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Ok, the incel bullshit (enraging) and the clear communist bent (understandable) have me deeply annoyed thus far. Actual line "there are no perfect people, let alone women." Women aren't people according to this author. Cool. Cool.

This is so far a disappointing follow up to The Three Body Problem.

This book is filthy. 😳 And funny.

"Nobody is immune to thinking they might be wasting their only life on a place that can toss you out without a second thought. This will be a reminder to anyone who ever suspected a company gave a shit about them."

Capatalism man. Soul sucking coroporate bullshit. Sue nailed it.

"Hey don't worry, he's not that tragic. Sounds like Supershops is way better than his insurance HR gig last year. He complains so much less."

This book is triggering allll the feels about the insane, crap, awful, no-good, shit job I worked approx 13 years ago. Cubicle farm, toxic environment, incompetent/mean leadership, folders called "cover my ass", the whole nine yards.

The MC just defrosted perogies AND THEN MICROWAVED THEM.

What.
The.
Actual.
Hell?!?!??!?!

Oh no, heaven forbid our MC EAT A WHOLE BOWL OF SOUP! This bullshit gets so old.

3% in and already fatphobia, and other related bullshit. Ffs.

She talks of medical consent as if it's a given today. I am so shocked that she's so blind to actual conditions happening to people on the daily. Does this woman have her head buried in sand?

So to be clear, she is more disgusted and upset that someone would make up a story about a book being bound in human skin to make more money than she is about ACTUAL HUMAN SKIN BEING USED TO BIND BOOKS!?!?!

Is this woman ok? Like keep pets and small children away from her, because she's clearly a nut.

She is filled with disgust b/c someone would pass off a fake to collectors and museums! Wait til she hears about how people would perform indigities to a corpse just to use the person's skin as leather to bind a book!
Oh wait...

"they have important lessons to teach us".

I'd like to know what Rosenbloom thinks about confederate statues too.

Chapter 5: Paul Needham
"...which Needham had described as a post-mordem r*pe" "There were many examples of books bound in human skin that didn't involve women", I pointed out. And alluded to my discomfort with ascribing sexual intent to the doctor who created the book..."

MEN CAN BE R*PED TOO YOU psycho!

Fuck. Second person, present tense? Really? Why?!

Stay tuned as to whether I punt this to DNF or hate-read this nonsense.

And here starts our cozy winter project. Listening to LOTR by the fire, snuggled with our pups.

14% in and I'm already happy. I hope I stay happy.

"In the last decades of the 20th century, as the justice system was adopting a series of abrasive policies that would swell police forces and fuel the prison boom, it was leaving policing responsibilities to... civilians"

Cops get bucks, women get beat, raped, and threatened and in response are called nuisances and get evicted.

Holy Moley, chapter 15 got me big mad.

"Then they started to move around the whole world in colonies looking for freedom and isolation and peace and opportunities to sell cheese." Snort.

This book is so stupid. I hate it.

This book is going to be so good. I'm already enthralled.

Oh boy.

The audio version is not good. The author is the narrator. She's bad at it. It's an actual art form. Listen, if you're going to read your own book, you need to actual like your own book.

1) you can't refinance a home without the co-owner
2) child support for fuck sakes
3) a Manhattan hotel room for under $150 pre-pandemic during the first week of summer. What? Is this woman an adult?
4) Is this Amy an adult? Like it seems like she's 20. What?!
5) FATPHOBIC BULLSHIT
6) Momspringa? Give me. A. Fucking. Break.


Is this author 21? Because that's how it reads. It's boring and insulting to the reader.

I fucking hate this fatphobic, noninclusive, stupid fucking book.

I will finish it because it's for book club.

Hate. Hate.

Hoo boy, this is a slog.