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books-apples-socks · 1 year ago

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listening to "the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires" is such a mixed experience because on one hand you're treated to a wonderful narrator (bahni turpin) whose voice acting is beautiful and who makes wonderful character choices in pronunciation and mispronunciation and on the other hand.... the book itslelf is racist and sexist

#i'm truly surprised by the overall glowing reception it received now that i'm at the halfway point #i was excited to read this despite finding hendrix's other work fairly mediocre #it looked promising #but much like i found 'the final girl support group' flat from the start here too i began noticing problems almost right away #even if the prose fits my tastes much better #being accurate to the time (the 90s) shouldn't automatically translate into a reflection of the time #it's ambitious to work with an unlikable protagonist #more ambitious to make them sympathetic #sometimes hendrix is successful #but the inciting incident of the novel #(afluent and middle class women are bored with reading world renowned novels and quit their club after they fail to read about apartheid)#is endorsed and reinforced by every subsequent choice the characters make #i'll grant you only that the belittlement these women experienced at home is affecting #southern book club's guide to slaying vampires #grady hendrix #southern horror

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