Da Miata Man

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I can’t do blue checks anymore, this better work this time.

I first read this working a Taco Bell drive thru, when I was in a self pitying life of addiction that had me romanticizing despair more than seeing a warning. Now this book fills me with sadness of relationships ruined and opportunity lost from deciding it’s better to destroy your life out of fear.

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Da Miata Man@crappyoats.bsky.social · 2w ago

This could’ve been really good and it was disorganized fluff instead. So many themes, characters and attempts at backstory that just were tropey instead of building depth. Felt like reading a Netflix prestige drama even with some tremendously written sections that kept me hoping it would get better.

This could’ve been really good and it was disorganized fluff instead. So many themes, characters and attempts at backstory that just were tropey instead of building depth. Felt like reading a Netflix prestige drama even with some tremendously written sections that kept me hoping it would get better.

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Da Miata Man@crappyoats.bsky.social · 2w ago

First thing I’ve read this old in a while. Beautiful surrealist prose for fans of GGM, I felt the Guatemalan mountains wriggle to life off the pages. The plot and structure was a bit difficult for me to tease out and the annotations were not great. I want to revisit with a guiding hand next time.

Might make people mad to hear, but it really seems the long term effects of Tumblr was de-intellectualizing people who would have been putting work in to learn and now we live in a world where we're moralizing ignorance

First thing I’ve read this old in a while. Beautiful surrealist prose for fans of GGM, I felt the Guatemalan mountains wriggle to life off the pages. The plot and structure was a bit difficult for me to tease out and the annotations were not great. I want to revisit with a guiding hand next time.

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Da Miata Man@crappyoats.bsky.social · 4w ago

Found this as the Guatemalan Bolaño and I agree. Only difference is Rey Rosa doesn’t seem as eager to lie about his complacency or role in his country’s suffering. Crime genre subversion and meta narrative roaring at full tilt in a deep meditation of how much say the past should have on the present