• greenhorn@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”

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      6 months ago

      I always liked at the end of Starship Troopers it was Zim who ended up capturing the brain bug after taking a demotion to fight on the front lines.