She/they. I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.
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8% complete! Remy Rose has read 1 of 12 books.
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god …
Ok, I can't finish this book... I hate to DNF stuff, and I won't rate/review books I haven't actually read fully, but I've lost all interest at this point. I was at the 40% mark.
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god …
Content warning An unholy trifecta of misogyny, racism, and homophobia?
You want to walk into that funeral and have every dude in that room whip their head around and say, 'God-damn them is some fine-ass titties' ... You want every girl in that place to be murderous with jealous rage. Like, I got to get my man outta here before he sees that, and leaves my skinny ass."
— Futuristic violence and fancy suits by David Wong (Page 265)
This is Tre, the stylist who acts/dresses flamboyantly gay even though he isn't, so that he can grope his clients with impunity. He is a good guy, who was hired by the other good guys to dress the main character Zoey, who is traumatized from SA in her past.
This book has had a lot of like ambient level troubling shit so far, but then I got to this interaction and... I mean, am I being overly sensitive?
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life …
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a …
Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular …
John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel written by David Wong that was first published online as …
All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven…
Despite thinking they’ve thwarted the prophecy, …
"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up …
I am determined to finish at least the first book, even though I hate it. Actually, maybe it's because I hate it. I don't like to rate or review books I haven't finished, but I feel compelled to talk about how terrible this book is. The author is a frequent offender on r/menwritingwomen, and for good reason. He claims all the misogyny (among other things) is intentional, because the story is "filtered through the mind & eyes of a 17 year old boy". That's a pretty dubious claim on its face, and it doesn't really explain why all the other characters do and say what they do. Maybe I'll flesh this out more when I finish it.
On the other hand, generally the writing itself is decent enough, even if it gets a little purple prose at times. Just watch the show, it's 1000% better than the source material.
EDIT: …
I am determined to finish at least the first book, even though I hate it. Actually, maybe it's because I hate it. I don't like to rate or review books I haven't finished, but I feel compelled to talk about how terrible this book is. The author is a frequent offender on r/menwritingwomen, and for good reason. He claims all the misogyny (among other things) is intentional, because the story is "filtered through the mind & eyes of a 17 year old boy". That's a pretty dubious claim on its face, and it doesn't really explain why all the other characters do and say what they do. Maybe I'll flesh this out more when I finish it.
On the other hand, generally the writing itself is decent enough, even if it gets a little purple prose at times. Just watch the show, it's 1000% better than the source material.
EDIT: I finally finished it, which was not really worth doing. I think I would mostly describe this book as "Dresden Files but longer for no reason", except at least Harry is poor in that series. Q is equally as misogynistic and then incredibly wealthy to boot. Oh, and the author's justification turns out to fall extra flat because by the end of the book, he is very much not 17 anymore, but still very much an incel.
"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to …
“Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”
Tina never worries about being 'ordinary'--she doesn't …
About Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs …
Rylla McCracken dreams of escaping her family's trailer in the Dust States to go to …
Rylla is kind of the worst, but in like, a way that I think may be intentional. She's on a journey like Candide, and similarly you spend most of the book thinking "No! You dumbass, what are you doing?!", etc. All the other characters mostly introduce and weigh the merits of tons of different solutions to the earth dying, but I think you can really tell which ones get the book's stamp of approval. I think the author of this and the authors of Half Earth Socialism would get in a fight, because this book seems to lean into banking on ridiculous tech "solutions" that probably will never materialize and might easily cause more harm than good. But I don't know nothing about nothing, so maybe I read into it wrong.
EDIT: I thought about it and I think I was wrong. The primitivists were a valid critique and the …
Rylla is kind of the worst, but in like, a way that I think may be intentional. She's on a journey like Candide, and similarly you spend most of the book thinking "No! You dumbass, what are you doing?!", etc. All the other characters mostly introduce and weigh the merits of tons of different solutions to the earth dying, but I think you can really tell which ones get the book's stamp of approval. I think the author of this and the authors of Half Earth Socialism would get in a fight, because this book seems to lean into banking on ridiculous tech "solutions" that probably will never materialize and might easily cause more harm than good. But I don't know nothing about nothing, so maybe I read into it wrong.
EDIT: I thought about it and I think I was wrong. The primitivists were a valid critique and the wastrels were the steelman version of that take on the apocalypse. And the book is very critical of tech solutions actually.
