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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jun 23, 2025

Have read two of these #books, #TheEmpusium by #OlgaTokarczuk and #CreationLake by #RachelKushner. They’re both very good reads. #novels

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Luke Feb 5, 2025

I’m still #CurrentlyReading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and at 333 pages (of 407). Enjoying it a lot and currently a solid 3.5/4 stars out of 5. Was a bit nervous about reading as my main book friend abandoned it halfway through as they weren’t getting on with it. Only observation I’ll offer at the moment is the main protagonist is a woman but sort of reads like she’s been written by a man (but obviously hasn’t). #Books #CreationLake

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Hawksquill Jan 27, 2025

Book 2 of 2025

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

4.5 stars

I've been in a bit of a reading rut lately, but this grabbed me from the first page. At first glance, it seems like a fairly boilerplate spy novel: an American woman living under an assumed name infiltrates an anarchist commune in France to frame them for anti-industrial agitation. But it very quickly gets more bizarre, with emails from a mysterious primitivist who idolizes Neanderthals and the narrator's anonymous bosses demanding more and more of her.

The prose and philosophical sections were definitely the high points for me. I would have preferred if the narrator's characterization felt a bit more in depth, but it's still very memorable and disorienting, kind of like if Piranesi were a spy thriller. Plus some genuinely insightful and sometimes funny critiques of leftist infighting.

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