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E.C.
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It's kinda boring how much Brown falls back on Greco-Roman culture to define his society. Especially since the very concept of a Greco-Roman culture is a convenient invention of academics trying to make sense of time
— Sep 24, 2016 02:08PM
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E.C.
is on page 114 of 382
Endings matter in Latin names... Nouns and adjectives have gender. I mean if you're gonna plunder the lexicon at least take its rules too.
— Sep 24, 2016 06:44PM
E.C.
is on page 67 of 382
Even Mary fuckin Shelley didn't use the word grotesque this often
— Sep 24, 2016 05:33PM
E.C.
is on page 47 of 382
After 48 lashes how can he even walk? Or barely mention the pain at all? He literally wonders if people can see his spine through his mutilated back and then he's bandaged and a-okay?
— Sep 24, 2016 05:13PM
E.C.
is on page 39 of 382
Lol why the suddenly inverted sentence structure? His weird stylistic choices make no sense and seem like someone going through the motions of epic tropes rather than understanding how they work
— Sep 24, 2016 04:59PM
E.C.
is on page 33 of 382
Random outdated contractions to make the dialogue sound loftier. Those are always fun.
— Sep 24, 2016 02:38PM
E.C.
is on page 21 of 382
Lol imagine the pioneers arriving to Mars for the first time and going, "Yeah, the redheads should definitely be our cave-slaves," and just shoving them all underground. (I can't think of many genetically viable reasons for them all the be ginger.)
— Sep 24, 2016 02:25PM
E.C.
is on page 21 of 382
Clearly I'm over-thinking this, but for the second time in twenty pages our narrator has used a pejorative "like a girl." How far into the future is this supposed to be? Why is gender still such a strong dividing line? It reads like the author just copy and pasted his own biases and assumptions without thinking about their world building implications
— Sep 24, 2016 02:18PM
E.C.
is on page 5 of 382
The main character is only 16? Hopefully he does some swift growing up in the next 370 pages. I'm sick of teenagers in sci-fi inexplicably acting like adults.
— Sep 24, 2016 01:44PM
