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@otts This is great to hear. I haven't read any of Wells' fantasy yet, and I get easy overwhelmed by proper nouns lol.

I've only read one small quote and had my eyes feather over the jacket, picking up just enough words to be sure this book is entirely up my alley. 👀

Friend who's a big activist lent this to me. Excited to get into my first actual cli-fi novel.

The presentation is really interesting; super minimal, no quotation marks or chapter headings -- it's all just from the protagonist's perspective/retelling. No exposition that I can see, you just have to figure out what things are by context.

Reading kind of like a diary so far.

I enjoyed it. Though even on close reading, it went absolutely over my head. I feel like this book does its readers a minor disservice by not recommending some prerequisite reading.

I struggled through most of the book to connect the phantasmic imagery to real scenes or projects, but maybe that's me missing the point--maybe the point of this book is the dialectic between two experts, focusing on fundamental structures of their field?

I don't know what book I would recommend as an intro to queer literary studies, but it's not this one.

I do think this book would probably be great if read by a group, or studied by a class, but as a solitary endeavour it's a bit of a bear.

So like the titular subject, probably better experienced with friends.

All over the place. Fun and exciting at times, achingly dull and cliched at others. Totally unbelievable, many chase scenes, shallow romance subplot, male gaze-y descriptions of every female character, much gadgets, kind of a lot of product placement, and what feels like a denouement that was hacked into a press piece for some stealth watercraft with an eye-rolling acronym.

I won't lie and say I didn't enjoy it, but there wasn't exactly a lot of soy on the bean on this one. It's a Hollywood blockbuster that goes down easy if you don't think too hard.