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Hey mr flynn love your reviews, i would love to hear your take on true detective season 1, a character is based off a lot of the books youve reviewed. Im sure im not the first person to mention it. Anyways love ya thanks

Hey James, bit of a personal question but I hope it’s okay. Do you have a lot of friends IRL or are you more of a loner?

Splendid interview! I've read High Life a few times and the Basic Instinct influence never occurred to me before. Also, I'm not surprised Mr. Stokoe liked the movie, Happiness. I can see alot of similarities between endings of Happiness and High Life. Great point about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Such a great movie--first horror movie that actually scared me.

A good analysis and says it exactly how it is.

True Detective got people reading The King in Yellow again, but it got me to check this one out as well

Really excellent analysis of this book. You’ve done it more justice than anyone I’ve seen. Honestly perfectly articulated.

One IMO excellent thing I seem to get from reading TCATHR, as well as from Zapffe, Schopenhauer and Tolstoy is that I lose my addictions. I had addictions in the past because I was subconsciously running away from life’s inherent meaninglessness. But now that the subconscious fear as turned into conscious recognition, I seem much more content with living a life free of addiction. I was a food addict specifically, and I used trips to restaurants (on my own, sad as it sounds) to escape my subconscious resistance to the truth. It’s great for me to have the cognitive dissonance of thinking life should be an “amazing adventure full of meaning” lifted, especially since it doesn’t at all present itself as such.

It would be fun if you did an interview / discussion with David on these two books.

stokoe is a legend

Clearly and cohesively explained

Religion says that if you're depressed you need a higher level of delusional horsecrap, found often in scriptures

I am currently reading through the book, but I am a bit put off by the black and white, unnuanced perspective that I feel it has. I feel like David Benatar brings more nuance to his philosophy by acknowledging that life does contain pleasure, even if it is skewed towards pain. I am not done with this book yet though, so perhaps it gets more nuanced. Thoughts on this, Mr. Flynn?

I have an idea as to why Ligotti refers to the book as a “self-help book”. It’s because he is employing Zapffe’s fourth method of dealing with the horror of existence - sublimination. He states this himself in the book. So if someone has similarly pessimistic thoughts as Ligotti’s, they can learn sublimination through his book.

Great video

This cover looks rich 🤑

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Very good review mate.

I like your reviews about benatars books. It feels like benatar is speaking through you. I think the reason is that you don't try to chicken away from the dark conclusions from benatars musings

awful video

Congrats

Congratulations. Impressive cover art on the book.

That is nice beginning intro..

Good on you, mate.

congrtulations.... keep grinding

Congratulations! I just enjoyed reading The Drifter one of your short stories.

I'm glad you finally got a contract with a publisher, keep the hard work !

Congrats, this is great news!

Amazing I'm Glad, your going to new heights!

I can't tell if he's joking 😂

Congrats brother,! 🎉🤘🏽🖤

Congratz, mate.

That's awesome! I'm happy for you and that new cover looks amazing!

Congratulations. Very well deserved.

BLUE BLOOD, TRUE BLOOD CONFLICT & CREATION Thay book is real history

This book is very interesting I’m looking forward to reading it but just wanted a review and I appreciate it

5:08 There's a noticeable pattern throughout history where writers use fiction to convey warnings about the future, often because it's a way to express complex ideas without stepping on too many toes. I think Brunner might have taken this approach in *'The Shockwave Rider,'* trying to alert us to what he saw coming. His focus might have been more on the message than on deeply developing the characters, which makes sense given the political and technological themes he's tackling. It's a subtle way of saying, 'This is your future if you're not careful....

Maybe let McKay know about Welshes new Brighton based book as I'm sure he resides there.

Interesting. I kinda wanna try that.

Stephen Kings novella collection Dreamscapes and nightmares came to mind at the beginning. Continue this practice and maybe after ten attempts combine them all and see if they inspire you to write ✍️

Seems like the author should have just fixed the mistake of his own existence without ruining other peoples brains with this life-denouncing claptrap.

Untethered Freudian free association. 🤔

i love eggs me

The rat part sounds interesting as one of the points of The MacDonald triad in the childhood of serial killers are cruelty to animals. Like shes trying to let the protagonist know "look, I could fuckin kill you" Also just in case you don't already know this book is Kings favorite of all of his books. Maybe that's why you enjoyed it more than his usual stuff.

Isn't Waffle slang for talking shit