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Review of William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, in which the character Temple is abducted into sexual slavery by the character Popeye and raped with a corncob

u/CosmicRamen — 1 day ago
▲ 48 r/BadReads

Moby-Dick: Book about whaling has too much information about...whales...?

u/lighpergi — 1 day ago
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This review confuses me (Beloved by Toni Morrison)

Great book but one star? Maybe a mistake when clicking, but also it changed your perspective on slavery? As in you didn't think it was that bad?

Or is the review sarcastic and that's why it's a one star? I'm intrigued.

u/left_to_its_devices — 4 days ago
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"The Rose Codes: Book of Initiations" by Mariya Nurislamova:

Despite being an atheist-antitheist myself, I have a strong interest in New Age beliefs because I think they present an interesting glimpse into the way that people understand and make sense of themselves and the universe.

The funny thing is that I was agreeing with this reviewer for the first sentence, since I was also rather disappointed and annoyed that this book claims to be providing a new feminist, goddess-centered faith system to the reader only to shortly claim that its "goddess" is the creation of a male-pronouned "Architect" who created the universe. Seemed like a pretty egregious lapse in imagination and common sense to me. (The last few parts about the historical treatment of women and the need for women to forge their own paths isn't bad either.)

However, the subsequent spin into transphobic New Age babbling is absolutely sending me lol. I love how the reviewer sounds so much like an Evangelical preacher telling someone to repent to Christ to save their soul, yet from the complete opposite side of the spiritual political compass.

I don't know if describing men as "wormholes sucking the divine energy of the stars" was supposed to invoke the image of an Eldritch-Freudian penis-shaped Dune-esque space-worm-monster, but it did and I feel so blessed to now carry the knowledge of the funniest thing in the fucking universe with me. I hate the transphobia, but the transphobia is simply too crazy to truly get mad at.

u/Lady_Beatnik — 3 days ago
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Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon hates your pets

u/TheObliterature — 13 days ago
▲ 22 r/BadReads

The author Ivor Prickett is a news photographer, not a news writer, and this book is about Iraq reclaiming Mosul from the Islamic State, nothing to do with Azerbaijan. I think the person interviewed the wrong book; Prickett DID put together a book about Azerbaijan. But it's not this one.

u/CatPooedInMyShoe — 10 days ago
▲ 30 r/BadReads

Pogroms are apparently Israeli propaganda

I was flabbergasted when I came across this review for Odessa by Gabrielle Sher. The book is about a young girl who’s murdered in the 1905 Odessa pogroms & is turned into a golem. I’d devoured it pretty quickly (it’s excellent!), so I actually searched the ebook to check for any small mention of Israel/Palestine I might have missed. Nope. Not a single reference.

u/m1r1m — 12 days ago