Carlin
Answered a promptWhat are your favorite books of all time?
insufferable
usually I don't give up on a book, but after the first two chapters I could tell exactly where it was going and it didn't seem like I would enjoy any of it. I skipped a hundred pages to see if maybe that changed further through the book but then gave up when the film exec said "herro" to imitate an asian accent.
Unfortunately I was interested how this book ends and so read the final 50 pages yesterday, which to me is enough to say I finished the book rather than DNFing
This book is so shallow and unsubtle, set in exactly the present day (with references that'll age like milk) but the characters attitudes feel so out of touch with current day discourses.
I'm really surprised that RF Kuang's publishers agreed to publish this. It is literally her making up a strawman of her critics and spending the whole book making sure you know they are stupid. I'm even more surprise how this swept every popular book award last year
I joined this site as I was reading goodreads reviews of this book this morning and someone mentioned the Authors Note of Babel which I found to be both indulgent and petulant. It's really embarrassing for her how much she needs to control how people interact with her work and understand that she knows what she's doing. Her and JKR need to log off if they ever want to write a good book again.
insufferable
usually I don't give up on a book, but after the first two chapters I could tell exactly where it was going and it didn't seem like I would enjoy any of it. I skipped a hundred pages to see if maybe that changed further through the book but then gave up when the film exec said "herro" to imitate an asian accent.
Unfortunately I was interested how this book ends and so read the final 50 pages yesterday, which to me is enough to say I finished the book rather than DNFing
This book is so shallow and unsubtle, set in exactly the present day (with references that'll age like milk) but the characters attitudes feel so out of touch with current day discourses.
I'm really surprised that RF Kuang's publishers agreed to publish this. It is literally her making up a strawman of her critics and spending the whole book making sure you know they are stupid. I'm even more surprise how this swept every popular book award last year
I joined this site as I was reading goodreads reviews of this book this morning and someone mentioned the Authors Note of Babel which I found to be both indulgent and petulant. It's really embarrassing for her how much she needs to control how people interact with her work and understand that she knows what she's doing. Her and JKR need to log off if they ever want to write a good book again.