Leo X. Robertson
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Bonespin Slipspace
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The Grimhaven Disaster
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Jesus of Scumburg
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Rude Vile Pigs
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Sinkhole
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Unfortunates
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Findesferas
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Diary of a Prostitute's Landlord
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Weird Fauna of the Multiverse
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The Glow
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Leo’s Recent Updates
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Like a Tennessee Williams play except gayer and a little fucked up. In other words: perfect. |
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Through every single book of hers to date (except maybe Property) I’ve overlooked Shriver’s tortuous prose. With this one I just can’t. It’s extra fucking painful. I think because her topic is the attack on language, it made her want to flex hers. Whi ...more |
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I love Oates' insights. She has a blessed life and many admirers but can't really see it or believe it or feels embarrassed by it. She has written an insane amount but often feels inadequate anyway. She has achieved next to everything you could want ...more | |
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A great account of what it was like to live through the war as a Polish Jew. So many narrow misses and plots and counter-offensives were required to weave oneself through the war alive, it's just amazing that Vladek Spiegelman managed it. It's all th ...more | |
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A great account of what it was like to live through the war as a Polish Jew. So many narrow misses and plots and counter-offensives were required to weave oneself through the war alive, it's just amazing that Vladek Spiegelman managed it. It's all th ...more | |
Leo Robertson
added a status update: Hello people of Goodreads,
I have a new film out for free on YouTube—I'd be grateful if you gave it a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOK98... And consider rating it on IMDb (one click is fine!) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16795158 Apparently it helps the film get attention :D It’s book-related, I mean I did write it :P Cheers! |
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Beyond the attraction of its provocative premise, I’m only almost clear on what it’s sorta getting at in the midst of its endless verbiage. It seems to satirise the overly intellectual and garrulous nature of academics on racial inequality, but in the ...more |
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Thought this was great! Highsmith can never do an ending as well as the movies of her books—she was probably just writing too fast to look back 🤣 |
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It's a tough one—I couldn't get through it because I got the point pretty quickly, more or less—though it was liberating to read. Why should some people just enter life so cursed? A psychologist I follow put it something like this: Some of us are pla ...more | |
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“Fuck you motherfucker
I hate to watch you try
Fuck you motherfucker
Why don't you fucking die?
If I woke up as you
I'd gas myself and fry
But you don't have the guts
To even watch my suicide”
― Jesus of Scumburg
I hate to watch you try
Fuck you motherfucker
Why don't you fucking die?
If I woke up as you
I'd gas myself and fry
But you don't have the guts
To even watch my suicide”
― Jesus of Scumburg
“Because to exist meant making copies and copies of your own DNA with less and less accuracy with time, to lose the spring in your skin, to inhale a poisonous gas that both allowed your next breath and exploded you from the inside at an insidiously slow pace. To exist was to give way to entropy. To live, in no uncertain terms, was to die.”
― Jesus of Scumburg
― Jesus of Scumburg
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“Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, okay? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
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Glad to meet you :)
Thanks for the friend request and I look forward to future book chat!
Cheers,
Leo :)"
Hi there! After I sent the request, I realized that there was a follow option. I was about to cancel and just start following you for a while, so I wouldn't appear impertinent, but you accepted! Oh thank you so much! I'm really happy to be friends with you and I too am looking forward to our future interactions. Vessey :)
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It must've been a sign. Saxual Healing reading will resume soon.
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Great! I've been looking for a new sitcommy bright coloured thing so OITNB it is!!
I loved Silicon Valley if you haven't seen that :)
I chose The White Ribbon for me and the family to watch- biggest waste of time ever! Haneke not for me, haha!
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But generally I like more the odd films oout from a late night going through imdb lists than following "The Directors" and the occasional dark comedy GAAHH .. now this convo has gone too smart for me to be in it- I'll go watch some Mindy Project :D
oh and have you seen Orange is the new black? YOU NEEEED TO if you haven't :D
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Hipsters are usually spotted reading IJ and Gravity's ..."
Got it, Aya :)
Yeah I agree! The funny thing is they're both good books! Like Animal Collective is a great band and Spike Jonze a great director. They (all hipsters) got Lynch wrong though, only about half of the first season of Twin Peaks was any good, and maybe Blue Velvet- everything else though?? Have you seen Mulholland Drive? Eraserhead? Eugh those films suck, haha!!
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Hipsters are usually spotted reading IJ and Gravity's Rainbow while drinking coffee (starbucks).
PS: Call me Aya :D
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Thanks for thinking of me binnudeya!!
I really love these choices- just goes to show DFW remains the people's least popular writer for the people haha!!
Easy to see why he's been surrounded by pretention- you can usually spot the hipsters by how much they claim to "enjoy" reading DFW, but maybe you'd agree that there's not much "enjoyable" about it :P
Great share! :)
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Thanks! And totally agreed!
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Looks like I scanned the requirements a little too quickly and didn't realiz..."
Approved! :)
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Looks like I scanned the requirements a little too quickly and didn't realize it was limited to the U.S.
I know such an oversight cannot be easily remedied, but I offer you this humble song in exchange for your wasted time:
Where Would We Be Without Books?
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FC2 Ronald Suckenick Innovative Fiction Contest"
Looks good! Shame I am not from US, but I've bookmarced a few competitions here and there :) Cheers for thinking of me!
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I spit coffee out my nose over that one! Love that image, and the line. I'm up to chapter 3, obv., and having a great time.
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Glad to have made you laugh! :D
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As I'm going to study in England starting this September, most of the books on that shelf are required reading material. I still have so much to catch up on! Best wishes, Sam.