Post from the Razorblade Tears forum
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”His balding head was ringed by rust-colored patches of hair on the sides and in the back of his skull. His white T-shirt sported a week's worth of stains. They spelled out his eating habits like indistinct hieroglyphics.”
Must we be overly and unnecessarily descriptive in literally every moment. Using “ringed” already implies it goes around his head. We get it, this shirt is gross. I feel like I’m going insane.
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Amelia squeezed herself. Ike noticed the striations in her arms [...]. It wasn't an unappealing sight
Em I'm a bit confused, did anyone else find this a bit unnecessary?
Also another detail I didn't like, is Buddy Lee saying he's capable of not drinking one day, just like that, and the next day craving a drink. After reading a memoir that touches heavy alcoholism, I don't think the author depicted Buddy Lee's drinking problem properly, he would not think "yeah I can stop easy!".
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zeeee DNF'd a book

Razorblade Tears
S.A. Cosby
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"The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."
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"LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."
Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!
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"Along past Lovejoy Park a piece of the old freeway was still standing...It had not been destroyed when the city was cleaned up and rebuilt...perhaps because it was so large, so useless, and so ugly as to be, to the American eye, invisible."
...ok but she's not wrong lol
skoobevoli is interested in reading...

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com (Cosmic Chaos, #1)
Kimberly Lemming
Post from the Razorblade Tears forum
"The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."
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"LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."
Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!
skoobevoli started reading...

Razorblade Tears
S.A. Cosby
skoobevoli is interested in reading...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
skoobevoli wrote a review...
Glad I did a re-read! I saw the movie during a 24hr sci-fi film festival years ago, and last read the book years before that. Not my favorite LeGuin, but one I will definitely continue to recommend.
"Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are entirely unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it...There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps."
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The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
Post from the The Lathe of Heaven forum
"Along past Lovejoy Park a piece of the old freeway was still standing...It had not been destroyed when the city was cleaned up and rebuilt...perhaps because it was so large, so useless, and so ugly as to be, to the American eye, invisible."
...ok but she's not wrong lol