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He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Into this fog slipped Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare . The novel, Butler’s third, is the story of Moddie, an overeducated and underachieving thirtysomething who, following a seismic breakup, abandons Chicago for her Midwestern hometown, where she tries to get a grip on her life. It’s a sharp book, with painfully real characters and perfectly... See more
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed – all he’s got to do is thump on the drum, and there’s his response.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
