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i havent heard a single good thing about this book. and frankly the heinous name choices are reason enough for me to give this 0 stars

Controversial opinion: Christopher-henry is a cuter name than Kit. But I think I've just run into too many of these gay pseudo historical books w a lead named Kit

i like that conover's approach to these topics is like "idk i just wanna know" like damn

This feels really....fake? Like I cannot shake the feeling that I'm reading fiction. Current AI can be uncanny valley real-feeling, but this is like. Not the same. Idk

"[...] Sing Sing was the ending, at least for a while, to 2300 sad stories. It was staggering to contemplate the accrued tales of dysfunction, pain, and violence that had preceded these prison terms--and, frankly, easier not to. The past seemed like so much noise when you were trying to deal with the difficult present."

incomprehensible to me that they're supposed to keep that they're related to Ai a secret but 1) they openly use her last name 2) they use her idol group name for their own group. Also that last one feels particularly silly since this is about the inner workings of the entertainment industry but they should know that calling themselves a reboot of a famous tragic group is career suicide

i do find it interesting that really the trial is about proving that the complainant is soooo stupid. like really stupid. a huge dumbass. naive to the point of farce. the stupidest woman alive. just a grade a moron.

Ok so I do find it Interesting that the author openly speculates on Gayle's gender identity (trans? Gender fluid?) because of her online male identity, but doesn't contend with how Gayle always used a half Filipino man as her avatar and how that might also play into her Deeply Held Identity Beliefs. One is valid; the other is inherently suspect & invalid & has totally nothing to do with her identity. Why not?

DENSE

look i'm the last person to go to bat for misogynists but the morality in this book is so weird. like turning the brutal dismemberment and murder of these guys into "hehe i choose the bear :P" memery is weird

"The Balrog is falling down and then there's a beat before it grabs Gandalf, and it's physically stupid and the mechanics are goofy, but it was right dramatically. It's a great scene."

wanna watch lotr so bad rn

1) something about the cover and title makes this look like someone's university project. But rly good so far
2) I don't think I've ever encountered a "they should have done THIS in the movie" argument that didn't reveal that the complainer doesn't understand how movies work or how storytelling works

almost exactly 9 years later. we are so fucking back. i read this when i first got hooked on reading again, so everything was amazing and lifechanging and fabulous, so let's see how it goes now that i'm old and cynical

legitimately SO weird to read anything about trump's first term now. like what a weird pocket of time and discourse that is simultaneously so irrelevant and so relevant now