hexarchate started reading The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end …
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This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end …
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
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"