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A review by aront
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
1.0
Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a talented writer. However, to quote Thanos, her politics bore me. And since her politics permeate the book, the book is boring. I tried, I really did, I got half way through and since I am an obsessive and can’t not finish a book I started, I decided to skim the rest.
I was shocked and angered by how she ended the book. Sure, I found C so emotionally infantile and I couldn’t really care about her. But we what the author did to her was just cruel. Your characters are your children, how can you treat them so badly?
As an aside, I lived on Wall Street during Occupy. Landlords were desperate, and we got a great apartment for a steal. Occupy was an absolute joke. Maybe 150 people tops in the tent park. Some rallies had 20 people. Having witnessed tens of thousands at the 2011 protests in Spain, the arrogance and American exceptionalism that made this pathetic protest seem innovative or earth shattering, always annoyed me. The slogan about the 1% was to hide the fact that the protestors were part of the top 10-20% and had no clue what real poverty means. Neither does C and neither does the author, who tries to romanticize a political milieu which meant nothing and accomplished nothing.
I was shocked and angered by how she ended the book. Sure, I found C so emotionally infantile and I couldn’t really care about her. But we what the author did to her was just cruel. Your characters are your children, how can you treat them so badly?
As an aside, I lived on Wall Street during Occupy. Landlords were desperate, and we got a great apartment for a steal. Occupy was an absolute joke. Maybe 150 people tops in the tent park. Some rallies had 20 people. Having witnessed tens of thousands at the 2011 protests in Spain, the arrogance and American exceptionalism that made this pathetic protest seem innovative or earth shattering, always annoyed me. The slogan about the 1% was to hide the fact that the protestors were part of the top 10-20% and had no clue what real poverty means. Neither does C and neither does the author, who tries to romanticize a political milieu which meant nothing and accomplished nothing.