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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
im halfway through blood & guts in high school.
when i first tried to read it ages ago i found it "badly written" and ultraboring.
now aeons later i'm starting to realize its genius.
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I started to read this at one point, when I was about 18. I'm not sure if it was my mindset at the time — wanting to be a writer of the deconstructionist persuasion, and probably looking for a style that would hide my total lack of confidence in my own creativity — but I was reading the weirdest things I could get my hands on, and definitely looking for something.
However, I dropped that book like a bad habit (the kind that you actually want to drop because it doesn't afford you any fleeting sense of euphoria to make its badness worthwhile). Jesus fucking Christ. If I had a souped up time machine I'd go back and convince myself never to pick it up, paradox be damned.
I will
never read that ... thing. That's a promise.