Wait, isn't that the right take though? I always viewed Stark as a top-rate boilerplate anti-hero. Yeah, he was a major douchebag and an asshole, but hey, he shows up and gets the job done and really does love freedom or whatever. But that type of person can still just...be a shitty person, too.

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Like a solemn pilgrimage, I travel along this story. And ever since first reading it 14 years ago I knew it would be one of those books I could hold up and say "Here, this is a little piece of me in someone else's words. This person can say it in a way that is better than I ever could. Look at it."

"Veins" makes me want to recoil and embrace something (that I can't quite define) at the same time. To scream in horror and laugh. And then laugh again. And then cry. It's unlike anything I have ever read, or would ever again pursue. Though I read it, without fail, every year or two, in one sitting.

"Veins" by Drew is like that. But... "like it" in the sort of nebulous sense that I had when I first read "The Little Prince," in that it deeply resonated with me and I knew immediately that it was a book that would stick with me forever, though I would only know why through repeated re-reads.

The themes within it resonate so strongly with me, that every re-read I'll realize something new about myself; either through interpreting a story in a certain way or re-interpreting my past interpretations given the context of who I am now. It's a deeply touching and deeply emotional story to me.

Are you happy, Rascal? Are you happy that you tricked an unsuspecting Brazilian Trending page into both liking and saving this post?

Literally the second I posted that.