Antonio Carioca

Fantastic little read, from a fantastic author. Camus and Vonnegut sort of invoke similar feelings in me, with their “and so it goes” and “life is just absurd”. Love them both.

It was particularly interesting to read it during the start of the Covid pandemic, with so many of the reactions on the book being replicated across the Globe.... very insightful...

It's definitely not a fluke that Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest. This particular one is one of those rare books that equates to a solid punch in the stomach. I remember walking for hours on the streets of Kyiv ona very cold winter and going over bits of it over and over... Something that I ended up doing for days after finishing it.

And to this day it comes back to me every now and then and serves almost as a reminder and a moral compass.

Humbling.

Decided to give the second book a try but now I know for sure: this really isn't my cup of tea.

Hm, much preferred the first one

Fantastic, Ted Chiang's vibes here and there. Really glad to have found out about Egan (and a fellow Australian too!!!)