#anyway fuck likeable characters i just finished giovanni's room and it fucked severely

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Honestly it's why a lot of booktube isn't for me either. A lot of criticisms in those spaces basically fall back on "this character/content is problematic, hence the book is bad and the author is normalising bad stuff" and just end it there with either no or superficial analysis on structure, style, tone, themes etc.

Like, forgive the conspiracy board but I genuinely think it goes hand in hand with the fast fashionisation of books, where the point is to consume and get your stats up by reading as quickly and as many books as possible, so content creators will speed through these books in like a couple of days and not even give themselves time to absorb what they were reading before they turn the camera on to give their review. Hence their critical analysis only stretches as far as the most prominent and surface level content, in which bad stuff happens in it, which is bad and makes the book bad, and I can't think too deeply on it right now because I've got to spend hours editing this tonight and start on another book/video tomorrow. And then thousands of readers will watch that and internalise that this is how we should be interacting with books and it's fucked up

kicking a hornets nest.