Hi! Welcome to my bookshelf! This is my current collection of books, the covers are accurate to which one I own!
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After the brain food that was my last read I needed something unserious and possibly deeply stupid. This book marked all those boxes. I am probably the only person on the earth to have read this, and that is totally understandable. All around really dumb, it is exactly what I expected and it did nothing more than poorly tell a very outrageous story. An evil scientist who calls himself Satan has created a planet full of evil robotic creatures. His son, Vlad M. Paler (dead serious) is a vampire robot who takes the reign of thing once Satan is killed. Vlad wants everyone to be a real vampire, so he creates a vampire virus and gets to work. There is a jabberwocky, a homunculus named Hampton and a bunch of other weird creatures who serve him in this mission. Our main guy, normal lad 5000, Oliver Dolan is on a mission to stop all of this- or is he? Literally nothing happens, it is rather sexist (1981 babyyyy) and terrible jokes are made on every other page. It was easy to read if anything. I also have a first edition copy of this terrible book, laugh out loud.
6/22/2025
Where do I even begin with The Left Hand of Darkness? This is one of those books you absolutely need to experience for yourself. I am gobsmacked at how skilled a writer Ursula is. She made me feel like an alien!!!!!!! That is the best way to put it into words. An all around total alienation of being, it was phenomenal. I loved how this story builds. I loved the scale of everything. I loved how detailed and warm everything felt while also filling me with utter despair and chilling my insides. (seriously I need a hug) It made me feel essentially all stages of grief (IT IS GENIUS!!!!!!!). Light, darkness and shadows layered so wonderfully with culture, mythology, and metaphors I think she had to have been a little insane to come up with it all. There is so much here, I feel like I just skimmed the surface. I love love love how this breaks down gender and builds it into something completely unique (ESP for 1969). A planet full of androgynous beings who only determine gender during a monthly hormone cycle for reproduction. And our main character is an extremely misogynistic man (which is never truly acknowledged flat out) from another planet. We read an account of his mission to bring the planet (Winter) into an established greater union of other planets. What could happen? Whose to say? Life, death and everything in between. Phenomenal. You should read it. I should read it again. 6/17/2025
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