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    It is a book that's been hanging out in my head since I've finished it a few days ago—one of those books that I think I actually appreciate and enjoy more as a complete experience (as opposed to some books, where I mostly enjoy the process of reading and being immersed in them). Just a very complete emotional (and humanistic) experience. I get the feeling Vandemeer actually loves the world and the people in it.

    I felt similarly about Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlmann.

    Spoilers through the end of Borne:
    So, it seems heavily implied to me that the human that eventually became Mord created Wick. Thus Wick's memories of talking to him in the company building, and why Mord allowed Wick to save Rachel as they escaped Balcony Cliffs). Is that right? If so, what does it mean that arguably Mord's act of mercy (allowing Rachel and Wick to live) was in some sense an essential cause of his own destruction (as Rachel then talked to Borne, who seems to have convinced himself through that conversation that the essential step to take to do the rifht thing, and be a "person," was to destroy Mord). Maybe it doesn't mean anything.

    I dunno. The ending left me with a lot of feelings about the inevitability of suffering in a fundamentally unjust world, and I'm trying to unpack it.

    by Scourlaw

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