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This is a YA coming of age SciFi creature feature about 2 guys, one Gay and one Bi and a girlfriend who save mankind from extinction in Iowa.
The narrator is a charming developed character who tells his story with a lot of humor. It feels he's reading from a journal he kept during the events of the story. This results in a lot of repetition of events, words and phrases which is fun at the beginning of the novel, but becomes annoying eventually. For me this is the book's main fault. ...more
The narrator is a charming developed character who tells his story with a lot of humor. It feels he's reading from a journal he kept during the events of the story. This results in a lot of repetition of events, words and phrases which is fun at the beginning of the novel, but becomes annoying eventually. For me this is the book's main fault. ...more
I like the combination of queer and sci-fi genres because you don't these two mixed together that often. The love triangle/relationship in this book (bisexual teenager in love with his best friend *and* his girlfriend) *could* be interesting if it had actually been progressed and developed. Instead it remains disappoiningly static with running themes of awesome/sulky girlfriend and supportive/deeply in love and under appreciated best friend. And the writing is so repetitive. I think the author w
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“I read somewhere that human beings are genetically predisposed to record history. We believe it will prevent us from doing stupid things in the future. But even though we dutifully archived elaborate records of everything we’ve ever done, we also keep managing to keep on doing dumber and dumber shit. This is my history. There are things in here: babies with two heads, insects as big as refrigerators, God, the devil, limbless warriors, rocket ships, sex, diving bells, theft, wars, monsters, inte
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This is by far one of the weirder books I have ever read. It's sort of an end of the world by way of giant praying mantis/sexuality exploration/attempting to figure out how the world works/doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff novel.
I was not at all bothered by the constant discussion of balls, sperm, 'my confusing sexuality,' the fact that EVERYTHING made Austin horny, shit, cigarettes, lemur masks, plagues, etc... I was very bothered by the repetition. All of those words above are uttered a ...more
I was not at all bothered by the constant discussion of balls, sperm, 'my confusing sexuality,' the fact that EVERYTHING made Austin horny, shit, cigarettes, lemur masks, plagues, etc... I was very bothered by the repetition. All of those words above are uttered a ...more
!?!?!?! This book is wild and crazy~ quite a ride like nothing else I've ever read. Very fun and very innovative, it occasionally suffers from the repetition that is a key part of the style, but even that won't be much of a deterrent. A bit sexy, a bit scary, completely unique.
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This book really peppers my pastries. Andrew Smith is incredibly lucky that the humor and sensibility of this book resonated with me so much because if it had been even a millimeter off target I would have flat-out hated it. I can totally see why other people did.
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