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a misandrist work that fails the reverse-bechdel test?? my expectations are extraordinarily high rn.

this dude is so atrociously down bad. how are you so deep in the friend zone that you’ve reached the platonic soulmate level. STAND UP.

annotating this profusely and i think by the end i’ll trust these 3 women with my life (i need them to autograph my copy. esp the barnard alum.)

reading this a second time KNOWING what happens alr makes roy’s writing even more genius. the foreshadowing, the genius of the timeline, the ambiguity of everything. top 2 favorite book of all time tbh.

“the only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she’s pretty, and to someone else, if she’s plain” GAGGED.

“all women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy…no man does, that is his” oh okay

oh my god this is literally insane. so 🔥 (pun intended).

i’m about to have to give this two separate ratings for political perspective and just straight literary merit…about to be vastly different, i fear

incredibly interesting: an essential piece of hidden history

LOVING so far.

LOVING so far

ok wait shit is picking up now and sylvie is a little too relatable

probably would’ve dnfed long before this point if i didn’t have a 4 day beach vacation and another 3 hour plane ride. i shed tears because of how hard i yawned LMAOOO.

so far, like the writing style, don’t fw any of the characters, and there is zero chemistry (but that might be intentional, if im reading correctly?). still gonna stick with it though.

“What you know as shame is forgotten
in the belly inside your belly.

Hunger neglects pride
the way fire neglects the cries
of what it burns.”

OCEAN VUONG, ARE YOU EVEN REAL? YOU ARE A WORD SORCERER.

REALLY fw this so far. gonna have to be a train wreck of an ending to lose its 5 star rating from me!!

loving so far

dnfd it

i want to cry for these babies

wow.