M.J. Franklin
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2,777 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
M.J. Franklin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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MJ, how do you feel about this book?
I really loved this book.
I think I more than liked it.
I loved it.
For me, I was emotionally invested in each of the three sections.
I keep describing this book as cerebral.
And when talking about it, especially when I was writing up the announcement article for this book club, I was like, it's about existence, technology.
And I was saying these very large things that at a certain point I was like, am I sounding inane?
But that's because the book does get so philosophical and big in a way that I really liked.
I liked that it was a cerebral book, but one of the things I admired is that as cerebral as it was, I personally felt very invested in the emotional stakes of each section.
I love the slapsticky humor of the first section, not just when he's at Thomas's house and he's trying to disguise that he isn't recording, but like...
When he's in that hotel and he's just bumbling, he's running into the old fling, all that stuff.
There's something... Ben Lerner is good at writing bumbling characters where it doesn't feel like they're obviously the butt of the joke, but you're just watching these lost men and... Yeah, entertaining.
So I was there for that.
The middle section...
So brief, so slim.
But for me, it was like an electric jolt.
Anytime you have the presence of doubt or that becomes an explicit consideration in a book, I am.
That's just me.
I'm like immediately.
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