I'm in a quiet coffee shop and laughed out loud at this. Doing a Vice undercover interview about books, complete with the mosaic tiling and distorted voices to conceal identities.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words..... they frighten me.".

I couldn’t finish the second Earthseed book, the bleakness was killing me.

If you liked those two then I highly recommend the Broken Earth trilogy and Oryx and Crake.

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Because the GOP can't use abortion to rile up their constituents anymore, they need a new "Save the Children" crisis to wave around.

I think that the American public school system is definitely a mess than needs serious overhaul, but I don't think that banning books/lessons/curriculum/teaching staff that represent anything other than "straight white Christian" is a step in the direction to making schools safer, more inclusive, and a better learning environment for all children.

Basically how I look at it too. I think the only books I've rated 1 star were books I was forced to read for schoolwork and hated. There are some others I dislike so much I couldn't finish them but I feel like I shouldn't give a rating for a book when I haven't read the whole thing

Do you agree with public schools period?

They are in them of themselves immersion of anglo culture and always have been. And that would be who you are aligning with all along if you do believe in it.

⭐️ : what the hell did I read ? ⭐️⭐️ : did not like. Could’ve been better ⭐️⭐️⭐️ : it was ok ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I liked it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I loved it , give me more

I am going to further give you my stats and I will respond I am taking in your comments in the spirit in which you spit them. I just have to run my brains processes to do so.

I was born in San Jose California 1976. I am product of a divorced home raised in a single parent household. I lived in the hood. I am only the second generation of missioned Indians at Santa Inez living “freed.”

The men in my family have served in this military both by drafts and enlisted. American Spanish revolution war drafted, wwii drafted.

These are my stats I will share thus far.

i use storygraph which allows .25, .5, and .75 as well, but for simplicity i'll stick mostly with whole numbers:

5 - one of my favorites of all time. the last time i read something that reached this was fall 2021

4 - very good book, either is just incredibly well written or would recommend to anyone

3 - good book, happy to recommend to some

2.5 - total middle of the road, as would be implied by it's position in the middle of the scale. books here are okay. i liked or appreciated everything above this and did not like anything below

2 - bad book that maybe had some good elements, could have been good if executed better

1 - really bad (this would be where dnfs go)

< 1 - dogshit, i could talk about how much i hate it for hours. i finish these out of morbid curiosity (coincidentally, the last time i read one down here was also fall 2021, a week or so after reading the 5 star one lol)

5: perfect

4: almost perfect

3: pretty good, but has some flaws that really dragged it down.

2: mostly bad, but there's like 1 or 2 good things in here being drowned by the bad stuff

1: these books are either all-around just an insult to literature, or there are a couple flaws in them that are so awful the book isn't worth reading for any reason.

>First of all. You are speaking with first people indigenous roots to the lands of the earth you may be standing on today.

I understand that.

And the people who are trying to ban books about LBGT+ people are also banning books about indigenous culture.

Because they think your culture is deviant, and lesser than white culture.

Again, these are the groups you're aligning yourself with.

“Books has even been around longer than the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem, ‘Pump Up The Jam.’ “

Why not both?

It’s always been their tactic.

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The innocence of children is sacred....and yet they're threatening to bomb their schools and potentially kill them and their classmates. They don't think that would destroy their innocence?!

Also, I was a child. I went to school. I can assure you, most children are not innocent. Most of them are cruel, sadistic little assholes. That's what bullies are. I don't know where this idea of children being innocent came from. (Hell, I'm sure these would be terrorists were once awful children themselves. Cause a lot of bad kids become bad adults).

5--love this, would pre-order the author's next one, possibly in hardover

4--really good, highly recommended

3--Okay--reasonably well-crafted, but there were things I disliked

2--Not for me, but may have redeeming qualities

1--Probably didn't finish and I don't think anyone should bother.

As long as they're white and Christian, the media will just refer to them as "troubled".

No. Not unless they're family and even then I have strict rules on how to take care of my books (e.g. not bending the spine).

I rate them the same way as everyone else: every book gets a 4 unless I really liked it (5), or really hated it (3).

I don't think I've actually ever rated anything below 3 stars because I'm good at picking books for myself or gave up on any that would be but here's mine:

1-Awful, mostly likely didn't finish but still feel the need to warn others. Truly nothing redeeming. Potentially hateful content etc.

2- Disliked the book, I don't recommend it but wasn't truly awful

3- An ok book that I wouldn't rush to recommend to anyone but still enjoyed it to some extent

4 - A great book that a loved but has a few flaws/points I didn't like. Didnt wow me from start to finish.

5 - Near perfect, almost life changing. Hard to find any negatives.

And then I have a further tier - favourites shelf which are books that changed my life/ I really want to highlight/ mean something to me.

Give it 10 years, and I bet PHM will be much less well regarded on this subreddit. You have to take time into account, Project Hail Mary is nearly at the peak of its popularity right now, while Hunger Games has obviously fallen quite a ways.

RPO is Ready Player One, which is another book that started off very popular and now mostly just gets hated on this subreddit.

I don't rate books and have never used Goodreads