November/December 2025 Readings

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

For this last bimonthly installment of my recent reading for 2025, I’m including RPG stuff here on this page, since there isn’t a lot of it. It’s at the end, so that those interested can find it easily, while those who aren’t interested can leave the page once they hit that bit.  Ooops, I never finished the RPG book I was reading, so… I’ve moved that to my first post for next year. Anyway, here’s the last of my reading for 2025. 

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The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch

When I read Thomas M. Disch’s 334 back in grad school, I found it didn’t make much of an impression on me, beyond its unremitting and overwhelming grimness. Perhaps the bleak grimness of graduate school distracted me from its finer points? I’m not sure, but I can say that the cruelty and bleakness of The Genocides has definitely made an impression on me: I have essentially devoured it over the last day-and-a-half.  

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