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Oh my god I LOVE this

Not 100% sure this is the actual book I’m reading as mine is an ebook. Comics are so confusing.

This is swiftly becoming a hate-read/listen. The writing is painful, the pacing is leaden, and I profoundly do not care about Addie’s 300 years of experience. Addie and Henry make bafflingly bad decisions. The basic premise is interesting but overwhelmed by lots of not-goodness.

I am, amusingly, not the likely intended audience for this book, as I’m neither a linguist, nor a student of the history of the English language. The author is arguing against a theory that I’m completely ignorant of, and so I accept his argument completely and yet the evidence continues to be presented.

“ could your resentment turn you into a monster? All you needed was a charismatic leader who blamed your misfortune on a common enemy – and not your own failure. If you took a man already miserable and handed him a gov’t mandate and a weapon, would he become evil? Would I?”

Depressingly relevant so far

Oh my, this is *savagely* funny

The sporadic dry British humor in here is completely cracking me up.

Putting this down so I don’t forget: from practically the earliest movements of suffrage in the US, the (white) men in power sought to divide everyone else, forcing ppl to take sides :Should suffrage be granted to white women OR black men?

The overuse of the word “seminal” is driving me bananas and distracting me from the actual content. I’m about a third of the way through the book and there have easily been at least 30 “seminals” so far , ffs.

This is so, so brutal. Such a necessary read. It leaves me shocked and breathless. I can’t read much at a time, the endless injustices pile up and I have to take a break. How strong she is, how strong she has to be.

Trying to be well-rounded in my readings on race, but West is annoying. Holding up Ralph Nader, Al Sharpton and Bernie Sanders as models to emulate holds no truck with me.

I just can't enjoy this book. The main character, Graham, is just such a privileged asshole, so free to cast aspersions on everybody. Why would Audra marry him? Why would anyone find this guy sexy? No empathy for other people, except if they're suffering through the same social situation.

Ugh. This is "The Martian" writ longer. Lots and lots and lots and LOTS of boring technical details. Flat characters whose primary purpose is to move around all the tech. I don't really care about any of them. I will finish this stupid book and I'm irritated that I feel compelled to do so. So there's that.

Really strange. Struggling with the text. It's very awkwardly written and I don't whether the original Chinese reads that way to a Chinese reader or whether the translator is not very good or what. There are definitely intriguing ideas in her, but the more exposition there is, the less I like it.

Not that I plan to make my own puzzles, but because I enjoy them and it's fun to see a bit about how they are put together.

This is infinitely better than Hillbilly Elegy so far.

The poor poor superhero assassin who cries while he kills--eyeroll. This is so stupid. And this assassination scene goes on and on and on and on....

The dialogue is truly cringeworthy. I'm embarrassed to be sticking through to the end. Like The Passage, I definitely won't read any further books in this series.

Only just realized this is book one of ten. This is not nearly good enough for that kind of commitment. As happens so often in these bloated stories, there is an interesting thread in there but it's buried by tons of maddening fluff.

Now it's the Watership Down sacrificial warren. Yawn.

The post-apocalyptic people have a new word for "pants," but they magically held onto the word "hightops" though only young person has a pair.

Slog slog slog
The four-year-old's point of view is ludicrous and completely unnecessary. I'm sure this is her only moment in the story.

This book is loooong.

Over long, soap-opera-y with a poorly constructed villain, but it's fun so far (mostly) and it isn't the election. 'Nuff said.

I love this so much! I have already laughed til I cried.

"If there is a general law of urban criminality here, it's that cities get the types of crime their design calls for."