i read this book in like february but i need to log a book so i don't fail the read at least 1 book this year challange. nice! thank YOU big jeff bezoi read this book in like february but i need to log a book so i don't fail the read at least 1 book this year challange. nice! thank YOU big jeff bezos for this website. ...more
this guy tries to avoid talking to another dude and steals his mail, then when the guy goes to return the mail and talk to the other dude, the other dthis guy tries to avoid talking to another dude and steals his mail, then when the guy goes to return the mail and talk to the other dude, the other dude is on vacation....more
this guy tells everyone he doesn't watch tv anymore but since they're all middle and upper class intellectual and politicians they respond by saying tthis guy tells everyone he doesn't watch tv anymore but since they're all middle and upper class intellectual and politicians they respond by saying they don't watch tv, and no one is impressed.
as a person who has been in college for 8 years, i no longer watch television either, and spend my time more profitably watching streaming anime on crunchyroll, or collecting yokai in yokai watch 2....more
the best part of this book is when the miserable, lonely people are still miserable, lonely, and often dead after looking at the acropolis, rublev icothe best part of this book is when the miserable, lonely people are still miserable, lonely, and often dead after looking at the acropolis, rublev icon, noh mask, whatever....more
this book was pretty cute i guess. the best part is when the bedouins can't handle living in sedentary society and get all angry at each other. byE.this book was pretty cute i guess. the best part is when the bedouins can't handle living in sedentary society and get all angry at each other. byE....more
the 5th book was a bit of a slog because it's about having a girlfriend and going on dates or whatevr, which i CCANNot realte too. but this one gets bthe 5th book was a bit of a slog because it's about having a girlfriend and going on dates or whatevr, which i CCANNot realte too. but this one gets better because proust finally figures out that people age and die and get all old and senile and stuff. after some weird 20s sex stuff, marcel spents the last 300 pages or so of the book making fun of people for being old and dying, and he calls them stupid. he even resurrects some characters who have previously died in other books, so they can attend the last guermantes party, and calls them stupid and insipid. great job. if there's one thing i can relate too, it's being elderly, dying, and stupid....more
in this book proust stops fretting about his furniture and revolving doors and instead starts to fret about the etymologies of place names in normandyin this book proust stops fretting about his furniture and revolving doors and instead starts to fret about the etymologies of place names in normandy and where his girlfriend is. in between the fretting, charlus hides behind a bush to spy on his boyfriend, and an old woman's mustache is described in great detail....more
this is cool. the people in this book are less people and more their clenched fists, clenched masseters, exploded nose veins, dirty suits, dirty fingethis is cool. the people in this book are less people and more their clenched fists, clenched masseters, exploded nose veins, dirty suits, dirty fingernails, and housewife ampthetamine habits. marlowe sort of bumbles his way through everything and may or may not be in control of everything and kind of comes across more like eliot gould in altman's version of this than the bogart version of the character. ok bye....more
good book if you want to read about a guy who stalks a woman for 200 pages, then spends the next 600 pages calling all his acquaintances stupid and crgood book if you want to read about a guy who stalks a woman for 200 pages, then spends the next 600 pages calling all his acquaintances stupid and cruel in the most verbose, but also prissy, manner possible. WHicH i do as it happens ahaha ...more
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