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Ha ha of course there's a lesbian in it. Of course there is. So predictable. So exhausting.

The title of this book is a dare that I'm not sure I can accept.

It's quite a stylistic leap to go from Dickens to this. One hundred seventy-eight years or so. My head is spinning.

Now there's another pronoun discussion that shifts trans apologia. Cringe. Does RTD require BF to push his gender ideology in order for them to retain their license?

CRINGE!

Just a few tracks into "Lure of the Zygons" and we get one of those exhausting pronoun discussions, followed by constant references to a they/them character for the next several minutes. I turned it off.

It's the cringiest nonsense ever. It's like pausing for a preachy PSA in the middle of a story. You might as well throw in the record-scratch sound-effect.

That's the way, BF! Make sure to wedge a non-gender-conforming character in there for absolutely no plot reasons. :: Insert hard eye-roll ::

This one's a slog.

Well that suddenly got creepy.

I wanted a quick October read, but adjusting my reader-brain to Bradbury's dense, poetic prose is like trying to swim in quicksand.

The last time I read this, I was probably 16. I expect that re-reading it at age 60 is going to be a completely different experience.