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I didn’t love it. Long and short, the voice did not resonate with me, though the idea for the book is brilliant

Politics coming in hard. This book is a slog

Necessary

I want everyone to read this book. Gritty, tough, beautiful in its resiliency.

Oof that was a long one

Dang.

powerful stuff

A fun tale.

This such a sweet, funny little book.

Always enjoyable to read old travel books. This is a bit more than, too.

In a lot of ways, I hate this book. I detest the writer. I feel her approach to backpacking is reckless and offensive. But also, I just started and I know I’ll read it quickly, all the way through.

I was expecting the worst, but was pleasantly surprised.

Best of Larry brown to this point. Less gore, more suspense.

So far, id recommend this for newly out folks and allies

This is the book never ends...

Funny that I used to love Dreiser so much. He’s not doing much to retain my favor with this one, yet

It’s taking me awhile to get through this one, but the second book moves a bit quicker

Certainly dated in a number of ways, though still worth reading. One of my biggest criticisms is how masculinity (gender) remains tied to sexuality, which is somewhat addressed in the text. There is, however, a complete blindness toward bisexuality.

This book sucks. Worst book on top 100 novels list so far, ugh

I don’t read a lot of mysteries, but if they were all so well done, I might! Brought it on a camping trip with me this weekend, and it was perfect (outsdoorsman in the Ukraine winter).

Having an unspeakably difficult time getting through this novel. It may be getting easier

I’m not doing well with reading this year, but this novel put some pep in my step

So achingly beautiful and hilarious. A fantastic story About history, resilience, and love

Roughgarden has some damn intense ideas about psychology—this coming from a licensed mental health professional with a very strong distaste for the medical model. She’s strong on the hard science, which isn’t shocking because she is a scientist. She’s more shoddy on the “soft science.” I guess all those qualitative/quantitative divide discussions apply here. She’s not wrong about historical abuses, though

This was my least favorite Betty smith novel. It was very sweet, though.

This book was a flaming bag of poo. All the bad things

A wealth of knowledge in this tome. The writing style is not very friendly, but it’s worth working through

I finished a book!!!