Zach's Updates en-US Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:21:42 -0700 60 Zach's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Friend1423670668 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:21:42 -0700 <![CDATA[<Friend user_id=32734318 friend_user_id=158259201 top_friend=true>]]> Review7575729783 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:03:40 -0700 <![CDATA[Zach added 'It']]> /review/show/7575729783 It by Stephen King Zach gave 4 stars to It (Hardcover) by Stephen King
an american masterpiece ]]> ReadStatus9519120113 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:49:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Zach is currently reading 'The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir']]> /review/show/7635020911 The Loves of My Life by Edmund White Zach is currently reading The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
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read in one sitting after midnight. a minor williams work and nonetheless teeming with our most profound and destructive qualities on full display. a play about the tension between the contents of our bodies and the contents of our soul, how to reconcile them and produce that elusive thing of love. loved it ]]> ReadStatus9514246635 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:22:38 -0700 <![CDATA[Zach wants to read 'Notebooks']]> /review/show/7631630663 Notebooks by Tennessee Williams Zach wants to read Notebooks by Tennessee Williams
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my goodness, what a book! i haven't read McCarthy since The Road and was at first quite put off, but this byzantine, exquisite labyrinth of disparate philosophy and elegy managed to baffle, upset and move me time and time again. a novel this expansive is hard to summarize, every angle of western masculinity, class identity, mortal dread and americana not only trafficked in but shot though, killed. staged in restaurants and bars, frigid rooms with snow visible beyond the window. civilization is coming to an end (as all things are inevitable to do) and the godless void of an athiest life leaves these anguished characters in an existentialist daze of turgid woe. very depressing. amongst the many stray threads of mystery featuring plane crashes and disappearing violins, it turns out Oblivion Itself is the antagonist of the novel: it takes the form of the IRS, the American government, alcohol, incest and longing. i will definitely revisit some time in the future. a beautiful and haunting work of auteur fiction we may never see the likes of again in contemporary letters ]]> ReadStatus9489660131 Fri, 30 May 2025 23:28:32 -0700 <![CDATA[Zach wants to read 'The Lime Twig']]> /review/show/7614347033 The Lime Twig by John Hawkes Zach wants to read The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
]]> ReadStatus9434285699 Sat, 17 May 2025 00:53:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Zach is currently reading 'It']]> /review/show/7575729783 It by Stephen King Zach is currently reading It by Stephen King
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