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whenever i see people on there rating writing that has stood the test of time for a century AND FOR A REASON one star because it doesn't have "spice" or "relatable characters" and all they read is fucking lonely white woman pick me porn books with those paper cutout looking covers i have to talk myself down because i can't be commenting like this
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really got to take notes on here so i stop forgetting things i want to read. i'd like to read these things the rest of this month:
exit note (it's just come out, been waiting for it for months and it's my little priority right now)
song stories (am currently reading it and i've got just 4-5 or so chapters left but i've limited myself to only 1 chapter a day so i can think properly about them)
mysterious skin (would be rereading it but i feel that i've got to in the context of we disappear and with that book fresh in my head)
fun home by alison bechdel which i've had forever but never read. the time has come...
#maybe it's just wishful thinking to assume i'll have the time. but i'd like this#ough the world is so cruel to me. i have to read everything that exists and yet i have things like WORK.
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we disappear was like a tighter more direct and yet equally ambiguous and unmoored mysterious skin. not that mysterious skin’s looseness and nebulous storytelling strategy is like weaker or anything just different. we disappear was a bare essentials story though. so good..
#we disappear#scott heim#read#i just finished it i read it in 2 days i really enjoyed it. weird book#and i wanted to read mysterious skin again to compare things and just to get a full view but exit note did just come out so. i Will read it#but later#i keep inadvertently pushing the mysterious skin reread bacm
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the fact that howl and other poems was put on trial for obscenity is proof that there is nothing more obscene to people terrified of life than genuine love without apology
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excerpt from “wild orphan” by allen ginsberg
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william carlos williams’ introduction to howl by allen ginsberg
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"Of course I knew Brad, and you didn't. Brad was just your idea, and I guess you think he's a great idea. He may be a great idea, but Brad himself is just a kid who got drafted into the job of representing an idea. Now Brad is just a name. You don't even know who it belongs to anymore."
--dennis cooper, the sluts
#COOPERS METATEXT I S FUCKING . UNREAL#the sluts#dennis cooper#read#i just finished this . mindset is insanely altered currenly#quotes
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checking in w. this i'm not reading these in any order those two were just the two i happened to read first. anyhow if i read two off this list this month and two next month i'll be in fine shape. more than anything i've been meaning to read these for forever and want to stop putting them off. it would be nice to actually read everything on here by the end of the year
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i’m getting vibes like i need to read mysterious skin again. and kms
#This after i finish these 3. this and then we disappear so it's all there#mysterious skin kms and a blunt..#EDIT 22 HRS LATER I HAVE FINISHED 2 OF THE 3. GETS SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
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𖦹 april reads 𖦹
neither of these were 5 stars for me for various small reasons, but both i found to have incredible merit. rushing to paradise will sit in my head for literally ever i am afraid. every time i read a ballard book it rewrites something in my head in a cynical sick way. i didn't manage much time for reading due to work (sad, pathetic) but what i did read i really enjoyed.
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"Neil had known she was poisoning him, but dying at her hands at least brought him close to her and made him the centre of her attention. He had closed his eyes to the murders she had carried out, and by the end had been ready to be killed by her."
—j.g. ballard, rushing to paradise
#thisi s the quote i was talking about in that post#theres. see#okay my thoughts on the book are incredibly complicated and i really do think some of it was genuinely stupid. like. just stupid#but there's something in there. there's something there completely ignoring all the critique of feminism because blah blah blah shut uppp i#its old. it's boring it's tired it doesn't look good.#but beyond that. the grooming element and the effect of that on neils character there's something there that made it work as a horror novel#rushing to paradise#jg ballard#read#quotes
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my tbr piles.. poetry/script, fiction, nonfiction, and then some miscellaneous things i really need to reread
#i wish i didn’t have a job and could read all day long every day.. ough i’m so excited jusg looking at them#booklr
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fundamental shock to me that neil survived the entire book & made it out alive but also in a way he didn’t because he died on that island . blah blah neil saying he would always be waiting on that island for the woman who groomed him & tried to murder him while on the trip home from that island is sort of him not surviving the book .oujg it makes me nauseous
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i should post my music books collection i’ve got some good ones actually
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sort of hate when i see a post guilting people into library use (good) but it’s posted by someone in a city who genuinely can’t comprehend how libraries in towns/villages work (makes you look so fucking stupid). “don’t pirate books your library PAYS for hoopla and libby use themm” okay cunt. YOUR library pays for hoopla. i have nothing. “libraries don’t even have late fees anymore” this is YOUR FUCKING RICH KID LIBRARY. the fees at mine are higher now than when i started using it. like obviously their intentions are always good but the posts come off as so fucking obtuse cos people can’t imagine living in smaller/lower income areas than they do .
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