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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.

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Re: Books - mad honey (Jodi Picoult, Monsieur Boylan) - review hilights

[(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.