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I FUCKING HATE THIS BOOK

Phew. I can't believe how much pent-up rage there is. FUCK IT WHEN IT WAS THOUGHT OF, FUCK IT WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN, FUCK IT WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED, FUCK THE MOMENT IT WAS CHOSEN FOR BOOK CLUB AND IF I EVER KEEP READING A DNF BOOK OUT OF CURIOSITY -- FUCKING STOP. Letting it out feels book. FEELS *GOOD. FUCK. Will add the explanation in the review when I get to the laptop.

What the fuck did I just read. And I thought the beginning of John Wick went hard

‘So, and this was quite brilliant of me, I joined his class again — and destroyed his thesis. Again. Aren’t I awesome? Sure, his course crashed and burned and everyone joined my course, but I was right!’

This sounds like another socratic superstar (looking at you Mr. Franklin) making enemies and turning the ‘simpletons’ against himself.

‘No, but listen, I joined my famous rhetorics teacher’s school and wordily thrashed his arguments on a regular basis, that he aimed to destroy my career after leaving. Can you believe it?

’And even though I pulled through and made my own school, while I was sick from overwork, he got promoted and started putting rules in place against me. Can you believe that?!’

Whooo, some things are old and some things are really old

‘You’re exactly like your mother’ such a last century insult. It works, but it’s like bringing a Blueberry to a phone call

Trepp is such a funny psycho

Saviour with a flamethrower will never not get my feelings all mushy <3

‘I’m a shit detective’

‘No worries, here’s some superpower (Envoy Intuition)’

Philosophy starts with ‘what is this, why is this?’ but ideally it continues with hypotheses or answers. Why me, why her, why this sleeve, why that sleeve? Make and effort, show some attempt at original thought.

‘In the Envoy corps you take what is offered’

How very James Bond. She offered, no worries, my partner is alive and prisoner, her partner is alive and prisoner, I’m sure no one would object to it

You can take 50% of the waffling in this book and make it easier to read; it’s so annoying to find cool concepts drowned in Takeshi Kovacs’ obsession with the state of his penis. Yes, the world is dark and full of porn, can we talk about the murder, now?

PS Fuck you, Curtis, for delaying the story further

Takeshi Kovacs needs to have a plan. Is that too much to ask? Please stop killing people willy-nilly for a second and make a plan and then get to killing people again

Ok, that was mean.

The most unrealistic thing is that he can mind-control his dick to play someone’s mom but it’s still making an appearance every other stream-of-consciousness moment. Please, let’s leave the magic dick alone and focus on plot.

The most unrealistic thing about this book is how many women are after this guy

Can’t tell if it’s satire or the narrator wrote him on purpose. Or he’s a representative dude with mind superpowers and a cyborg body and he forgot his gf’s stack might be out there or that preaching to the cops is a shit way to build rapport. But hey, you might say, for him she died yesterday and he’s just resleeved. Yes, and the Battle of Winterfell happened at night to show off the good CGI, too.

Best argument I’ve read *yet* for Bhuddism and reincarnation, but it’s pants for character consistency. Is it Earthlings? Is it gods? It’s Schroedinger’s multiple personality disorder

I’ll start by thanking all the reading men on dating apps for spreading recommendations around. Dating apps may suck, but you’re doing good work turning them into a cool space. I salute you.

There goes my horror thesis

I think Japanese horror — of which I’ve sampled very little nonetheless — reads the same to me because horror is horror because it has a message and the message is the same:

In Japanese horror, there are two worlds a Matrix’ish bubble of crushing civilisation and the void of animalistic impulse. Rape, necrophilia, murder. The horror is when someone from the bubble is allowed to *see*. It’s pretty bleak

Step slowly away from the mad American, Kenji

Cool story of Savitra but why the original story of wife harming babies appears all over I can’t figure out

Melissa de la Cruz is an atrociously bad writer (even when you’re a teenager), but you can’t doubt her willingness to use anything and everything to plug her atrociously badly written Blue Blood books

Gamer girl: interesting dilemma, bland story
Dancer girl: too vague, ham-fisted in themes and shallow narration of source story