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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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From: (Anonymous)

I'm only just beginning to process what I've been reading, the sheer absurdity of it. I looked up amazon reviews and these have just been making me shake with laughter:

This was an interesting concept but was too full of information about bees which took from the story in my opinion. I’m not anti bee but don’t want long tracts of information on them in a book of fiction
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It’s doesn’t grip the readers attention very well. This book is basically about 2 things: bees and transgenderism.
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"Mad Honey” by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is a feast for the mind!

From: (Anonymous)

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/600262.html?thread=3678988230#cmt3678988230

All the delights that await the fearless reader within this book, yet *that* is what we can expect from ffa.

From: (Anonymous)

I miss the old FFA. It would have mocked the crap out of the new FFA for the most part.

From: (Anonymous)

I know, right? Where IS everyone?

From: (Anonymous)

Reminisce fondly about the old days for me, nona. I didn't even know about FFA back then.

From: (Anonymous)

Something I found interesting about some reviews I saw, which really wasn't on my radar: a lot of readers found the book too heavy. For me, it definitely wasn't, because it was too ridiculous and I couldn't take any of it seriously. I had wondered, if you were the intended reader of this book, ie: someone who could actually believe in it, who didn't notice, much less care about, prose... would it work even then? The rushed ending, the pages of lectures... And I had considered how I would react to it, pre-peak, and concluded that I would still find it stupid overall.

But what I hadn't considered was that many people would feel depressed by the "ambient sound" of this book-- abuse, suicide and whatnot. For me, the depiction is just too silly, and my brain lives in that key anyway. For them, it's a sudden onslaught of misery. It hadn't occured to me that you could find this a heavy book, because it's such a BAD book.