Kinsey

The first book is so good! So many favorite moments!

Friends made: Shanks, Cody and Zoro.
Enemies defeated: Local Sea Monster that ate Shanks' arm, pirate captain Iron Mace Alvida, Helmeppo (he's so pathetic can he even be included lol) marine Captain Axe-Hand Morgan (Zoro lands the final blow though, in one of my favorite moments ever and calls Luffy Captain for the first time)

omg moments
1. The very first thing Luffy does in the series is stab himself in the face to try and prove to Shanks he's tough enough to go with him out pirating.

2. lots of people die, but two people are explicitly murdered and a few of the marines kill themselves bc they're ordered to?!?!

3. and finally Nami and Buggy are introduced at the end 💕

This book was a pleasure to read and left me feeling satisfied. The story for me was essentially about death and dying, and specifically about our expectations regarding living a full life. The author is an incredibly brilliant man with a deep appreciation of life and this story left me reminded of the inherent amazingness of our little lives. DFTBA

This book is very good. All that's good about it has already been said by others. The only concern I have is at one point David Finch references a study by Baron-Cohen that suggests Asperger's is the result of an extreme male brain. This can only feed the idea that Asperger's is a male condition or an exaggeration of male characteristics. The reason Asperger's has been described as ‘acting like a guy' is not because of an extreme male brain but because our social constructs of gender teach men to be detached and egocentric with no empathy.