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So, what are you reading?
I'm picking up Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited. Don't know anything about it besides that it was an influence on MLK.
Finished Soldier of Arete, by Gene Wolfe. Finished accidentally, I should say - I did not see the ending coming, and all of a sudden it was over. To be fair I was at something of a loss as to what the plot was even doing towards the latter half of the book, but kept reading because it was interesting enough thanks to the setting and Wolfe's good writing - and all of a sudden it was over, in the middle of what seemed to be an entire narrative arc. And in the end, I really still don't know what the books were really about, or where any of the plotlines went.
It was interesting; enjoyable even, but also very unsatisfying in how it's suddenly over with what seems like every end still loose. Wonder whether that's the intended effect, or whether Wolfe is just, as usual, too clever, subtle and ambiguous for me.
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