Didn't really get the hype of this one. I guess it says something about the alienation of our current world? IDK tried to say something without saying it for me.
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realityasylumreads finished reading Perfection by Sophie Hughes
realityasylumreads finished reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Damn, where do I start? Probably that I hated this book. I should have know it was shit when some normie dude at a B&N in the suburbs told me it was his favorite book unsolicited and when I asked him what else he reads there was a long pause and look of panic. This book is the hunger games for dudes who don't read and want to think they do. Violence was boring and mostly gratuitous. Clearly written by a liberal who has no idea what revolutionary politics are.
Damn, where do I start? Probably that I hated this book. I should have know it was shit when some normie dude at a B&N in the suburbs told me it was his favorite book unsolicited and when I asked him what else he reads there was a long pause and look of panic. This book is the hunger games for dudes who don't read and want to think they do. Violence was boring and mostly gratuitous. Clearly written by a liberal who has no idea what revolutionary politics are.
realityasylumreads finished reading Luminous by Silvia Park
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realityasylumreads finished reading Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
realityasylumreads finished reading Casanova 20 by Davey Davis
realityasylumreads finished reading The Guest by Emma Cline
realityasylumreads finished reading Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
I'd probably read a book about what Carol Adams' thoughts on one. I think the general story of this book is inventive, but the violence it depicts is not. I looked up to see if Bazterrica was vegan and found an article saying she went vegan after watching Earthlings, which explains why the violence in this books feels so familiar. As I read the book I continually thought to myself "yeah, that's how it happens". Knowing Bazterrica is vegan softens the resentment I felt towards it, but it still feels a little lazy. Maybe thats the point, on the nose metaphors (?) to paint the picture of the horrors animals suffer in slaughter houses and labs.
Something about this book's popularity doesn't sit well with me. Not because it isn't deserved, but because a man on the train who saw me reading it told me how much he liked …
I'd probably read a book about what Carol Adams' thoughts on one. I think the general story of this book is inventive, but the violence it depicts is not. I looked up to see if Bazterrica was vegan and found an article saying she went vegan after watching Earthlings, which explains why the violence in this books feels so familiar. As I read the book I continually thought to myself "yeah, that's how it happens". Knowing Bazterrica is vegan softens the resentment I felt towards it, but it still feels a little lazy. Maybe thats the point, on the nose metaphors (?) to paint the picture of the horrors animals suffer in slaughter houses and labs.
Something about this book's popularity doesn't sit well with me. Not because it isn't deserved, but because a man on the train who saw me reading it told me how much he liked it while he was eating a bag of Doritos (the point would be better made if he was eating a burger but whatever). I can't comprehend how this book is so popular while the majority of its readers still eat meat.
realityasylumreads finished reading Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
This one wasn't for me. Felt like I wasn't online enough to "get" it? But I'm online a lot so maybe I just don't want to read stories like these? I liked his writing so I'd probably give him another chance
This one wasn't for me. Felt like I wasn't online enough to "get" it? But I'm online a lot so maybe I just don't want to read stories like these? I liked his writing so I'd probably give him another chance
realityasylumreads finished reading Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle (4))
realityasylumreads finished reading Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
realityasylumreads finished reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
realityasylumreads finished reading The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert
I hated this book. Took me 3 weeks to get through it because I couldn't care less about it. I should have stopped reading it 2 weeks ago.
I hated this book. Took me 3 weeks to get through it because I couldn't care less about it. I should have stopped reading it 2 weeks ago.














