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Pretty much every Auster character is just him (well, this is the case with every novelist or *fuck it* artist ever, Auster just stands out bc he doesn’t hide it), and this novel is basically just all of those ‘created’ individuals from past works harassing their creator (a Mr Blank… hmmmm!) in search of further meaning, with the protagonist being like wdym yall are just dispatches from my self-imposed prison

Only took ~3 sentences to figure out why this is one of Steve’s favorites

GRUELLING descriptions of the human body tbh

Extremely funny

Lowkey his Epstein novel; pair w/ Ellis’ Glamorama for max effect

“The computer never has to take a break, or sleep. It’s like it’s open 24 hours a day…”

Sweetie, you’re doing too much. Majorrrr first novel energy

Extremely ahead of its time

Groaning before I even opened this one, tall task before Eggers to prove to me why his suburban white ass should be writing this

Idk sun also rises and siddhartha do it better

Finding out that Bill Murray starred in an adaptation of this is like if you found out that Shane Gillis starred in Baz Luhrman’s Gatsby

This the realest shit ever wrote

Number one Ursula complaint: she uses too many names.

Only a few le Guin novels left before I’m a completionist, the back cover advertises this as Ursula’s first ‘mainstream’ fiction work, whatever that means.

Might just be my great American novel

Been in one of those slower ruts, not necessarily having a bad time with my current slate just stepping out of my comfort zone a lot and misfiring with a couple deep cuts a bit too early. This thing is starting to blow my mind though. Took me about a hundred pages to piece together the constantly shifting narration (not even paragraph breaks between these)

Finding that I really loathe these epic American family sagas, I.e. east of Eden, the brothers k, town and the city. Thus far Oregon’s finest seems to be a minor Kerouac