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I am seeing a lot of myself and my experiences reflected in this book. However, it badly needs feminist analysis. The idea that men are 'visual creatures' is lazy thinking. "Good health" is not a morale imperative either. If I read 'females' one more time, I'm going to gouge out my eyes.

Good information, still formulating thoughts.

I read a couple reviews and decided to bail on this one. I'm dodging this confrontation. Onto book 3!

Super long book, yet very enjoyable. A little meandering however, though no offputtingly so.

Very readable. Good info broken down in a way non-academics can understand. Plus, free!

Yeah, I give up. Interesting, but too far reaching.

The sexist, and junk science aspects of this book are getting in my nerves. For instance he does an experiment abt decisions while aroused. He only uses hetero males 18+ (bc they're 'simpler') and then extrapolates their response to the entire population. Then throws in some junk abt reptilian brain and priests raping kids as being in this category.

I'm reading this at a pretty good clip. That isn't typical for me when I'm enrolled. Sure if I have a week break or something, I'll plow through; however, I can't get into a book if I have to read in small spurts. So it seems like I'm diggin' it.

I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would, though I find it hard to follow.

I love this comic. There is a council of cats!

I can't even finish this. It was just not very good at all.

Eh, the first story was mediocre, though the second a bit better. We'll see.

I feel stalled on this one. It's like this guy is unnecessarily poetic and cryptic.

I'm having a hard time getting into it. I can't place why.

Slowly but surely chugging away.

Great book so far. A little slow to start; however, it's shaped up nicely. Best book of the year... so far. ;)

A lot of typical white male nonsense. Yet I like the overviews and quick history it provides.

Only 100 pages left!

The repetitive story of men fucking ghosts and foxes is getting old.

I started this months ago, yet never went back to it. Now I'm starting again, yay!

Great collection of stories. I'm enjoying it all so far.

Poorly written, yet engaging in plot and characterization. Cheesy ending from the last chapter.

Not very engaging writing, yet interesting world. I'm not thrilled about all the accented dialogue. Also, the constant focus on him having "a girl's" name is annoying me. Though I'm not sure why. I'll probably read the next book.

Not much good to talk about with this book. Though I'm invested now so I'm not sure I want to stop.

Love the world of monsters, and the protagonist being a foundling. I'm not sure about the steampunkness.

I don't think I'm ready for a book like this yet, maybe ever.

I've stalled on this book because it has no citations. Many of the ideas expressed are taken from other activists in the field, yet no credit is given. Even the science Ragen argues isn't cited. This confuses me since she repeatedly demands citations from others. I've contacted her over a month ago, and she promised to respond, yet I've heard nothing. Very disappointed.

I'm working on the surveys. They don't necessarily fit my situation, and I find them a bit confusing. Whether the attributes listed are positive or negative is largely subjective, which causes difficulty for me to classify one way or the other. I would have liked more attention to be paid to this. If a reader doesn't fit exactly with what Dr. Pearson is going for, is this assessment going to help?

I'm finding this book too dense and overwhelming for me at this time. So I'm going to put it away for now.