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The ™ stands for "trouble maker" Most Humble Man in the Universe

Have you ever read any HP Lovecraft? It's kinda like reading Stephen King except without the gay rape and pedophilia...

* "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" — which is about black whores, as near as I can tell

* "Detransition, Baby" — messy triangular romance — between two trans characters and a cis-gendered woman — fucking **hard** pass

* "Heavy" — Laymon explores the cumulative mass of a past that has brought him to this point: his Blackness; his fraught relationship to food — racism AND fatphobia

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html

My Dad had a list of the 100 books you should read before you die that he shared with me in my youth. I think I've read most of them, but I'm not sure.

He doesn't have the list anymore and couldn't recall, exactly, where he'd gotten a hold of the list. He assumed the NY Times.

The Times still puts out a list of the 100 books you should read before you die but now includes classics, such as:

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No, I didn't fact check this...

I guess you tie her to a pole and set her on fire...

I just sold my homing pigeon on eBay for the 33rd time...