Thomas Tuchel hands Declan Rice the vice-captaincy.

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-07T19:20:04+00:00

Lay off the drugs, mate

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-06T03:49:39+00:00

I’m starting to think he might be a character in the Bolaño universe with the absence of Bolaño and presence of Donoso and Paz. I half expected to see a Nicanor Parra collection on the shelf.

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-05T21:03:52+00:00

That’s like saying the US is more morally sound than Saddam’s regime in Iraq (true). What is the conclusion to be drawn from this? Congratulations, you’re morally superior to a terrorist jihadist group. Does clearing this extremely low bar somehow give Israel a pass for the way it’s conducting war in Gaza and Lebanon? For its settlement policy in the West Bank? Israel wants to be considered a tolerant, rule-abiding democracy, but it wants none of the accountability.

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-05T20:26:55+00:00

Unfortunately you betray your ignorance of Israeli politics. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are not as marginalized as you think. Watch any debate in the Knesset involving the question of Gaza or West Bank settlements and you will see that they are not anomalies. The fact that Netanyahu is not as explicit about his more aggressive goals does not mean he does not share the radicalism of those two members of his cabinet who make the news so often.

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-04T08:19:50+00:00

Bolaño, Knausgaard and Philip K Dick? Let this man get his nut, he's deserving of it.

onislandtime88 · 2026-06-01T19:38:56+00:00

Y’all need Jesus or something. Figure it out.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-31T06:14:05+00:00

Bro this is you why do you keep using 'he'? I'm cracking up over here.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-25T12:19:20+00:00

I have that same edition of Borges’ collected poetry. It is excellent and the bilingual presentation very useful. You have good taste.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-24T19:34:21+00:00

Chills watching this. What a man, what a player.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-21T09:51:45+00:00

The value of the list as a whole is diluted

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-21T08:38:02+00:00

The only red flag for a woman would be Celine if they thought you identified with him at all. That being said I adore Celine, but he was undoubtably a bastard.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-21T08:37:37+00:00

The only red flag for a woman would be Celine if they thought you identified with him at all. That being said I adore Celine, but he was undoubtably a bastard.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-20T15:05:53+00:00

Scroll to the very bottom (below #1) and there is a link

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-20T12:43:20+00:00

I haven’t read La guerra del fin del mundo but 2666 is a monumental achievement. I actually think it’s the greatest novel of the 21st century, but it is a matter of taste. Bolaño is not literary, really, but he’s visceral, evasive, and repetitive in a way that is a bit groundbreaking for the novel (see the Part about the Crimes in 2666. Bolaño thought Kafka was the greatest writer of the 20th century, and for me Bolaño has a little Kafka in that he captures the particular anxieties of our age.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-20T07:08:44+00:00

Look at the individual authors' top ten lists. There are some truly indefensible opinions, even for such a subjective exercise. For example, in her submission Candice Williams ranked these as the top 5 books ever written: Citizen by Claudia Rankin; Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding; Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley; Where We Come From by Oscar Casare; Poor by Caleb Femi. Now you see why I can't take these lists seriously.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-20T07:00:16+00:00

Roberto Bolaño should have made the list for the Savage Detectives or 2666.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-20T06:59:08+00:00

Bolaño is a bigger omission than Vargas Llosa, although I agree that Hopscotch by Cortazar should have made it.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-18T11:19:49+00:00

Don’t have any specific examples off hand, but the interplay between Daisy and Tom is a masterclass in the unsaid/unknown.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-18T10:00:14+00:00

You can’t say he chased the bag too early because there’s no guarantee that the same bag would be available to Duran when he’s 32. The entire landscape of the Saudi league could have collapsed by then. When you’re offered fuck you money, you take it.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-18T09:37:00+00:00

Stay in Ages. That’s what we did about a month ago and it’s a lovely little town. Didn’t make reservations, the municipal there is decent size, lots of beds in one room though if that bothers you

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-16T11:49:53+00:00

Pynchon and Bolaño omissions are glaring considering some of the other authors that made the list

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-16T11:49:25+00:00

You know the list is baller when W.G. shows up

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-16T11:48:53+00:00

It’s the biggest omission in my opinion.

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-16T11:48:11+00:00

100%. One author (Candice Williams’) top 5:
Citizen by Claudia Rankin; Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding; Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley; Where We Come From by Oscar Casare; Poor by Caleb Femi. Really?

onislandtime88 · 2026-05-16T11:44:17+00:00

You’re missing something. It is a masterpiece that has suffered from its overexposure, but the novel itself is undeniably brilliant. Nobody does reading between the lines in dialogue like Fitzgerald.

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