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i'm surprised none of the pov characters have a teen and a young child - or just a teen with a younger sibling pov. i feel like that's an obvious dynamic to explore

also interesting that joan and doug are both pov characters, but nadine hasn't gotten her own pov (yet at least)

also i get people being annoyed that nothing was ever explained but i like it better that way and i'm not interested in reading the sequels. i enjoyed the inexplicable crab.

it was pretty good! i saw a reviewer mention the misogyny but honestly compared to philip k dick it hardly even registered. but what was with that captain cook apologia. i guess the comparison to earthly colonization is inevitable in sci-fi but between this and the sparrow i'm getting annoyed with the historical revisionism

ehh not feeling the prose

pretty cute! i liked the concept. pretty funny that nobody at any point questions the ethics of just infodumping the entirety of human knowledge on a sentient alien species very early on in their society. prime directive??? never heard of it

i have noooo idea what i just read. i liked it tho

this was such a good book! i think even people who aren't fans of horror or movies in general should read it, it's very insightful. the choices made early in the history of movies have had lasting impact not just on movies but on all media going forward, an influences that continue to exist regardless of whether we know about or acknowledge them

as coleman says: "The impact of these racist scenes housed in one of America’s most technologically important films is a wicked bell that cannot be unrung"

this was my least favorite vonnegut book i've read so far. i'm kind of surprised that this is the one that's been so heavily lauded

this was supposed to be horror but it was mostly just sad. not bad, though!

i'd tried to read rosewater before and didn't finish it. while i finished this one, i think i might just not be a particular fan of thompson's writing. some interesting concepts, though