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What I am reading today.

I'm about half way through but I'm going to go for a walk and will finish when I return.

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[โ€“] fujiwood@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm almost done but I'm enjoying it. It almost has an innocence to it. It's just an old fisherman struggling with a fish.

[โ€“] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

That's what everyone seems to say. I've never read it, but from the outside it sounds like a really kinda pure story that you can imbue with extra meaning and emotion. Idk, I've never read it.

Also just remembered this SMBC comic about the size of the fish (spoiler b/c I don't know how important this is to the plot):

spoilercartoon of a page with several story ideas ending in "Old man tries to fit whole fish in boat, but FISH TOO BIG" triple underlined and with stars and arrows around it

Link to comic here.