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Stigmaplay
by Andrew Verlaine
DID NOT FINISH: 43%
The premise of this book is really interesting, but that’s about as much positivity as I can muster for it.
There’s no real flow. The writing is a strange mix of screenplay-like dialogue and more detailed stories / inner monologues. This might have been intentional to help differentiate which storyline was the real world and which was VR, but it was overly-simplistic and disjointed.
The author mentioned in the preface that this is a satire, but satire necessitates that the story be clever, not just crude. The way racism, sexism, abuse, etc. was portrayed didn’t add anything to the story—It felt like a cop out to justify using unnecessary offensive terminology.
There’s no real flow. The writing is a strange mix of screenplay-like dialogue and more detailed stories / inner monologues. This might have been intentional to help differentiate which storyline was the real world and which was VR, but it was overly-simplistic and disjointed.
The author mentioned in the preface that this is a satire, but satire necessitates that the story be clever, not just crude. The way racism, sexism, abuse, etc. was portrayed didn’t add anything to the story—It felt like a cop out to justify using unnecessary offensive terminology.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings
Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Xenophobia, Dementia
Minor: Rape, War