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ReviewJun 27, 2025

It’s been half a year since I really beat someone’s face in! I love coarse aesthetics! Fucking people up furiosamente!

Blue Lard opens with an epistolary section that reads like Alexander de Large living the plot of one of the less coherent PKD novels. Boris, our first protagonist, is a “biophilologist” working on Business Trip BL-3, deep in Siberia. The purpose of the busine…

@hallogalloBlue Lard

ReviewJan 27, 2025

Red Pyramid

A collection of Sorokin's stories from his USSR underground days to the present. Rather Uneven at times, the earlier stories being much, much worse that his later stuff but funny enough that reading eight or so pages of a party functionary shitting and pissin…

@macaronRed Pyramid Selected Stories

ListAug 6, 2024

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@dumgirlBlue Lard

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It’s been half a year since I really beat someone’s face in! I love coarse aesthetics! Fucking people up furiosamente!

Red Pyramid

to read - fiction

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It’s been half a year since I really beat someone’s face in! I love coarse aesthetics! Fucking people up furiosamente!

Red Pyramid

to read - fiction