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I'm a Fan
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Just not terribly enjoyable, I'm afraid. I was open to something fresh and millennial with a keen eye for racist microaggressions and a wry take on 21st century relationships and our relationship to celebrity. Instead I got endless wingeing about how difficult it is to be alone in your 30s when you have missed every opportunity to grow up and sort your life out. It was all dreadfully self-indulgent and pathetic. Nobody could sympathize with a person like this. Nobody would want to be friends with a person like this. There was nothing relatable about an awful person who cheats on her boyfriend for a relationship with the King of RED FLAGS whose banner, a red flag, is carried high and proudly by his wife and the other mistresses with whom he has mind-blowing sex and texts you about. Is this really what is going on? Are people genuinely this stupid? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean I care to read about their stupid lives and their Insta stalking. This was not shocking, not transgressive and not in the slightest bit original or entertaining. It's wanky autofiction-lite that someone told the author was "brave".
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Reading Progress
January 8, 2023
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Started Reading
January 8, 2023
– Shelved
January 13, 2023
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Finished Reading
January 15, 2023
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literary-fiction
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Completely agree with this assessment.
i actually would like to read it more now
I disagree, unlikeable protagonists make some of the most interesting stories, and I think the character doesn’t need to grow in order for the author to be very clearly pointing out the flaws in the characters behavior. To me it was super clear that the author was not glamorizing any part of the story !
Julia wrote: "I disagree, unlikeable protagonists make some of the most interesting stories, and I think the character doesn’t need to grow in order for the author to be very clearly pointing out the flaws in th..."I'm on board with all of that. This was no American Psycho.
the main character is a loser and she knows that, the author know that, we know that. main characters aren’t always supposed to be likable or relatable or morally correct
I had my fair share of problematic relationships and self-destructive behaviours, so I could pretty much sympathize with this side of the story. However, after a while it became a repetition of the same things, without any kind of progress or growth or a spectacular downfall even... but nothing happened over 200 pages here... :(
You made sure I won't be reading that. Thank you for your service.
Hello how are you doing I hope you are fine
Agree with this review this was frustrating to read
However there was zero character growth and it really felt like the author sympathised with the character so much and didn’t see an issue with her attitude.