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The horrifying existence of chatGPT gives "Trurl's electronic bard" a few new things to say about the world today

I would really appreciate it if historical fiction authors would stop making fucking stupid comments about corsets, but here we are again

So far I feel I’m reading a thriller written from the POV of an unreliable narrator who is revealed to be the killer in the final twist. Good lord

I don't think I've ever had this many complaints about a book in such a short span of time. I think it's because I'm more pretentious than the author.

How can I be halfway through this book and still somehow in the introduction?

Listen, if you rhyme “grass” with “face”, I will pronounce it “fass” in my brain and I Will Want to throw the book out of the window

Ah, remember the 80s? *sighs dreamily* A utopian time when every single problem that ever plagued humanity had been resolved. Bless Anne Rice's heart.

Would love to know why Lestat is now "resolute that [he] will not drink innocent blood" in the most unexpected out of character choice I've seen for a long time. What is happening

It's not much of a spoiler because the book opens by telling you what's going on and the detective has to catch up, but spoiler warning: so far it's similar to "Nothing Lasts Forever" (The X-Files, S11, E9) but a lot more boring. And of course, there's the obligatory alcoholism, tired commentary on the pandemic and the general state of the political landscape in the US. It's not thrilling me so far.

For those keeping track, chapter 11 is the one in which he goes on the longest, most racist rant so far.

I had no idea this had been written by Sylvia Plath's daughter, so now I'm even more curious about it.

It's been three chapters. Three chapters only. Why are we already talking about fat women's bodies like this? Murakami please. I am begging you.

Surprisingly violent in an unexpected way, so far.

Today was not the day I figured I would find out that this year’s Nobel Medicine Prize winner is a bisexual man, but it sure made my day. This man is a legend. Incidentally, the woman who’s one of the three recipients of the Chemistry Nobel is also queer!

Andrew Bevan is insufferable and tragically his essay is one of the longest.

Very confused why anybody would ever feel sorry for Baron Ochs, but interesting way to show us who the character is