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This book is wild & out there & unlike anything I've read in awhile, so I'm borrowing from translator Michael Berry's description in his afterword to sum it up: "I prefer to think of Hospital as a Terry Gilliam adaptation of a Franz Kafka story set amid a crazed Chinese Communist Party politburo". The dark undercurrents of the dystopian hellscape that is health care & tech surveillance merge with the speculative scifi of space Buddhism. WHEW ?

“Every civilization, no matter how long or short it may last, ends up doing the same boring things, never realizing why.”

I‘m so close to finishing. Pushing through

“Ai thought he could unleash this virus on humankind and leverage that threat to produce vaccines, sell them to hospitals, and come away with an outrageous profit.”

“As a male patient, I felt that I had an even greater task, and that was to comfort this female patient.”

… is there still no one else out there in the Litsy universe for this one?? I just picked it back up again, another push to try to get through it. Halfway, but is it worth it? Is it worth all the overdue notices from the library?? 🙃 Anyone??? lol

Back to trying to get through this one. I‘m about halfway and feel like I‘m reading the same thing over and over. The only thing keeping me going is that I HAVE to know how the prologue ties into this story. I‘m losing steam though … I hope it pays off 🙃

I came back to Litsy to see what others thought of this and, unless I‘m doing something wrong, I‘m the only one that‘s posted anything about this book so far? Is there anyone else out there???

“I stared at the waterfall in a state of disbelief. I really couldn‘t imagine how all that thick, disgusting infected phlegm could transform into such a stunningly beautiful painterly vision — like something Van Gogh or Monet could have created!”