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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
4.0

This is officially the first book I've ever read twice all the way through. I remembered loving it the first time, but it didn't quite grab me the second time. I love the story and the characters, but I think the telling of it was lacking a bit. The chapters of "notes for now," though completely necessary, drag so much that I found myself cringing every time I came upon one. What is it about writers from Portland that love to write about bad people doing bad things. Even the one redeeming character, Olympia, is good to a fault. She loves her family so much she would sacrifice anything, including herself, to see them through. Maybe Portland is really vanilla or perhaps it has one of the seediest underbelly's in all of America. Either way, keep writing these slimy novels and I'll continue to pick them up. I just can't help it.