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An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, Ella Minnow …
The story of an isolated nation-state self destructing under nonsensical tyrannical rule hits a little different as an American this year
An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, Ella Minnow Pea brings readers to the …
Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved by Random …
A solid book but a little heavy handed in the ways characters stop just short of looking to the camera and explaining Marx's theories on surplus value
You will feel the hunger, the choking on dust, the exhaustion of the characters and be hyped to participate in your union
A solid book but a little heavy handed in the ways characters stop just short of looking to the camera and explaining Marx's theories on surplus value
You will feel the hunger, the choking on dust, the exhaustion of the characters and be hyped to participate in your union
Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved by Random House when The Grapes of …
There are good parts but parts where I'm too untherapied and too homosexual to connect
On further reflection: the problem is this book tells not shows and then tells you over and over and over again
There are good parts but parts where I'm too untherapied and too homosexual to connect
On further reflection: the problem is this book tells not shows and then tells you over and over and over again
The #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use! This manual will prepare you to …
A lot of stories are just Not Good. Like I really dislike edgelord vibes, I dislike overwrought metaphors for queerness even when you lampshade the fact that you're doing it, I don't need every trans story to involve "and then she FUCKS with her DICK" in a tone that's so self-congratulatory it's anti-erotic
Some stories were really good though.
What Cheer was the good kind of melancholy
Thieves and Lovers was just interesting and compelling in that "snippet of a life" way
Imago, though, was amazing. Basically worth the price of admission. I'm glad I didn't DNF early because oh my god I loved it so much.
A lot of stories are just Not Good. Like I really dislike edgelord vibes, I dislike overwrought metaphors for queerness even when you lampshade the fact that you're doing it, I don't need every trans story to involve "and then she FUCKS with her DICK" in a tone that's so self-congratulatory it's anti-erotic
Some stories were really good though.
What Cheer was the good kind of melancholy
Thieves and Lovers was just interesting and compelling in that "snippet of a life" way
Imago, though, was amazing. Basically worth the price of admission. I'm glad I didn't DNF early because oh my god I loved it so much.
This is such an odd book, really. If you go look on Goodreads you'll see a bunch of reviews that are basically "I just didn't like the main character".
Which, and I don't want to presume other people's feelings, I don't think is exactly the problem. It's not just that she's self-centered and self-destructive, because those can be good traits for a character, it's that her self-destructive behavior feels less and less well-developed as the novel goes on.
She doesn't just impulsively do things to guarantee her freedom, at the cost of everything she finds good in life, it's that the book just tells us that she's like this and you watch her do things one after the other with no time to pause.
Other characters also don't really have discernable motives, they just hang like props as the plot arcs towards its pessimistic conclusion.
Like …
This is such an odd book, really. If you go look on Goodreads you'll see a bunch of reviews that are basically "I just didn't like the main character".
Which, and I don't want to presume other people's feelings, I don't think is exactly the problem. It's not just that she's self-centered and self-destructive, because those can be good traits for a character, it's that her self-destructive behavior feels less and less well-developed as the novel goes on.
She doesn't just impulsively do things to guarantee her freedom, at the cost of everything she finds good in life, it's that the book just tells us that she's like this and you watch her do things one after the other with no time to pause.
Other characters also don't really have discernable motives, they just hang like props as the plot arcs towards its pessimistic conclusion.
Like you can write a book that comes down to "emotionally unstable people make bad decisions". I like early Zadie Smith and Don Delilo for goodness' sake! Those characters are like universally awful people but they're interesting.
This is such an odd book, really. If you go look on Goodreads you'll see a bunch of reviews that are basically "I just didn't like the main character".
Which, and I don't want to presume other people's feelings, I don't think is exactly the problem. It's not just that she's self-centered and self-destructive, because those can be good traits for a character, it's that her self-destructive behavior feels less and less well-developed as the novel goes on.
She doesn't just impulsively do things to guarantee her freedom, at the cost of everything she finds good in life, it's that the book just tells us that she's like this and you watch her do things one after the other with no time to pause.
Other characters also don't really have discernable motives, they just hang like props as the plot arcs towards its pessimistic conclusion.
Like …
This is such an odd book, really. If you go look on Goodreads you'll see a bunch of reviews that are basically "I just didn't like the main character".
Which, and I don't want to presume other people's feelings, I don't think is exactly the problem. It's not just that she's self-centered and self-destructive, because those can be good traits for a character, it's that her self-destructive behavior feels less and less well-developed as the novel goes on.
She doesn't just impulsively do things to guarantee her freedom, at the cost of everything she finds good in life, it's that the book just tells us that she's like this and you watch her do things one after the other with no time to pause.
Other characters also don't really have discernable motives, they just hang like props as the plot arcs towards its pessimistic conclusion.
Like you can write a book that comes down to "emotionally unstable people make bad decisions". I like early Zadie Smith and Don Delilo for goodness' sake! Those characters are like universally awful people but they're interesting.
Presents the complete adventures of the demon-turned-paranormal-investigator, beginning with his attempts to discover his own origins.
