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Finished reading Conspiracy Against the Human Race the other day. It's ok. Not great. Not really a philosophical book, but more of an attempt at a fiction writer trying to write bleakly about an already bleak subject really. I was mostly digging it until the last chapter just turned into an analysis of Lovecraft's and Poe's writing styles since it was billed as a philosophical book and not a writer analysis but whatever.
Ligotti mostly just writes like "here is why sad, I won't explain it further but here's the writer's thoughts on this that I've been jerking off the entire book. Also here is a great modern philosopher who I don't even know their real name." He also does that repetition thing like you see in theory but it just never really lands.
Probably a 5/10 book for me really.
Also I started playing Axiom Verge again randomly the other day. I'm 2 bosses in and rage quit over the fast screechy zombie boys. Probably try to get back to it today.