A review by lilcurious
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

1.5

My biggest problem with this book is that it was published just this month and it already feels old. Although the queer representation theme is important, I don't think I'm speaking only for myself when I say that being queer online made me exhaust the topic of bad tropes years ago already. We need action and to pressure studios, of course, but the conversation itself has very few new exciting things to be said and Tingle didn't really say any of them. The very explicit anxiety around technology feels a bit old too, even though it has an anticapitalist twist to it,

it just feels like Poltergeist with a different product

. And, again, the point is not that Chuck Tingle is wrong, it's just that it feels like he is out of the loop, not reading current preoccupations well and how people are expressing them. This would be a fun, revolutionary novel in the 90's or early 00's, but it was just published on July 2024, and I can't really understand why.

(Additionally, I didn't care for the writing, and the

sci-fi twist

left me underwhelmed, specially the resolution.)

(additionally additionally, chuck tingle has a millennial earnestness that feels so corny to me lol, but i'm sure other people would connect with it)