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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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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Without spoiling anything, it’s one of those books where you realize things by the end that make you reconsider your impression of everything that came before.

My understanding is that the novel is an expansion of an earlier short story—I haven’t read the short story, but I remember thinking after finishing the book that it might have worked better if it didn’t wade through so much setup before getting to the payoff. If you’re ready to give up, you might want to just read the story instead.

[–] 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.