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Touched
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DNF'ing this sucker at 35ish%
This is a typically non-SF genre author writing a story cloaked in its trappings. Guy wakes up and realizes he is the Cure to the virus that is Humanity. Ok - sounds good. Then he immediately gets arrested for being naked (and Black) and there's a whole lot of "Was I being arrested for my erection?" and an almost rape in prison and then a death by beating followed by returning to home where we get an erection scene and then there's multiple bitings and beatings and - I'm out before the next erection scene.
I also thought these two lines were so bad I had to put the book down for a bit: "We are innately a self-mutilating race," I said. "It starts out with tattoos and scarification, pacemakers and false limbs." What?
If this is Walter Mosley, then I say No Thank You.
This is a typically non-SF genre author writing a story cloaked in its trappings. Guy wakes up and realizes he is the Cure to the virus that is Humanity. Ok - sounds good. Then he immediately gets arrested for being naked (and Black) and there's a whole lot of "Was I being arrested for my erection?" and an almost rape in prison and then a death by beating followed by returning to home where we get an erection scene and then there's multiple bitings and beatings and - I'm out before the next erection scene.
I also thought these two lines were so bad I had to put the book down for a bit: "We are innately a self-mutilating race," I said. "It starts out with tattoos and scarification, pacemakers and false limbs." What?
If this is Walter Mosley, then I say No Thank You.
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Reading Progress
December 1, 2023
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Started Reading
December 1, 2023
– Shelved
December 3, 2023
– Shelved as:
science-fiction-fantasy
December 3, 2023
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Finished Reading
