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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
PostPosted: Wed August 14, 2019 2:55 pm 
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I'm like 50 pages in, is it worth it? I wanted to see if the hype was deserved.

I loved it, yeah. But if you're not feeling the first 50 pages, you probably won't care much for the rest of it.


Rad. I'm definitely enjoying it so far, the start was a little slow but there's a buried weirdness in her narrator's observations that doesn't not remind me of Ottessa Moshfegh

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Totally. There's also an Atwood-ness (thinking Edible Woman and Surfacing specifically) to it that obviously appealed to me. I hope you dig the rest of it.


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durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
I'm like 50 pages in, is it worth it? I wanted to see if the hype was deserved.

I loved it, yeah. But if you're not feeling the first 50 pages, you probably won't care much for the rest of it.


Rad. I'm definitely enjoying it so far, the start was a little slow but there's a buried weirdness in her narrator's observations that doesn't not remind me of Ottessa Moshfegh

:nice:

Totally. There's also an Atwood-ness (thinking Edible Woman and Surfacing specifically) to it that obviously appealed to me. I hope you dig the rest of it.


Finished it tonight. I enjoyed it enough to finish it, obviously, but the second half felt tedious in a way that the first half didn't, and some of the things I liked about the narrative voice disappeared. I'd read another novel of hers but I'm not itching for it.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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I also think the whole thing about her being the voice of the millennial generation is unfounded. What, so there are emails in the text?

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Mickey wrote:
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Mickey wrote:
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Mickey wrote:
I'm like 50 pages in, is it worth it? I wanted to see if the hype was deserved.

I loved it, yeah. But if you're not feeling the first 50 pages, you probably won't care much for the rest of it.


Rad. I'm definitely enjoying it so far, the start was a little slow but there's a buried weirdness in her narrator's observations that doesn't not remind me of Ottessa Moshfegh

:nice:

Totally. There's also an Atwood-ness (thinking Edible Woman and Surfacing specifically) to it that obviously appealed to me. I hope you dig the rest of it.


Finished it tonight. I enjoyed it enough to finish it, obviously, but the second half felt tedious in a way that the first half didn't, and some of the things I liked about the narrative voice disappeared. I'd read another novel of hers but I'm not itching for it.

I agree about the second half being less than the first. I was expecting it to go off the rails entirely and it pulled back. But I still really enjoyed the thing overall.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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I also think the whole thing about her being the voice of the millennial generation is unfounded. What, so there are emails in the text?

Yeah, I haven't heard any of that talk. But I tend to avoid that kind of hype in general.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Take it to the Let's Judge Books By Their Covers thread.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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I don't plan to finish it, but thumbing through this weekend

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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I'm about 60 percent of the way through, and I like it thus far. I guess my only frustration is that it's a really good book so close to being a great one, and I can't really pinpoint why it's falling short as of yet.


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What's with appropriating the Jean Rhys title?

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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I don't want to start another book until The Testaments drops. I don't think I'll be able to focus on anything until then.


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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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The Testaments by Atwood and I just could not be more excited. :heartbeat:


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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three days early though? who did you bribe?


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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three days early though? who did you bribe?

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Was it Amazon?

No sir.

I have this knack for getting Atwood books early.


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