Matthew Chisholm > Recent Status Updates

Really great writing in this one. May be better to categorize as horror. Wow.

Surprising how light Cumings is on N. Korean atrocities...

This has been a really interesting book so far. The writing is choppy but intelligent, characters are developed well, but conflict is flimsy. I'm not sure what to do with this book right now.

“We have all been called this or that over the years. But now we are who we are.”

"It was just coming on fall, and the valley was making a brilliant spectacle of its own death. Yellow detonations stood like signal fires above the subducted creeks where the cottonwoods, at least, had managed to find water."

This memoir is one of the best written books I’ve even read. Outpacing Hillbilly Elegy in quality and depth.