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Dubi

dubikan@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years, 5 months ago

Canadian; love horror, sci-fi, historical fiction, urban magic, and science non-fiction

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Tim Miller: Why We Did It (2022, HarperCollins Publishers)

A typology of trump apologists and enablers

The typology this book offers, demonstrated through stories of those who were in the news and behind the scenes, is interesting and potentially useful in other contexts as well, but I kept waiting for the bit where Miller suggests how we avoid this in the future, or at least explains how come this didn't happen in the past, but it never comes, and the book ends rather abruptly.

So we're left to wonder for ourselves how the lessons learned can be applied.

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer (2016, Grove Press)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It …

A brilliant, difficult book

This book is absolutely amazing, though, I should say, it should come with every trigger warning imaginable. A book I somehow could neither put down nor read more than a few pages at a time.

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer (2015)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It …

Review of 'The Sympathizer' on 'Goodreads'

This book is absolutely amazing, though, I should say, it should come with every trigger warning imaginable. A book I somehow could neither put down nor read more than a few pages at a time.