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Does this book ever pick up? I’m about a quarter of the way in and so far ‘The Adventures of Mary Sue As She Looks For A Date’ is just not doing anything for me. I remember tears ago hearing of it and thought it’s political world building, but so far it seems to be nothing more than ‘theater kids rule the world but- no touching.’ It seems like it wants to dive into the politics, but then again very other page it derails itself itself with ‘those damn eyes.’

Idk, I guess I’ve probably already made up my mind, but would be interested to know if it ever gets out of its own way.

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Right on, thanks for the input. That’s vaguely what I remember hearing about it years ago, which had me intrigued. Personally, I just don’t think I like the writing so far. But it seems to read fast so I guess I’ll probably keep going for now. Plenty of books I’ve felt this way about before at this point and been wrong, so we’ll see.