Darth Brutus added 1 item to Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 list
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One of the greatest Japanese novels ever written.
This one's also something of an autobiographical work with central themes such as social isolation, depression and suicide.
Very easy to read, very short yet extremely powerful and subtle. No wonder so many people love this things.
3 years ago
Darth Brutus added 1 item to Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 list
18.1.
This might just be the most extreme novel Phil K. Dick ever wrote. It's an autobiographical story about paranoia, schizophrenia and the complete downfall of one man's sanity. Nothing in the book makes any sense, but it's so full of esoteric and random information it works.
3 years ago
Darth Brutus added 1 item to My Favourite Albums list
I think this is one of the most interesting albums Black Sabbath ever released. Eternal Idol doesn't have anything in common with the original Sabbath, but instead it's more atmospheric power metal type of more sophisticated music. I don't even think this was meant to be released as a Sabbath album, but it's still fascinating and very high quality metal.
3 years ago
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3 years ago
Darth Brutus posted a review of Rambo: The Force of Freedom
THE definite proof that God does exist!
“I know it's for kids, but good lord is it so much fun! Like, imagine the dumbest films Steven Seagal has ever made and put in John Rambo to do his usual stuff. Because it's for kids there's shitton of stupid humor and moral lessons and some of the most awful one-liners I have ever heard in my life. ” read more
3 years ago
Darth Brutus added 1 item to Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 list
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Some people will hate me for this, but I didn't really enjoy this novel, I don't think it's nearly as good as some folk make it out to be. I think Margaret Atwood is a great writer, but the content is very flat and empty.
You know the thrill: some fundamental christian cult has taken over America and all fertile women are being persecuted, they're kept as slaves and regularly raped and stuff.
My first issue is that the thing is so extreme it doesn't really represent even the smallest of minorities within the religion. Not even people in the middle ages were that extreme. It doesn't seem like Atwood understood the logic behind extremely conservative people at all.
My second issue is that it's so damn vague. Let's presume that this radical movement exists and could "somehow" take over America. Of course, I would gladly want to know what this "somehow" actually is, since it would be pretty much impossible in real life. The story is told in first person by a woman who doesn't know anything so at the end the reader is left completely empty-handed. It drove me nuts.
My third issue is that if only handful of women were fertile, they would most likely be treated like queens or goddesses, not slaves. The real life already has e-girls and other similar examples where thousands or millions of young men compete about the attention of a single woman and the succubus herself just runs away with their money. There's smaller "queen bee" cases outside social media, but my point is very clear. Many people find fertility hot and sexy, that's why men usually don't date women older than themselves.
3 years ago