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Keith McCartney's avatar

I don't know how to begin this... firstly, ARX-Han, you don't know how much I loved this book.

To use phrase loosely (and pun equally intended) - if only I could shout my love for it from the rooftops - doesn't do it enough justice; you've opened my mind to a whole other level of literature.

Life is damn busy and I just do not get the time to devote more of it to drowning myself in the enthralling minutes of reading that are brought from your writing, so when I went in pursuit for more of the same and came across your sub-stack and then found that this post existed containing the words "three versions with three slightly different endings", I nearly came in my pants as for me this is equivalent of Anon spending his evenings by himself.

Please, I beg of you, continue on your path for gifting to the world the greatness of this massively underrated work and general neo-genre, you are literature's last remaining hope and, equally, if you read and acknowledge, with more begging I plead for two things: 1) tell me of more similarly amazing writers with this-tone-and-darker levels of psychological transgression, and 2) if this Goodreads list fulfils point one - 'Authors of the /lit/ renaissance' (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/187317) - what, from the list is worth pursuing, I really love this genre but have very little time to delve into 400-500 page novels.

FYI, I figured I should mention now as an edit: I'm one of the hardback buyers from London via Amazon (UK), and again, you will never know how much this book hit me in the feels, I'm not personally afflicted with the subject-matter but its a part of my generation's societal stitching and I'm forever using the /lit/ board as my source of finding read material.

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Tooky's Mag's avatar

Thank you for the shout-out ARX! It was a pleasure to read and hope others continue to give the book a shot.

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