I'm from the U.S. and read this book for the third or so time in the wake of the Trump presidency. There's something I find comforting about the horror in this book because of its underlying familiarity; it hurts me more than any media ever has, but it also feels bizarrely comforting. It made me think some scenes were kind of hot and then spiral for at least a few minutes over why I would think that. Overall, I will probably read it again (and again, and again.)
truly such an onslaught of horror, fucked me up bad. so many things caught me totally off-guard & plunged me into levels of dread i didn't know existed!! crazy, sickening, piercing look at failures of solidarity & selfhood. the whole time i was waiting for a reckoning & the one i got was, again, entirely surprising. a perfect ending i never would have wanted in a million years. im sick
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I'm from the U.S. and read this book for the third or so time in the wake of the Trump presidency. There's something I find comforting about the horror in this book because of its underlying familiarity; it hurts me more than any media ever has, but it also feels bizarrely comforting. It made me think some scenes were kind of hot and then spiral for at least a few minutes over why I would think that. Overall, I will probably read it again (and again, and again.)
truly such an onslaught of horror, fucked me up bad. so many things caught me totally off-guard & plunged me into levels of dread i didn't know existed!! crazy, sickening, piercing look at failures of solidarity & selfhood. the whole time i was waiting for a reckoning & the one i got was, again, entirely surprising. a perfect ending i never would have wanted in a million years. im sick