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dynomight

Pseudonymous writer investigating everyday questions by reading the studies

3 books on the record · 22 Jan 2026 – 22 Jan 2026 · @dynomight7

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many years ago, I read Crime and Punishment. Here, with no research and no notes, is what I can remember about that book: It was pretty good.

on dynomight.net · 22 Jan 2026

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

I think Catcher in the Rye is a good but not great book. But I love talking about Catcher in the Rye because (1) all North Americans seem to have read it, and (2) whenever I ask someone to tell me how they feel about Holden Caulfield, I always seem to learn something about them.

on dynomight.net · 22 Jan 2026

loved it

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Fair. I definitely feel like I’m living my best life when I read War and Peace.

on dynomight.net · 22 Jan 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.