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Carl Frie

@pleasereadyourbook

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Wow, thanks for the share -- and thanks for writing a great collection of short stories! 🙏

11.12.2025 04:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No worries, lessons learned.

06.07.2025 07:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I appreciate that, but can't see it happening anytime soon.

06.07.2025 07:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi Brian, I've sent you an email. Would rather not discuss something like this publicly but am happy to offline or via email.

06.07.2025 06:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Random Shanghai.

#shanghai #china #streetphotography

13.05.2025 10:32 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I ate these Chengdu dumplings a few nights ago and can't stop thinking about them. Cost about 3 dollars. Shanghai's food scene is pretty amazing when you get away from the tourist traps.

#shanghai

12.05.2025 11:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Random Shanghai.

#shanghai #china #streetphotography

12.05.2025 11:21 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Random Shanghai.

#shanghai #streetphotography

12.05.2025 08:58 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, but I'm really impressed with transit and trains in Shanghai. Also, I'm not getting any younger and the world's not getting any better, so best seize the opportunity while I can.

09.05.2025 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, you're brave aka a glutton for punishment 😂. When you first started posting about this you got me excited to travel again, I lost the thrill after lockdown. Currently planning Shanghai to Bangkok all rail this August.

09.05.2025 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You do realize that this is the coolest thing to happen this century, right? Please tell me you're going to write a massive book about this.

09.05.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When I have to wait for coffee.

30.03.2025 02:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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After dinner chill.



#booksky

11.03.2025 11:44 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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March treats arrived. #booksky

11.03.2025 09:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who finds it really moving. That section where the narrator recalls the last time he spoke to his mother really got to me when I recently re-read it. Also, final section when he watches Sonny play -- simply amazing!

28.02.2025 01:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hello from south Shanghai.

26.02.2025 05:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes and yes. 200 - 250 pages is magic.

23.02.2025 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain

23.02.2025 12:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Also, today is yet another perpetually grey and cold Shanghai day.

23.02.2025 02:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We talked for over an hour last night about book 1, Dawn, and agreed it was one of the wildest and also thought provoking sci fi novels either of us had read. We also recorded the conversation, I'll put on YT soon.

23.02.2025 02:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Someone please alert Jeff Mills.

20.02.2025 09:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course they count!

19.02.2025 07:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Used to love books like these when I was a kid, generally just for the covers, but still.

18.02.2025 07:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

16.02.2025 13:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow!!! Never seen these before!!!

16.02.2025 13:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mogwai is playing in #Shanghai this Spring, along with a boatload of other #post-rock bands. Check out the lineups:

16.02.2025 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, I'll look for them.

16.02.2025 13:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I really liked it, the pacing and artwork are spot on, makes a verbose Lovecraft story thrilling and even more horrifying than the original.

16.02.2025 12:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I also really enjoyed it, have you read Tanabe's manga of At The Mountains of Madness?

16.02.2025 11:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A Good Man is Hard to Find

16.02.2025 11:08 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0