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Hard agree here.
I was listening to a review for an awful YA series a lot of people read when I was in school and despite the premise literally being "humans as pets in bondage slavery" the reviewer refused to state facts: this was written for someone's fetish.
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I doubt there were any serious literary reviews of that. And the YouTuber I saw wasn't exactly gentle with it either (not sure if we're talking about the same person).
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I suppose I don't understand what you mean by "serious literary review", the person I was talking about was recapping the books and giving commentary
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Serious literary review would be professional critics, academics, publications like the New York Review of Books, etc. This sphere may have a problem with wokeness and identity grifting, but it's still deeper and more critical than random internet stuff. These guys would not normally touch throwaway YA slop, and I don't see why they'd need to.
Social media "content creators" either gushing about or dunking on books are not the same as literary reviews. It may be entertaining to watch, but online reviews exist for entertainment or background noise rather than critical analysis.
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Aaaah I see
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Seriouscritiquing primarily its literay value, not primarily reviewing its plot
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This is something many people don’t understand. They go all “bah, this book is boring, the plot is about nothing”, when actual literary criticism implies going beyond the plot and analyzing the prose and studying characters. A great writer can produce a masterpiece out of mundane affairs if the writing is good and the characters feel like real life human beings evoking empathy instead of one-dimensional archetypes.
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Oh then the value of the writing itself is just shit on the merit it's a YA novel written post hunger games
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A lot of YA authors now are women who frequented Tumblr in their teens.
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But never the actual acclaimed fanfic writer themselves.
Strange.
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High school English class is fricking absolutely the fricking most cringe invention of the fricking modern era
Although it did reach its peak when in response to a fricking book we were fricking reading 14 year old me joked "oh s*x slavery, the fricking best kind!" not knowing the fricking teacher was fricking right behind me at the fricking time lol
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She's right behind me, isn't she?
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At uni @_____ was forced too read doughnut economics
JEWISH LIVES MATTER
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Same lol
Fun read, kinda regarded but what're you gonna do
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LOL. We’ve all had moments like that man.
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You're a zoomer?
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30 year old single foids read ya so not necessarily
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Yup, mid zoomer. I'm 22
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Old hag, boomer zoomers get the rope
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Gladly
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I refuse to die until I've got a six pack
any day now I'll be shredded
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I'm sure
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Biofoid ?
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Uh yeah
I'm in biofoids for a reason
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reason:
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I'm not a
I'm just tall
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post height
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6'2
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Fellow
zoomers rise up! (Actually gets drunk at home like a boss)
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Fellow farmpilled zoomer woman. Never thought there would be two of us.
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What do you think of Red Rising? I proofed it to see if it was appropriate for a 13yo girl. Author steals anything not bolted to the ground, but it gave me the same feeling as reading sir arthur conan doyle as a kid.
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Girls shouldn't be reading, they should be doing household chores.
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Borpa
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Chudpa strikes against legacy models
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Literally the best sci-fi trilogy of the last 25 years at least. And depending on how good Light Bringer is tomorrow, I might even acknowledge the sequels. I like what the author did to turn the Hunger Games into something beyond just torture porn, and unlike the Hunger Games the author actually knew how to build a universe outside of the arena.
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Thoughts on The Quantumn Theif?
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Haven't read it yet.
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I've never read it, I'll have to look into it
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That might be heavier than I’d recommend to a 13 year old girl. I enjoyed it but also recognized that it was kinda cringe and badly done in more than a few ways
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It's 100% shonnen.
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Gor?
Even has their LARPers.
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Excuse me hwat
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You read that right friend.
In this universe it's legal to own girls who are genetically engineered to be pretty, doll like and max out at 5 feet tall.
These are called "pets" and they're sold into slavery via auctions.
I wrote bondage slavery because they chain the MC to furniture so she won't run away.
It's fricking weird, man.
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What is this series called?
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it's called the perfected series, it's written by Jarvik Birch
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Maledom pet fetish. Pure coombrain author.
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poorly written and good for a laugh
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