Chrissy D.

I like thrillers but also what

Reviewed: 01-25-23

I considered not finishing this one. I’ll put my qualms in bullet points.

-Characters were not described very thoroughly and there were several minor characters that became jumbled or confused throughout the book

-The setting would change rapidly with absolutely no introduction or information. All of a sudden they’re on a patio. Where is this patio? Are they home now? Is it the end of the day? Who’s to say.

-There were major threads that were just left hanging and ignored altogether. You would get a strand of a clue, and then for the rest of the book they would 100% ignore this clue. It happened multiple times.

-The emotions of the characters felt repetitive. The characters altogether were repetitive. They would react the same way to everything the whole time.

-The pacing of the book was unique and had room to be exciting. But it felt like the climax was at the middle of the book and the whole last half was oddly disjointed tedium weirdly summarized in the last 10 minutes.

I have more questions than I have answers at this point. Idk. Read it if you want.

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Look I liked it a lot ok

Reviewed: 08-17-22

Ok so do you like murder mysteries? Maybe Murder on the Orient Express type things? Do you like plot lines were characters keep overlapping in new and unexpected ways? WELL I DO. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE.

IT’S A CONTAINED, WHODUNNIT, CRIME THRILLER, WITH LIKE IDK SERENDIPITY VIBES?? I DON’T KNOW, BUT I ENJOYED MYSELF.

THANKS, LUCY, HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.

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Antique Incel

Reviewed: 07-19-22

I finished this book out of spite.

This reads exactly like incel Reddit posts. Man thinks “herd mentality” is a plague, but later laments his lack of friends. Man thinks all women are inherently stupid and corrupt, but later says femininity is in danger and must be protected. Man regrets German nationalism, but later says that they should probably keep Jews out just to be safe.

What a quack. Zero stars. Only read for spite fuel.

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Great presentation!

Reviewed: 05-01-22

I read this book because I wanted to learn more about yoga and its cultural importance. This particular translation was very helpful to me as it split up the story with instructional prefaces. It tied together many western ideas that I was already familiar with so the “new” concepts would make more sense. I’ll still probably have to read it a few more times before I fully absorb everything, but I think it was great!

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The DRAMA

Reviewed: 04-05-22

I think this is a solid 4 star book for me. The plot has good elements and is surprising. However, the build-up was like 3/4 of the book. Just the same back and forth back and forth for hours, and then the peak then is revealed extremely quickly, I think. I thought about not finishing this because it was the same thing for 6 hours, but I wanted to get to the bottom of it!!!!! I did, but not without annoyance.

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Required listening

Reviewed: 03-06-22

I wish this was assigned to me in my high school government class. The way this was framed makes every political talking point make more sense. I’m infuriated, but enlightened.

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Glad it’s short

Reviewed: 02-17-22

There were maybe two or three good poems in here. The rest really just felt like an angsty 12-year-old. There was literally a poem that was just “Link: in bio.” I’m sorry, it’s a no.

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Good, with flaws

Reviewed: 01-05-22

This book was a helpful start to unpacking some stuff, in my opinion. However:

-Production was kind of super not great and was sometimes distracting
-The whole brand of this book being curse-y at times felt forced, and also stepped into bad AAVE, which felt weird
-The chapter on what to eat went way off base, claiming that wheat products are GMO and that causes dietary problems so to eat corn instead (GMO wheat is not commercially available in the US and almost all corn in the US is GM). Kind of a weird thing to nitpick at, I know, but it very much made me question the accuracy of the rest of the claims in the book.

So: fine, but not my favorite.

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Felt like an indie movie

Reviewed: 11-09-21

I downloaded this book thinking it would be more comical. It was funny, but in an indie movie type of way. Funny if you thought about it, but mostly just melancholy and mildly unsettling.

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Interesting, but also a bit confusing

Reviewed: 10-28-21

I enjoyed this book and learned a lot. Both it’s strength and weakness is that it’s written from so many points of view. As a collection of stories from many people, it’s very effective in explaining different movements and capturing the culture of the time. However it was a bit hard to keep track of who was “talking” while listening to this book. I’m not sure that there would be a good fix for this, but just be aware of that going in. Each essay starts off with who wrote it and it will make more sense if you remember who is who.

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