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Rin

evenstar@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 7 months ago

tsundoku tsundere. also a writer and all that.

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Michael Faudet: Dirty Pretty Things (Paperback, 2014, Michael Faudet) 2 stars

Review of 'Dirty Pretty Things' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I'm fully aware that dusty pink is an actual colour, but despite this, all I can think now is that Lang Leav has dusty nipples.

Oh, the 'poetry'? Sophmoric and reads like something some pretentious, desperately horny first-year sociology student would scribble down in an attempt to convince his friends that he's deeper than them and really truly understands women. And gets tonnes and tonnes and TONNES of amazing kinky sex.

Congrats on the sex, I guess?

Review of 'Dandelion' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

There's this...thing...with the Instapoetry crowd. Before anyone starts on me: yes! I do think Instapoetry is legitimate poetry! Much the way William Topaz McGonagall's writings were also legitimate poetry. I hate both of them, but that's not the point.

But, you know, as awful as McGonagall's poetry is, I have to give him credit that I can't give to the Instapoetry set: he did not give two shites what anyone else thought of his writing. You can't say that about Instapoets. The amount of knickers I have seen gotten into twists about people not "understanding" this sort of poetry (read as: not enjoying) and thus being dreadful people has been...I mean, mostly annoying (anyone recall Lang Leav's passive aggressive "I make more money than you so therefore your opinion on my poetry is void teehee" Tumblr post?), but also mildly amusing. And credit where credit's due: Gabbie "I AM The …