@pacemaker64.bsky.social: At first I thought "oh after reading posts by basement dwellers on 4chan ofc this wouldn't make a big impact" and then I realized it's extremely repetitive and just... uncomfortable. I was not an insightful teenager and even to me that book was so mediocre and uncomfortable I had to drop it.

Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces kind of reads like it was written by a (particularly insightful) school shooter ngl

glad to see I'm not the only one who felt a certain revulsion after reading that novel

At first I thought "oh after reading posts by basement dwellers on 4chan ofc this wouldn't make a big impact" and then I realized it's extremely repetitive and just... uncomfortable. I was not an insightful teenager and even to me that book was so mediocre and uncomfortable I had to drop it.

And I read it back in the 80s, long before 4Chan was a gleam in the demon's eye!

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