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Everyone read the short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury rn-- perfect perfect companion text to this

This book is so real and true. No flowery prose but the resilience of the human story.

Am I supposed to enjoy this? Not sure if this is my thing- but it sure is a lot of other people’s thing.

dude what?

This reminds me of a combination of Lemony Snicket's writing, a tacky mystery film, Vonnegut's Midwestern malaise in "Breakfast of Champions", and that weird concept album about dementia

tragic flaws kill me man

This reads like well written fanfiction so far but I don't actually care about the characters at all. I was supposed to like this! I was a Percy Jackson kid!!

not gonna lie I am not super vibing with the writing style here. Yes very lush and Greek and classical and yearning-ish but... it feels very objective and even slightly cold. Plus all Patroclus does is talk about how Achilles is better than him. No one likes a (self) Loathing Linda.

Updating ratings + need to write more reviews

forgot to update a hot min ago!! I love a family history and NYC!

heartfelt etc

why did I choose to annotate this? to understand what in tarnation is going on.

Let's be honest, Woolf is like a puzzle and it takes time and effort and an amazing amount of empathy for the human condition to solve

DNFing e-books because its hot girl summer reading outside and i cannot do kindle. PHYSICAL COPY SUPREMACY

I love love characters. These are the archetypes baby!!

new york new yawk

the best things I read ever I cannot express with words. Olive Llewellyn’s story is so so metatextual

Shit’s gettin crazy!!!

Reading on a 7+hr road trip and I will speedily lap up any plot Emily St. John Mandel writes

I will take forever to read this but my life will be forever altered

ehhh drags un peu

The sheer speed which I devour ebooks is sickening but I LOOOVE IT

Literally so much better than the film little mermaid will be. Because it has murder.

Why read a book for the plot when you can do an excruciatingly beautiful mind puzzle character study? Ughhhh Woolf had a beautiful mind

Interesting

One more story left, The Dead!!!! "Grace" was really good, continuing on with the Catholicism themes. I recently realized that Joyce doesn't use quotation marks, which should be unsurprising to me because those Irish hate dialogue that makes simple sense.

I actually adore ya fiction for its ability to be completely unhinged and existential at the same time

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omg that opening chapter was ART

(quietly moves pride and prejudice to DNF graveyard) SO SORRY GUYS!!

Essentially we all have a epiphany but refuse to do anything and are trapped in a vicious cycle of our own making; we could be free but instead we're repressed and Catholic and shameful and dissatisfied. Am I right or what?

(to Marianne and Connell) y'all are a bit fucked up and I'm not sure I relate loll