graveyardpansy's reviews
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3.5 stars, pretty on-par w/ Devolution. i love the ideas, but the attempt at real-world commentary falls kinda flat for me, and Brooks isn’t very good at making all the dozens of POVs sound like distinct characters.

2.5 - would be better if it wasn’t a copaganda :/ plus a couple of really outdated racist language bits. the concept is fun! the pacing is weird! the characters are really underdeveloped. those are my main thoughts.

this is rly fun i def appreciated this less than i should’ve as a kid i think

wild time. totally forgot how much random existence/death/happiness philosophy is in this book lmao

if u are gonna read this series; i think this book is objectively unnecessary

i think le Fanu was scared of cats

4.5 — in a way that only Bechdel can, this book combines themes of exercise, relationships, growing up, and... transcendentalism! it’s introspective and tied together really elegantly. i’ve seen some critique that it’s rambling and disconnected, but it works for me, and very much reads like other work by Bechdel. i’m not even interested in exercise as like. a topic. but i do love literature and philosophy and lesbians and memoirs, and this book delivered!

i’m definitely not the target audience for this, but it does what it needs to do!