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Gore Vidal in 1948: gay people are just like everyone else: they fall in love, they want families, they develop an obsessive crush with an emotionally unavailable jock & ruin their entire twenties over it
Gore Vidal in 1948: gay people are just like everyone else: they fall in love, they want families, they develop an obsessive crush with an emotionally unavailable jock & ruin their entire twenties over it
challenging
dark
mysterious
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science fiction premise: husband who listens to you and learns from his mistakes
science fiction premise: husband who listens to you and learns from his mistakes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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<i>"Each heartbeat, every breath— is a rejection of death. I already did it, you see?"</i>
Obviously I cried, I'm only mortal, after all
<i>"Each heartbeat, every breath— is a rejection of death. I already did it, you see?"</i>
Obviously I cried, I'm only mortal, after all
dark
emotional
tense
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this novel deserves 25 stars for being five 5-star books in one. nobody else could write a heartwarming queer bildungsroman, a brilliantly-executed thriller, a science fiction dystopia, a comedy of ethics, and an essay about genre conventions ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
this novel deserves 25 stars for being five 5-star books in one. nobody else could write a heartwarming queer bildungsroman, a brilliantly-executed thriller, a science fiction dystopia, a comedy of ethics, and an essay about genre conventions ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
dark
mysterious
sad
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Found myself wishing for ONE paragraph without a metaphor in it, just one. "You'll cut me open and find a garden of rot where my heart should be" OK champ go back to math class
For me, this book came across as indecisive. the poetic abstractions are out of place with the grounded setting. The dialogue & actions of our characters are so unrooted in reality that it's hard to treat them with real stakes. The coming-of-age story demands that Andrew expand his social circle with fellow students who understand him; the queer horror fairy tale demands that the prince of the forest and his lover make a sacrifice to appease its dark appetite. If the forest is symbolic of Andrew's grief, then did that symbol actually cause the death of several people? It felt like I was reading two completely unrelated books, neither one complete or convincing.
Found myself wishing for ONE paragraph without a metaphor in it, just one. "You'll cut me open and find a garden of rot where my heart should be" OK champ go back to math class
dark
mysterious
tense
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Goddamn you see that shit? That was fucking crazy. Anyway I'm Rod Serling
Goddamn you see that shit? That was fucking crazy. Anyway I'm Rod Serling
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
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I do think this novel could have guarded its hand a tad rather than spill its guts about Winnie's jewelry collection and false marriage within the first few pages
I do think this novel could have guarded its hand a tad rather than spill its guts about Winnie's jewelry collection and false marriage within the first few pages
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
informative
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humans are so uncomfortable with randomness that we build machines to detect patterns that don't exist to guide our decisions instead of just flipping a coin.
humans are so uncomfortable with randomness that we build machines to detect patterns that don't exist to guide our decisions instead of just flipping a coin.
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didn't really work for me in theory or in practice. great cover art tho!
didn't really work for me in theory or in practice. great cover art tho!
adventurous
funny
mysterious
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when a middle-grade mystery novel is a better romance than any romance you've ever read
when a middle-grade mystery novel is a better romance than any romance you've ever read