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Christ, dear internet, how are we going to get past this great mountain in our relationship? We have travelled far, internet, every stain on the car seats a treasured memory, every scratch on the paint a point where I got a little upset and apologized later. But this isn't something we can get by, internet, this mountain in the middle of the road. I was just going for a piss, internet, and then there was a mountain about Himalaya-high between me and the car. You didn't have to take this metaphor so damn seriously. How am I supposed to climb this? But i'll go, internet, for you I will tear every thread of my pants on these rocks. That is just how much I love you. More than pants. More than two pairs of pants. Yeah, I know. It's been a weird year. I read some books in May! ( yes books )Tags: book review
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Since Rusty has gone before, blazing the path in the high grass by the sheer mass of his incessant druge use, I am powerless to do all but follow. BOOK REVIEW (about books)* The Jannissary Tree, by Jason Goodwin Is a good book about the 1850s in the Ottoman Empire! It is probably very historically accurate. THINGS I FOUND PROBLEMATIC ABOUT THIS BOOK; The hero is a eunuch, right? But he has sex with someone. What is up with that? How does that even work? The whole story ends with a goddamn rooftop denounement in which the villain orates his villanious plan and offers for the hero to join him, then BY SHEER NARRATIVE CO-INCEDENKY is foiled by the equalivent of a falling girder. Seriously, this is not a good detective novel. THINGS I LIKED ABOUT THIS BOOK; Surprisingly enough, the few bits in which the hero was left alone to cook and ponder life in general were really enjoyable. Restful? Yes. WHO I WOULD RECCOMEND THIS BOOK TO; Ottoman's from the 1850s, Eunuchs, dudes who enjoy reading about eunuchs and 1850s Ottomania. Ottomanisms? Ottomantiaries? Light, by M. John Harrison (who also has a great blog Is one of the best science fiction books I have ever read. It is A Novel, which, you know, means it is Serious Business. But it is also a science fiction book! It is all full of beautiful words. THINGS I LIKED ABOUT THIS BOOK; Magical dice, wierd narrative slices, horrible evil horse's skull, masturbating about cousins, acceptance that there are mysteries we cannot understand, unacceptance that there are mysteries we cannot understand, a pervading sense of powerful narrative THINGS THAT I LIKED LESS ABOUT THIS BOOK; The ending was sort of really weird, seriously, what? And then he what? What? THINGS ABOUT THE BACK-COVER OF THE BOOK; The reason I bought the book was the back-cover, which said; On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefuhachi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysterious explored and unwrapped in Light, M. John Harrison's triumphant return to science fiction.This would have been a good story, I think, except it is totally not the story the book is about. Please think about your back covers a bit more throughly, M. John Harrison. PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE THIS BOOK; Dudes who are smart, dudes who are artistic, dudes who freak out whenever they see a horses skull, Iain M. Banks, chicks who are hot for Iain M. Banks maybe PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT LIKE THIS BOOK; Rusty. *BOOKS Tags: book review
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