really underwhelmed :( i did watch the amazon show before reading this which probably skewed my reading a bit - I found the show essentially forgettablreally underwhelmed :( i did watch the amazon show before reading this which probably skewed my reading a bit - I found the show essentially forgettable but it did in retrospect it made some narrative improvements and made the characters a lot more sympathetic. I guess I didn't buy any of the Billy/Daisy chemistry which is the whole crux of the thing. And Camille - who I liked in the show! - comes off very trite and uninteresting in the book. The Karen/Graham subplot made me roll my eyes. Daisy Jones is very fun and very well portrayed - it's actually quite rare to find female force-of-natures/hot-messes in fiction, although I think the focus on her in context is distractingly artificial. Idk! ...more
absolutely gutting! loved it. god the gratifying behaviour, the degradation you go to for the attention of a man!! you can't help but cringe. but it'sabsolutely gutting! loved it. god the gratifying behaviour, the degradation you go to for the attention of a man!! you can't help but cringe. but it's a cringe of self awareness lol ...more
yeah actually reading this book means realizing how off-base the takes about it were. it is bumming me out that people do really take the worst bad-fayeah actually reading this book means realizing how off-base the takes about it were. it is bumming me out that people do really take the worst bad-faith readings and run with it. there is a little irony in me reading this after the whole ana mardoll thing lol
thoughts: - really could benefit from having a trans AFAB perspective as one of the POVs, there are a few mentions of trans men but it'll be interesting to show how the conflict between being a man in a world when the rest of the "men" have gone plays out. - gretchen calling the ending a "morally lazy white woman's guilty flight back to the arms of suburban heterosexual security" is uhhhh confusing. am going to read her book next since from what I understand it's essentially a response to this? - the main character being a (view spoiler)[convicted rapist/pedophile was a really bold but I think really smart choice, a lot is played out re: sexual coercion and female perpetrators etc. the one reviewer who called it offensive to asexual people made me laugh lol (hide spoiler)] - I am unsure how to feel about (view spoiler)[evangelyne's death. going to edit about my thoughts alter (hide spoiler)]...more
somehow gayer than I expected!! - sometimes when reading classics (a very large genre, I know), I am surprised by how readable they are. I think a lot somehow gayer than I expected!! - sometimes when reading classics (a very large genre, I know), I am surprised by how readable they are. I think a lot of older books have a bad reputation for being really esoteric, but Picture of Dorian Gray sometimes reads contemporary. It's also very funny at parts....more
I read this alongside No One Is Talking About This and I had no idea what to think of it. I wasn't sure I even liked it, until I did a lot of reading I read this alongside No One Is Talking About This and I had no idea what to think of it. I wasn't sure I even liked it, until I did a lot of reading re: literary reviews and author interviews. Personally, I found this WIRED article to be the most insightful, although I'm not sure I entirely agree with it. Definitely glad I read both of them and personally this is a book I'm going to keep thinking about....more
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