a.co/d/0cImChwC Horror is sometimes looking within. Halloween is almost here, and this story is available Ebook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Audiobook. Dive in and watch it burn.

It's an interesting thing discovering you have been blocked by somebdoy thst you are fairly certain you never interacted with. I must be more offensive than I realize. 🤷‍♂️

youtu.be/GF64afzlAQ0?si=huFn… Generally when I see her videos, I find myself nodding along. Where I diverge on this one is not that there aren't issues in society, it is that Holden is the same as the society, from what I remember. He is the ultimate phony, because he is the same as the phonies he sees. Now maybe it is because I was poor as a kid, and working class background etc, but you can't afford to be phony and consumerist etc when you have no food. For me, Holden came across like a protestor writing a polemic against society on his IPhone that he bought a month ago, while waiting in line to buy the newest one. He is everything he hates.

I have been listening a lot lately to literature or book adjacent podcasts, and something occurred to me, though I am sure it is not a unique insight. I'll use Catcher in the Rye as an example. People talk about how it observed things about society, culture, behavior etc. I never felt that way when I read it. Then people will talk about the context in which it was written, but I knew people such as my grandparents etc who lived through that time. What they thought and believed, their own life experience etc. And that's the thing. Most of these works that are seen as great or culturally relevant aren't. They are only relevant to a slice of the culture, the elite slice. Their observations aren't about culture generally, the human condition. They are mirrors to themselves, and whoever shared their college dorm.

Current society is falling apart because men raised by women are afraid to confront women, even when they are wrong, and don't know how. Everyone is trying to placate because it is easier in the short term, because it is easy to dissolve a relationship, and hard to be honest.

Labeling something a classic, or labeling something banned, is purely marketing for people who want to see themselves as intellectual and moral, without having to actually read or unserstand a book. Just buy and display it, because that is exactly what it is. Performance.

Christopher does good stuff. Very enjoyable.

I don't normally try poetry much, but lately, events make me consider it. Fire, Fire, they shout, but is it firing rounds or burning down? Hold, Hold, they roar, but will those hands embrace or gore? Fight, Fight, they spit, but what fire have they just lit?

... I thought these were joke covers...

I know a small sub genre, but #5 in any new release of any genre isn't too bad.

The vast majority of people under a certain age don't have enough experience to have much interesting to say. Obviously, many exceptions, but it is generally the case. Some people die of old age without being interesting either.

Fire at will.