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stylistically alright, formally awesome (maybe in both the old-fashioned literal sense and the male teenage skateboarding sense), content fine but definitely shining moments!
— Dec 10, 2025 09:19AM
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Ch12 rocks. Clever, fun, exciting. At times really feels like a slideshow done by an odd child; at others strays into a cadence that feels too elevated (238, 251, 273, 286), but basically convincing. Timing of Rob reveal (272) feels great. Alison has her own imagined visit from the goon squad on 299, which is cool. Desert as pause also cool. Pauses are good topic for book so much about time.
out of characters :(
— Dec 12, 2025 08:41PM
out of characters :(
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So far style and content are only sorta interesting to me.
Very well written in that it’s easy to read.
Chapter 4, section 2 is fun and clever: starting to see the vision.
— Dec 08, 2025 09:45AM
Very well written in that it’s easy to read.
Chapter 4, section 2 is fun and clever: starting to see the vision.
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Dec 10, 2025 09:19AM
“the general should be linked to a movie star… What better way to humanize a man who seemed inhuman? If he’s good enough for her… That was one line of thinking. And also: the general and I have similar tastes: her. Or else: she must find that triangular head of his sexy. Or even: I wonder how the general dances? … It didn’t matter how many thousands he’d slaughtered – if the collective vision of him could include a dance floor, all would be behind him.”
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Egan sometimes overexplains , like bottom of 149-150 the SH scars really don’t need to be explained by the characters and the explanations really just reduce the impact of the reveal imo
like, some explanation is good to draw the connection between the scars and the party, but i would’ve liked it to be more subtle: egan doesn’t allow the reader to feel like they are discovering things
