PHENOMENAL. This book, the breadth of it is just...amazing. I listened to it on audio book and I cannot wait to get the hard copy so I can read it again, more slowly. It is so rich with detail. I learned so much about the last 100 years of history - from the eugenics movement to the start of fandoms and radio and the internet - and how Autism intertwines with all of it. Amazing, amazing, amazing, cannot recommend enough.

This book was amazingly on point for the subject matter it tackled. I was hesitant to read it - the title was a huge turn-off for me - but I'm so glad I did. Honestly, if it were by an unknown author, I probably would never have picked it up, but I liked Tweak - Sheff's memoir - so I figured I'd give it a go. Fantastic read.

The plotline was pretty good, but it was hard to get past the terrible representation of the LGBT+ community. A lot of anti-feminist messages and anti-LGBT messages made it difficult to get through.

I can't bring myself to give a Harry Potter story a 1-star rating....but I'm not sure it deserves a 2-star rating. The first half was passable - reading as decent fanfiction, with a good bit of pandering, but not awful.
The second half (Part 2, specifically from the end of Part 2 Act III onward) was....awful. Abhorrent. It reminded me of particularly bad fanfiction. I was reminded, in one scene, of My Immortal. It made me so angry that the story was reduced to such a shredding of canon fact. I finished the book, but it was hard. And I am sad. And it is, for me, fanfiction. It will never be canon in my eyes.