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When you need a light dose of misogyny after reading a contemporary found-family fantasy and a memoir focused on intersectionality, who better to turn to but Roth?

And I’m already laughing out loud by page 25.

The 1950s were so weird. Like, who sees mushroom cloud over all the major cities in your state and then decides to go to their job that morning as a bank teller. ☠️

The narrator's accent in this is so bad. But this is exactly the kind of thing I like listening to on audio at 2.5 speed. lol

I'm reading all the tiktok books from 5 years ago, I guess.

Sure! Why not?

The first half was so slow. But once they got into that aqueduct, I was hooked.

Zuck sweats a lot and his people have to carry around blotters for him. Glad I know that now.

Pamela Anderson reads Djuna Barnes!!

The last 10 hours or so of this have been awful. Just terrible. Like a coked up fever dream version of The Goonies. And if I have to hear one more time about how Beverley's "breasts" or "coltish" legs are feeling, I'm going to lose it. I've never rooted so hard for the villain. If I were It, I'd be picking these kids off one at a time, too. Richie's Mexican accent alone earns him a death sentence.

Blech!

I don't know if you know this, but this book is long.

I just got through a chapter on Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. Does anything sound as stupid as Buffy plots written out?