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Briar Ripley Page
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| It is rare that I encounter a novel like MAEJ: a doorstopper I found difficult to put down and finished inside a week; a work of very unapologetic genre fiction that’s equally unapologetic in its intelligence and dedication to doing strange, creative ...more | |
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| Reading Cavar’s Failure to Comply, I couldn’t help but think of the recent David Cronenberg movie Crimes of the Future. Both deal with dystopias in which bodies and their modification are strictly regulated, and people with unauthorized bodies form a ...more | |
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Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism: And Other Stories:
"I got an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
The first half of this collection is comprised of near-future SF stories, told in a crisp prose, lyrical but unsentimental. They're very timely, filled as they are with online novels, lives" Read more of this review » |
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| Ah, young love! Have you ever been nineteen, shallow, insecure in your art and inexperienced in the world, and making poor sexual decisions? Haven't we all. This is a book about that. I find the relatively small scale of the proceedings, and the emot ...more | |
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| Like MANHUNT, this is a blisteringly angry book: a constantly burning blow torch pointed at homophobia, transphobia, and, especially, the pervasive scourge of hidden, ignored, and socially approved child abuse. But also like MANHUNT— perhaps even mor ...more | |
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| Exactly the novel you'd expect "the Mountain Goats guy" to write, in all the best possible ways. It's a story that elevates the inner lives of neurodivergent outsider teens to the mythic heights they deserve. It's a story that brutally critiques the ...more | |
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| Psychedelic punk rock punch in the gut, succinct and overflowing with acerbic, grimy, violent, slur-slinging, absurd, pathetic, sympathetic, well-drawn characters. Deals with gender and sexuality in a way that feels simultaneously very modern and lik ...more | |
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