Lucas started reading The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan by John Chrostek
Owen, a man adrift in life, falls asleep on a river raft tube and floats out to sea. There, in …
Lucas started reading Feast of the Pale Leviathan by John Chrostek
Feast of the Pale Leviathan by John Chrostek
Owen, a man adrift in life, falls asleep on a river raft tube and floats out to sea. There, in …
Lucas rated Dengue Boy: 4 stars
Dengue Boy by Rahul Bery, Michel Nieva
Close to Cronenberg and deeply indebted to Kafka, this gaucho-punk novel offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society at …
Lucas finished reading Dengue Boy by Rahul Bery
Dengue Boy by Rahul Bery, Michel Nieva
Close to Cronenberg and deeply indebted to Kafka, this gaucho-punk novel offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society at …
Lucas rated From Hell: Master Edition: 5 stars
From Hell: Master Edition by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell (From Hell)
Jack is back—and this time, the blood is red. The award-winning bestseller FROM HELL—often ranked among the greatest graphic novels …
Lucas finished reading From Hell: Master Edition by Alan Moore (From Hell)
From Hell: Master Edition by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell (From Hell)
Jack is back—and this time, the blood is red. The award-winning bestseller FROM HELL—often ranked among the greatest graphic novels …
Lucas rated Everything Is Permitted: 4 stars
Everything Is Permitted by Cameron Kunzelman
An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchise
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Lucas finished reading Everything Is Permitted by Cameron Kunzelman
Everything Is Permitted by Cameron Kunzelman
An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchise
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Lucas rated Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: 3 stars
Lucas finished reading Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Lucas finished reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb …
Lucas quoted Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets …
Pavlov was fascinated with “ideas of the opposite.” Call it a cluster of cells, somewhere on the cortex of the brain. Helping to distinguish pleasure from pain, light from dark, dominance from submission…. But when, somehow—starve them, traumatize, shock, castrate them, send them over into one of the transmarginal phases, past borders of their waking selves, past “equivalent” and “paradoxical” phases—you weaken this idea of the opposite, and here all at once is the paranoid patient who would be master, yet now feels himself a slave… who would be loved, but suffers his world’s indifference, and, “I think,” Pavlov writing to Janet, “it is precisely the ultraparadoxical phase which is the base of the weakening of the idea of the opposite in our patients.” Our madmen, our paranoid, maniac, schizoid, morally imbecile—
— Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Page 49)
Lucas rated Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: 4 stars
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; …
Lucas finished reading Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; …