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Interest is beginning to flag not gonna lie. I'm waiting for this book to come online

Enjoying it so far. It's been a while since I read some climate dystopian fiction.

Just finished STAG DANCE and it was a slog to get through. The writing tries to be too clever most of the time and I'm pretty sick of the trans girl self-hatred that's integral to each story. I feel like a bad queer for not liking this book.

I came into this book with wrong expectations. I expected lofty literary writing with flourishes and curlicues and was disappointed when I didn't get it. Once I reframed this book from literary fiction to horror genre writing I immediately forgave it for the delighted torture it's put me through.

Still not entirely sold on it yet, though. I haven't found the beauty in its frank prose yet (skill issue perhaps?).

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters was pretty alright, but Seymour, an Introduction annoys me to no end. While Salinger is a good stylist, I am unfortunately over 30 and am thus impervious to his navel-gazing. A shame, since I remember liking The Catcher in the Rye, but maybe Franny and Zooey is a better read?

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters was pretty alright, but boy howdy does Seymour, an Introduction suck ass. I'm around 40% of the way through it and man is it masturbatory. My patience for loser authors grows thinner every page I read. Sorry to the Salinger lovers out there! I'm in my 30s now.