• jwiggler
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    1 month ago

    The Alchemist and Song of Achilles are some popular books that I thought were mediocre. Probably not the worst book I’ve ever read though.

    That probably goes to Sean Hannity’s Conservative Victory that my grandma gave me when I was 12.

    True slop. Fuck Sean Hannity.

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      1 month ago

      I enjoyed The Alchemist and The Zahir at the time, but in hindsight I think The Zahir was an elaborate cuckold fantasy. I think if I reread it I’d remember the rest of it but that’s what it feels like thinking back over a decade later.

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        1 month ago

        I didn’t read the Zahir but I felt like The Alchemist was a shallow Siddhartha-wannabe when I read it. I couldn’t help but think it was trying too hard to be profound