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Why are we with boys playing "prison"? I swear Le Guin's less a writer than just a scientist putting together a series of thought experiments

The Edge shout-out! That movie is so good!!!

Man, the deer story is just so good. Just so succinct and efficient. Before you know it, you're tense and not even breathing, because Senna's effortlessly tapped some primal fear in you. Lenny's Japanophilia is silly and relatable, but his "we need to get the f out of America" is even more completely relatable

Oh man, is her husband's criticism secretly applying to her as an artist? Also I'm cursed with knowledge. My coworker said <spoiler>that Jane is a villain, and now I can't unsee that</spoiler>

Yellow stars? What's that referring to

Can't tell if the editor is right patronizing or full of bs

Just started but I love the writing. The phrasing is hilarious at times. Love the frank discussion of race, it's very private and casual in the way you can only use when you feel safe. Really dig the messy relationship between the couple and their neurodivergent children

David Tennant!!

I have no idea how far I am in this, but why does this sound like Jone's firsthand account visiting a convention for the first time

I love Skelly. What a Cassandra figure who is right about everything but completely unable to convince anyone he's right

Love a new weird alien life form

I don't think I've ever read a story with so many red heads

Wow this is mad

"you want to protect others from our fates as much as I do. And you may not want to do it with violence, but... gods, what other choice do we have now? We can spout a lifetime of words and they will echo and fade. And history will not remember a single one. I don't like it either, but when power is so entrenched, so impossibly distant, blood becomes the only possible currency of change."

Man this sequel

"It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing."

This guy gives big Palpatine energy

"Greed is by definition the moral ruler of the Hierarchy... All decisions are based upon it. It is not the strong who benefit in their system... it is the weak. It is the ones who are willing to do anything, sacrifice anything, to rise. It rewards avarice and is so steeped in a wrong way of thinking that those within it cannot even see it..."

"The weak and poor endure a hierarchy because the alternatives are harder, not because there are none. They know the system is wrong, but they choose to not think or speak up or act, because ultimately hope that in their silence they will gain. Or at the very least, not give more than what they have already given. They are driven by myopic self interest and greed as much as the senators..."

"I know you understand that our world does not run on merit alone. I chose you because I expected there to be obstacles. That is what separate us... There is those who see what should be and complain they do not get their due. And there are those who see what is, and figure out how to use it to their advantage. Or at the very least overcome it."

"You can't expect to be promoted just because you should be. The republic rewards people who take, not who deserve."

Apparently 3 million won is about 2000 dollars today

Oooh okay. So that's what's going on

The unreliable narrator and withholding of information is more obnoxious and teasing than intriguing and mysterious

What is going on in this story

It's like viewing an adoption from the animals point of view

"I'm at least three quarters straight .."

I love changing it to the audiobook version 5 times before it sticks. Never change, Goodreads

Please Goodreads, why do I have to set the audiobook version 2-3 times before it sticks?