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vivastory
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Brought my cioran with me as I wait for a tire change. It seemed appropriate. 🤣

Ruthiella Totally! The monopoly of suffering is experienced by me any time I have to deal with automotive issues! 🤣 2y
Branwen Accurate! 😁👍🏻 2y
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Kmacthelibrarian
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TH3F4LC0N
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Pickpick

So I‘d wanted to read this book for a while, and boy does it give you a lot to chew on! 😆 I‘ve long considered myself an antinatalist, but I didn‘t know I was a full blown pessimist until I read this, but I guess the shoe fits. This is a hella bleak book, but I think it can give people some really valuable perspective. In short, existence itself is horror. Read the book to see why. 😉 For my full thoughts, see here:

https://youtu.be/85zbzFIxzt8

vivastory Ligotti always has memorable covers 2y
TH3F4LC0N Indeed! 😅 I have no idea how the image on the cover related to the content of the book, but it sure is striking! 😂 2y
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Ela1
Demiurgul cel r?u | Emile M. Cioran, mile Michel Cioran
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Pickpick

Capitolul paleontologie e minunat

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Misanthropester
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Mehso-so

short stories of intolerable people. this prose is lacking import but at its worst is still on the cusp of literary fiction. Still, one has to ask, why this and not nothing? white male cishet fiction is rudderless & lackluster

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Misanthropester
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A promising story collection

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Shadowfat
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Mehso-so

I liked the writing style and I liked some of the stories, but most of them I just didn't understand. Most of the stories seemed to end abruptly and I didn't always get the point. I think this one wasn't my style.

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mrozzz
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Nothing quite like the current issues shelf in the nonfiction section. So divisive/diverse. Although, I am interested in reading the circled book (tagged).

Or shall I continue my adventures in YA & chick lit? 💗🤔

TBH I‘m quite mentally exhausted from daily news events that I‘m enjoying my mini-break from reality as I avoid following too many stories and reading more novels or historical nonfiction/memoir.

vkois88 YA & Chick Lit all the way. Anything else is way too stressful and bound to raise your blood pressure if you're anything like me 6y
CouronneDhiver Nothing wrong with some “fluffy” books for awhile... I‘m finding myself a bit drained by the news/current events too. 6y
RavenLovelyReads That title catches your attention! 6y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Balance, babe. Balance. Best not to overdo on reality. (Says the woman who keeps reading about the train wreck...) 6y
TheBookStacker I‘ve been reading a lot of chick lit and YA because it makes me happy in this sad world. I need the fluffy because between my work and the news I‘m drained emotionally. Can‘t even read Murder mysteries because I just need happiness! 6y
mrozzz So true, so true... I love seeing what you‘ve been reading! @BarbaraTheBibliophage I keep buying all the political books but I‘m also setting them allow on my TBR 6y
mrozzz So.... stressful. It‘s unbelievable 😣 @vkois88 I am quite enjoying the nostalgia I feel reading such light women‘s fiction. It makes me feel 16 again! Simpler times. @CouronneDhiver it‘s such a hard balance trying to keep up but not overdo it. 😕 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @mrozzz Thanks. 😍 I bought a couple right after the election that I need to read before they‘re obsolete. I can‘t stooooooooppppp!!!! 6y
mrozzz I feel that 💜 @TheBookStacker I also feel burnt out. It was fun picking out a bunch of chick lit the other day! It‘s been awhile since I “let” myself read anything so light. 6y
mrozzz Such a problem to have right?! @BarbaraTheBibliophage it‘s crazy. I feel like it‘s easier to... encounter those reads on audio so that‘s probably what I‘ll start doing, saving my audible credits for when I‘m ready 😬 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @mrozzz I‘ve definitely listened to a few of them, so I have to agree. Fire and Fury worked at 1.5 speed for me. It just upped the crazy ante. 6y
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