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the prose is extremely inelegant; it’s so blatantly dumbed down (especially from a human rights lawyer who used to work at the UN) that it must be a ploy to portray her as the salt of the earth and to distract from her complicity as a wealthy Facebook senior staffer. it’s egregiously bad. she’ll write, “I was like, ‘TK,’” instead of “I said, ‘TK.’” distractingly horrible
— Sep 25, 2025 09:43PM
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Sep 25, 2025 09:45PM
she’ll also start sentences with “Like,” out of the blue for no apparent reason other than to appear relatable. i hate this weird, laid-back, “i’m just like you” tone she’s trying to strike. and i hate this broader trend of dumbing down prose to cast a wider net of readership; at this point people who require prose like that haven’t picked up a book in years so let’s just abandon that demographic altogether
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Wow I will say I'm listening to the audiobook and the prose is perfect for that
