time i’ve laughed reading this book
Aug 28, 2025 10:52PM Add a comment
Katabasis

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alex is 15% done with Katabasis
bro went to cambridge once and never got over it… also citing pascal’s wager as an example of good math is kind of offensive
Aug 28, 2025 08:15AM 1 comment
Katabasis

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alex is 50% done with Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
this is actually quite well-written and even though the contents are immediately predictable by an avid college blog reader it’s very inspiring. in fact it almost moved me to consider alternate career paths until apropos of nothing my mom came over and said to me that i should just be a quant because i am so smart it would be limiting myself to not make a lot of money
Aug 16, 2025 03:28PM Add a comment
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

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alex is 10% done with Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
cracking this open knowing FULL well i am one of the excellent sheep and i will finish this and trot straight off to my tech job
Aug 14, 2025 06:43PM 1 comment
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

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alex is 90% done with The City & the City
DAMN i missed reading books by people who know how to write books
Aug 14, 2025 11:35AM Add a comment
The City & the City

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alex is 80% done with I Am Not Jessica Chen
this is worse than ao3 bruh the author has pulled the “narrator has minor accident mid-argument with situationship forcing them to confront each other in extremely unrealistic dialogue” THREE times. HOW did she pull this guy btw the only explanation i have is that he moved away for so long he forgot her personality
Jul 24, 2025 10:28PM Add a comment
I Am Not Jessica Chen

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alex is 50% done with I Am Not Jessica Chen
such an annoying book to read that i’m kind of embarrassed for asian people. like gang WHAT are we doing here. please switch up in the next 100 pages or i’m selling my kindle
Jul 24, 2025 06:01PM Add a comment
I Am Not Jessica Chen

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alex is starting The Catcher in the Rye
rounding out the teen depression duo before i’m old. i am opening this book with a strong mental image of holden as rodrick from diary of a wimpy kid (movie was traumatizing to kid me btw) and if someone jumpscares me with blond hair i will be mad
Jul 18, 2025 10:40PM Add a comment
The Catcher in the Rye

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alex is 10% done with The Bell Jar
gotta hurry up before the expiry date of Real Internship hits and this gets depressing instead of entertaining
Jul 17, 2025 08:27PM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

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alex is 80% done with Ra
o k ay
Jul 16, 2025 09:44PM Add a comment
Ra

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alex is 25% done with Ra
qntm is like crack which does not bode well for my research meeting in 8 hours
Jul 16, 2025 12:06AM Add a comment
Ra

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alex is 10% done with Intermezzo
with the number of reviews this book has one would think sally rooney could afford a quotation mark key
Jul 14, 2025 06:06PM Add a comment
Intermezzo

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alex is 25% done with The Secret History
four-year-late reread: i remember the first time i read this i thought it was kind of boring and everyone was annoying. but something must have changed within me because i now see that henry is nothing more than a deeply unserious lowkey autistic chill guy
Jul 04, 2025 10:29PM 1 comment
The Secret History

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alex is 5% done with Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
committing myself to reading this slowly for the next ten years after which i will attain enlightenment and evolve into my final form (a bigger nerd) (my ebook copy of this is 1600 pages long)
Jul 01, 2025 10:46PM 2 comments
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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alex is 2% done with Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
okay the first two reviews on goodreads are both shitting on this so i’m demotivated
Jun 27, 2025 09:49PM Add a comment
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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alex is 75% done with Liar's Poker
back in business baby (his investment bank is tanking and i’m so unemployed i’m setting my wake up alarm for 1pm)
Jun 26, 2025 09:04PM Add a comment
Liar's Poker

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alex is 50% done with Liar's Poker
bro said he was gonna take a quick detour from his life story to describe mortgage bonds and he’s been on this for like 100 pages ☹️ come back 😥
Jun 23, 2025 08:28AM Add a comment
Liar's Poker

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alex is 99% done with The Rules of Attraction
what in the world
Jun 16, 2025 11:10AM Add a comment
The Rules of Attraction

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alex is 25% done with The Rules of Attraction
what in the world
Jun 15, 2025 09:38PM 1 comment
The Rules of Attraction

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alex is on page 143 of 209 of To the Lighthouse
boycotting semicolons from now on
Apr 15, 2025 12:31AM Add a comment
To the Lighthouse

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alex is on page 50 of 209 of To the Lighthouse
there is a recurring type of run-on sentence in this book that is totally unique in style from the run-on sentences written by any other author and you can always tell within the first few words if you are at the beginning of one of the Sentences and at first i liked the novelty of it but now it’s as if if virginia woolf does not drop one of these every other page she will die
Apr 09, 2025 06:35PM 2 comments
To the Lighthouse

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alex is 13% done with The Bonfire of the Vanities
okay tom wolfe is not THAT funny i don’t understand why this was the 1987 book of the moment
Apr 09, 2025 12:56PM Add a comment
The Bonfire of the Vanities

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alex is on page 42 of 437 of I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography
i never want to finish this book i’m just going to keep rereading chapters at random on rollercoaster lines
Mar 16, 2025 08:21PM Add a comment
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

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alex is 30% done with King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)
not bad, sick cover (not this one), only slightly damaged by the dubiously clean interior of avery’s backpack. we may be back
Mar 14, 2025 11:35PM 1 comment
King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)

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alex is on page 75 of 490 of Inferno
was banging at the beginning but slowly banged less as i went on
Feb 24, 2025 07:39PM Add a comment
Inferno

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