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Around page 290 i thought “we’ve got all the hard hitters of insufferable internet lingo here. where’s creepypasta? he’s going to say creepy pasta soon. it’s too easy.”.
chaching !!!!!

“brainrot” has been written. more insanely lazy and tone deaf political imagery. instagram reel ass writing.

“ Owen laughed. “She’s not real. They’re not real. The—the people, they’re…” NPCs. Non-player characters. Just bits of program written into the story, unplayable, interactive only to a point. If we’re the player characters, they’re the non-players. Like fragments of artificial intelligence. “

give me a fucking break

The trauma in this book is so heavy handed and unrealistic to the point that I don’t really feel sympathetic because it’s so overly forced. Adults telling children they were mistakes, they hate them, they don’t care about them, other kids are smarter, they’re a waste of space. It’s just like at 150% and it completely takes me out of it.

internet brain writing style quotes that have bugged me so bad:
“a teen girl who unalived herself”
“He felt a twitter of validation. Senpai noticed me, he thought foolishly.”
“Time to cook, she thought in her best Walter White voice.”
one of the characters is from pgh & the author spells yinz like “yins”
a chapter called “New Room, Who This”
insane overuse of the word “vibes”

i cannot put this book down but there’s also so much i dislike about the writing style. internet-brained writing.

this is a great beach read but now it’s winter and i don’t feel drawn to it. ill come back!