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A review by weelilbit
Anthem by Noah Hawley
Did not finish book.
If I wanted page after page of poorly written similes about why "cis-gender, nonbinary" (yes, hyphen in the wrong fecking word) are new appellations and using them improperly gets you shot down on the internet, I'd spend more time on Reddit and do a deep dive into 4Chan.
I'd really like to believe this book has more to offer than a hypersexual Black girl as the only POC in a mental illness retreat and two neo-Republicans raising kids in Brooklyn, but alas... 76 pages in and it's reading like a conservative's wet dream. No thanks.
I'd be very, very curious to see a BIPOC take on this book (or, at least the first 80 or so pages) but wouldn't dare ask any of my own friends to do so because this read as such a hateful piece of prose (and not even well written prose at that!) that I think I'll be waiting a while.
I agree with the other reviewer who said that it felt like someone who wanted to write a book full of slurs just to call it "satire". No.
I'd really like to believe this book has more to offer than a hypersexual Black girl as the only POC in a mental illness retreat and two neo-Republicans raising kids in Brooklyn, but alas... 76 pages in and it's reading like a conservative's wet dream. No thanks.
I'd be very, very curious to see a BIPOC take on this book (or, at least the first 80 or so pages) but wouldn't dare ask any of my own friends to do so because this read as such a hateful piece of prose (and not even well written prose at that!) that I think I'll be waiting a while.
I agree with the other reviewer who said that it felt like someone who wanted to write a book full of slurs just to call it "satire". No.