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Holy shit I underestimated how many writers are in this thing. Best I can do is post a list of the names encountered every fifty pages (not even hyperlinked cause I don't trust GRAmazon's AI collection development to know anything about any author worth knowing about these days).

A new year, and I still can't publish status updates for current reads from the desktop site homepage. Amazing.

I've barely made any headway, but I have to say, this so far is fantastic.

Time to once again check in on how much my reading tastes have changed in the past twelve years.

A silver lining of these close packed pages is you can go, 'Yeah I just read half a dozen rather well known novellas in a single anthology nbd'.

The nonstop telling is driving me insane.

Didn't think an anthology with this level of literary pretension would include a portrait of a massive size kink, but assumptions make an ass and all that jazz.

Don't be a sell-out like your dad, you say, upping the ante and winning the pot. If making the boy who loves you walk away in tears is a victory.

Anyone else's ability to update the status of individual books from the front page of the desktop version disappear?

I could be annoyed by a previous reader having corrected this book's various mathematical errors in pen, but hey...they haven't been wrong so far.

Burn in hell, you warmongering slug.

No mention of legalized segregation of African Americans in the US possibly influencing the US ambassador's "objectivity" regarding Germany's legalizing antisemitism in 1933, eh?

Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant "idiot."

Rest in peace, A.S. Byatt.

That a scholar [...] could compare inventing an app to the civil rights movement gives a sense of the intellectual atmosphere around wavering graduates[.]

I can only be hanged once[.]

It's an odd feeling, reading someone rattle off five titles of an author and realizing only in the aftermath that you've read four of them.

Getting some heavy 'I sleep with a picture of my nemesis under my pillow' vibes here.

I have to wonder how a public library stuck in a temperate tourist trap of a WASP city ended up with a copy of this that it hasn't successfully weeded yet.

Love the new Amazon ads on book pages. And by love I mean, do you fuckers ever shut up?

Showing up to work while sick is not at all like being a good parent or treating your coworkers with respect or dutifully attending job training. The book has some credible consistency, but the attitude towards human health (especially in regards to scientific analyses of human health, such as of the true value of dieting or the realities of how disease spreads) is at times abysmal.

If this goes "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" this far in, I'm gonna puke.

Tender-hearted, even — whenever he couldn't find a cause for rage to save him from it.

Nothing like switching from comparing your entire collection to another user's to comparing only the works by people of color and watching the user's average rating drop 2-3 stars.

You ever read something so poorly written that you can feel yourself losing brain cells as you go along? And here I had been thinking previous to this that I was glad that patrons were checking out this author's latest work. Christ.

I've had shit luck with anthologies of this sort so far, so let's see how this goes.

A very effective way of excluding someone from being in the public sphere, let alone participating in it on equal terms, is to deny the person access to toilets in that sphere.

Reading this while having an 'X' delineate gender on my driver's license sure hits different.

Tells you something about a book, printed in 1930 and inscribed by a former owner in 1958, that this page and the next were still uncut, and none of it, in my estimation, good.

A bashful winter's noontime showed only its modest ankle before slipping into darkness again.