Just finished Butcher's Crossing.
w0w. 420/69.
Pick my next problematic Reddit-coded book by a cishet white male (or Connor O'Flannery)
Reading Book of the New Sun for the 2nd time. Completely different experience everyone should experience.
Clearly Scifi, not fantasy
All the allusions to prophecy and future
Cacogens and spaceship are obvious this time through
So excited for this read
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, but I want to!
So I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video: youtu.be/1pDkA9KwRJk
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN but I want to!
I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video: youtu.be/1pDkA9KwRJk
You roasted my TBR as a "red flag shelf". What's BookTube even for if it's just dunking on what people read?
youtu.be/br0xXQAugsE
What will be your job in Blood Meridian?
I’d be the guy who writes ‘NO CHILDREN’ on the scalp bounty contracts and die young because of my teeth
Rereading Blood Meridian after a lot of weird fiction & cosmic horror, and the way he describes the landscape, what it does to the men, the judge as a living archon (Azhrarn from Tanith Lee's Night's Master). It reads closer to Hodgson than any Western. Truth's in the middle.
Just finished The King in Yellow for my third time and the connection to True Detective finally clicked. Carcosa isn't a place, it's your country once you stop believing. New essay up on the Substack
open.substack.com/pub/parano…
Nights Master by Tanith Lee is the fantasy book I fight for.
No worldbuilding fluff but a rich vista of demons and curses, talismans, villains to heroes and back to villains again. Grim, horny, folkstories so cement I was waiting for Wishbone to pop up and narrate. Top tier
Reading My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel E. Chamberlain
The true account of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A world as brutal and foreign as any fantasy novel set in the depths of Hell
The most surprising B.M. revelation is that The Judge was a real dude




























