Status Updates From Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kov...

I also found out this guy’s a terf, which should be ironic considering the premise of this novel. But so far, this book does nothing to explore the separation of mind and body its premise of switching bodies to live forever invokes, from a gender (or any other) lens. No surprise that an author unable to address the elephant in the room he built would be so unimaginative as to become a reactionary gender enforcer.

Sexual in the bland and misogynistic way only a straight man could write. I love sex in art. Big smut fan. I could only roll my eyes at the juvenile, tweenage horniness of this book’s protagonist. Coming off descriptively filthy, guttural, disturbingly arousing depictions of sex in the string of queer horror books i’ve been reading, this reads like a 12 year old googling “boobs” for the first time