beautiful prose, melodrama, and scenes of the macabre (all my favorite things)
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Two that immediately came to mind. The Catcher in the Rye if you like an unreliable, anti-establishment narrator; easy read. The Picture of Dorian Gray is just so pretty (ironic phrasing once you start reading) there’s just something beautiful about Oscar Wilde’s writing to me. This is another book I would read for the first time all over again if I could.
Jane Eyre is another favorite of mine, but I know it’s not everyone’s thing.
Jun 3, 2025
A beautiful portrait of the land I love in the American west, pitted against all ill and evil man can do. Really engaging set pieces, some of the best descriptions I’ve read, sprawling prose. The worst parts of being a man amidst beautiful and unforgiving country.
Side note if you meet someone who says this book is “awesome”, run quickly.
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"Well, the pendulum swung today and I thought, instead of my own body, of Maurice’s. I thought of certain lines life had put on his face as personal as a line of his writing: I thought of a new scar on his shoulder that wouldn’t have been there if once he hadn’t tried to protect another man’s body from a falling wall. He didn’t tell me why he was in hospital those three days: Henry told me. That scar was part of his character as much as his jealousy. And so I thought, do I want that body to be vapour (mine yes, but his?), and I knew I wanted that scar to exist through all eternity. But could my vapour love that scar? Then I began to want my body that I hated, but only because it could love that scar. We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can even love with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve."
simply perfection
Oct 30, 2024
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i saw rocky horror at the drive-in yesterday ❤️ i love being outside and at the movies !!!!
Jun 7, 2025
so cute <3
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figuring out what you like as if you were a stranger to yourself. we are vast and ever changing and so is this knowledge <3
Jun 2, 2025