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The Pale King
“But that being said, I loved The Pale King, even though he never finished that novel.”
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I’m struggling with this because I love them, but it’s not like they’re underrated.
“I’m struggling with this because I love them, but it’s not like they’re underrated.”
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Her work had a literary quality, but it was also heavily plotted, so I think that’s reasonable.
“Her work had a literary quality, but it was also heavily plotted, so I think that’s reasonable.”
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I read that when I was about 15, and it blew my mind. It’s a very different apocalypse than Station Eleven, but I think of it as the book that made me first think about what a postapocalyptic world might look like.
“I read that when I was about 15, and it blew my mind. It’s a very different apocalypse than Station Eleven, but I think of it as the book that made me first think about what a postapocalyptic world might look like.”
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I know it is, but I’m not going to call her overrated because I think she’s good.
“I know it is, but I’m not going to call her overrated because I think she’s good.”
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05 / evaluation
Exactly. But what I realized, in buying Contagion, was — which I haven’t watched yet; I came to my senses — there’s just such a longing in times of uncertainty to see how it ends.
“Exactly. But what I realized, in buying Contagion, was — which I haven’t watched yet; I came to my senses — there’s just such a longing in times of uncertainty to see how it ends.”
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Definitely in the literary community, I’ve seen a lot of people really trying to support their independent bookstores, which has always been a thing. But I think there’s been a greater awareness that if you don’t buy your books from your independent bookstore — and by the way, they do all sell online mostly — then that store might not be there when all of this ends.
“Definitely in the literary community, I’ve seen a lot of people really trying to support their independent bookstores, which has always been a thing. But I think there’s been a greater awareness that if you don’t buy your books from your independent bookstore — and by the way, they do all sell online mostly — then that store might not be there when all of this ends.”
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Because if you need a ventilator because you recklessly mingled with a crowd of people, that’s a ventilator that somebody else won’t get.
“Because if you need a ventilator because you recklessly mingled with a crowd of people, that’s a ventilator that somebody else won’t get.”
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The fisheries collapsed, and it was devastating economically there. So there’s a dark sense of humor and way of getting by happily in difficult circumstances that, I think, offsets it a little bit from the rest of Canada.
“The fisheries collapsed, and it was devastating economically there. So there’s a dark sense of humor and way of getting by happily in difficult circumstances that, I think, offsets it a little bit from the rest of Canada.”
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