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DeejUnfazed@outside.ofa.dog

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I read to escape: fantasy and scifi to escape reality, non-fiction to escape ignorance, smut to escape ... actually that's probably reality as well ...

I need to read more and scroll fedi less. Building my "Want To Read" here first. Eventually I'll start putting in entries for the TBR pile, and then I'll ... who am I kidding? I'll die before I finish that one.

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Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (EBook, 2003, Bantam Books)

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- …

I don't know if I'd read it again

I read it in the 90's. It was magnificent. I don't know if I'd read it now. There's not enough time, and there are so many newer things to read. Read it for research, if you want to know where the genre came from?

Howard Hughes: The House of Shattered Wings (Paperback, 2001, Gollancz)

Welcome to Crooked, the first volume of a new anthology series from Bad Intentions Press. …

Feels like a first book

Reads like a long introduction to something new. Kept me interested enough to finish it--and I definitely want to know where the author went, from here. Possible that once I've read a couple more, I'll say that this one could've been skipped?

Fallen angels and Eastern magics in a post-apocalyptic alternate mid-20th Century Paris.