If I go home and my apartment, job, and girlfriend aren’t mine, I’m absolutely crossing off every realistic possibility before I think I traveled to a fucking alternate dimension lol

Interesting. I’m not an alcoholic but I’ve definitely drank my share of alcohol and I thought The Girl On The Train did a great job capturing the feeling of half remembering something that happened in a black out and the feeling of anxiety and shame that comes with it.

He played the highest level of college football in the SEC and you think an ankle sprain has mentally broken him and caused him to be scared of pain?

Yeah as opposed to Reddit which is a utopia of optimism and delight lol

Oh interesting. I tried the Wayward Pine series and gave up after like a hundred pages. I think we have opposite reading tastes haha

I’m halfway through it right now and I’ve found I enjoy it a lot more if I just like…half skim? Like I read everything but if I don’t understand a word or sentence I just keep going without worrying about it and find I still generally understand the scene and what’s happening.

Reading Cormac McCarthy is like looking at modern art, you gotta just squint a bit and not worry too much about understanding everything