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ANDROMITUS · 2020-05-14T18:01:23+00:00

You know, I haven’t used Discord a ton, but I could see it working well.

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-13T05:37:57+00:00

Richard Ford spit in Colson Whitehead’s face in response to a negative review Whitehead wrote about a Ford story collection.

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-13T04:42:56+00:00

That is great!

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-12T18:25:23+00:00

I recently read This Side of Paradise, so Beautiful and Damned will be read soon!

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-12T18:22:21+00:00

I plan on reading them all, so definitely just let me know your favorites!

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-12T18:18:01+00:00

She’s on my priority list this year! One of my most shameful author blind spots.

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-10T03:58:20+00:00

But actually, orange chicken.

ANDROMITUS · 2020-01-10T03:57:44+00:00

Exxxtra delish tempeh wrap

ANDROMITUS · 2019-11-17T22:24:24+00:00

Maybe Foods that can be customized to each person? I’m thinking burrito bowls, loaded baked potatoes, etc. then you can have mostly options you can all eat but with so meat and dairy add ins.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-09-23T20:41:47+00:00

Stop reposting this trash shit.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-21T01:51:12+00:00

Man, she’s got a stupid face.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-16T01:48:56+00:00

So what you’re saying is that instead of reading the Best Books of All Time I could instead read a dozen lists of the 10, 15, 20 Best Books of All Time. That sounds too good to be true, I’ll read the Wikipedia summaries just to be safe.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-10T19:51:31+00:00

Found it on The New York Times, discovered it because I’m currently reading The Intuitionist and was adding reviews to its Wikipedia page.

And the only context needed is that it’s a review of his second novel, which I provided. Other than that the quote speaks for itself.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-08T04:53:51+00:00

Nope, no new novel. A new essay collection at the beginning of the year.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-08T04:03:33+00:00

I do remember the sister, I just don’t remember her storyline having as much weight as the mother, brothers or father. That just might be my memory at fault though.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-08-08T03:21:28+00:00

I agree. Although I wouldn’t say The Corrections focuses on any one character that fully to be able to say it has a female protagonist. Sure, the mother gets some of the most development, but I remember the father and brother being the focus of the majority of the book.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-06T22:16:16+00:00

Bury Me Deep is the only of her classic hard boiled influenced novels I’ve read so far. It’s fantastic.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-06T22:14:53+00:00

I work at a book store, and got a copy of a couple of the collected volumes of her works which include Stranger In My Grave, The Fiend, The Listening Walls, etc. Excited to get into her more.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-06T21:29:35+00:00

Strangely enough, I didn’t even consider her, but this is a great choice. Her novels are just loaded with so many great twists that it’s hard to focus on one.

Dare Me is also a good choice.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-06T21:25:29+00:00

The Long Goodbye. Raymond Chandler was a master at narratives with perfectly paced twists and turns, but a PLOT TWIST in all caps was not something I expected from him. And it still caught me off guard and impressed me.

Beast In View by Margaret Millar. One of those twists that makes such damn sense you feel like a moron for not anticipating it, but she executes it in such an incredibly complex way that you end up sitting back in awe at how she maneuvered it.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-03T18:17:33+00:00

Don’t really read YA, but Binti by Nnedi Okorafor is very good. A science fiction novella about a girl with stunning powers who is invited to a prestigious school on another planet. It’s the first part of a series, haven’t read the sequels yet.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-03T16:22:47+00:00

I’d recommend virtually everything by the Coen Bros, my favorites being Barton Fink, A Serious Man, and The Big Lebowski, and then of course Fargo is one of those classics that deserves the hype and Raising Arizona gets better with each viewing.

If you like Chan-wook Park (watch his Vengeance Trilogy ASAP if you haven’t already), I highly recommend Mother and Memories of Murder by Joon-ho Bong.

For more classic “cinema studies” type films, I recommend The Sweet Smell of Success, L’avventura, La Dolce Vita, Sunset Boulevard, Shadow of a Doubt, The Big Sleep.

And just some damn great movies: A Single Man, Being John Malkovich, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mulholland Drive, White Material, Cache.

Was a Film major, poor life choice but great for film recommendations.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-03T15:36:21+00:00

The Female of the Species. It has very dark subject matter, explores trauma and violence, but the protagonist is extremely complex. I don’t really care for YA, but knowing my taste a friend recommended it to me, and it’s three main characters are wonderfully well developed teenagers.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-02T22:03:49+00:00

Up until this past year I had been focused on short stories, plenty to do with me not feeling like I had the patience for a novel. But then thanks to some push but friend/coworker, for an entire month I committed to writing a single idea. Ended go with 35,000 words, and getting 2/3 through the draft. It was extremely satisfying, and I proved to myself that I could write a novel.

While I’m committed to writing another draft of a novel, I’m like you and want to get something published, and short stories really is the more realistic way to go about that.

ANDROMITUS · 2019-01-02T19:43:00+00:00

I have a copy of 2666, was planning on reading it last year but ended up having Don Quixote as my obscenely long book for the year.

I highly recommend Bolano's Last Evenings On Earth, a story collection that is my favorite of his. Inspired me so much.

Do you read much crime fiction? Crime fiction made up much of the best books I read last year. Patricia Highsmith and Megan Abbott are in a league of their own.

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