What did you read this year?
Steven’s
average rating for
2025
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
A ridiculously erudite novel about two young STEM brainiacs who decide to go into the drug trade, and then onto darker materials. RIYL Mark Leyner and the gnarlier scientific parts of Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest. The science is daunting, but like those three, Black has a flair for language that helps it go down smooth. Lots of catch-’em-if-you-can literary allusions, amusing puns and slang, niche subculture references, explanatory footnot
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