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Mark Twain's War Prayer by Seymour Chwast

5.0

Man shows himself, time and time again, his own cruelty, avarice, brutality, and shame.
He looks into the mirror and discards it for its ugliness.
He is neither rational, nor repentant.

First time I've ever read anything by Twain, the musicality of his syntax and bite of his prose makes me want more

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

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5.0

The Mysteries will be happy enough without us.
I cannot say the same for ourselves.

If you're upset that Calvin and Hobbes ended, this might not be the book for you.

Dead Dad Club by Julian Shendelman

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4.0

Hardest thing about being a dad is knowing they would be ok without me.
These poems helped.

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

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5.0

SGJ writes like he's escaping his own house fire.
A chaotic dash for any exit-trying to scoop up anything worthwhile and lovely.

Campy, brutal, and tender in equal measure

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

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2.0

Solid work but overrated.
Metaphor and mystery for sure, but you can bet your tail it has to be marketable too.

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

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5.0

Deeply upsetting.

It is impossible to read this book and think of the United States as anything more than an obstacle to freedom and an enemy of peace in the world

I'd recommend it to anyone.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

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4.0

Brutal, but worth the effort.
Reading this book is not necessary to see the plain truth.

Israel is a apartheid state.
Israel is committed to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
In full knowledge of this, European and American governments have funded and carried Israel for the past century.

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

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fast-paced