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75% complete! Matt K has read 15 of 20 books.
“THE AFTERNOON OF SEPTEMBER FIRST, DISHWATER-GRAY AND RAINY, A MAN NAMED DALE FIGGO PICKED UP …
"Why'd you hit me? For Christ's sake, I'm old enough to be your dad." "Just keepin' it real," said Figgo, grinning. "That's what I do. My top forte, you might say." What's wrong with this fuckwhistle? wondered the hitchhiker.
— Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen (Page 5)
Oh Carl. You only get better at what you practice and you’ve been practicing for so long. Bravo
“THE AFTERNOON OF SEPTEMBER FIRST, DISHWATER-GRAY AND RAINY, A MAN NAMED DALE FIGGO PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER ON GUS GRISSOM …
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
A series of diaries from an acolyte of a terrible pain cult roosting in a desecrated monastery after the collapse of this world. She writes them secretly with ink of ash, dirt, blood. She hides them and pushes her pain out on the sick sisterhood she’s trapped in.
It’s very very dark - like a bleak poem written black on skin. The wicked glee in the beginning gives way to a deep sad rage at all that’s been ruined and profaned.
Nothing good can grow in this poisoned garden, no clean tool can be forged in this filthy fire. But people can try - and so they do. They grow something they can chew, they beat something brittle out.
The ending made me stare up at the ceiling for a bit.
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
What an ending.
From Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/06/18/anarcho-cryptid/#decameron-and-on
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
Oh fuck I feel sick. This book goes hard.
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
This is such a feverish nightmare dream.
“THE AFTERNOON OF SEPTEMBER FIRST, DISHWATER-GRAY AND RAINY, A MAN NAMED DALE FIGGO PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER ON GUS GRISSOM …
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
First page is starting STRONG
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a …
Next in the playlist of pain
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
A creepy fantasy of sorcery woven into the underbelly of glamour and the new world. High stakes among also-rans scraping to get by.
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
The beginning of this horror novel seems to be mostly about the horror of wage slavery
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
Wow. This book was incredibly good and I am so happy to have finished it.
@anaulin Interesting - I had some similar feelings about the end of How Infrastructure Works. The book does a lot to explain how infrastructure is the thing you take for granted, but ends on a superhopeful note about how we can cure our ills by planning for a world of energy abundance. It's very hard to listen to that message now and not think about who controls where that energy is directed and how it is distributed. If we can't equitably share the abundant food that is enough to feed the world, why would we share an energy surplus instead of darkness in some places and TV in the Sky for others?
A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world …
From @vlibs
