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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin
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UserStatus1059919038 Fri, 09 May 2025 10:59:32 -0700 <![CDATA[ Robin is 21% done with Julie Chan Is Dead ]]> Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang Robin Castle is 21% done with <a href="/book/show/220161576-julie-chan-is-dead">Julie Chan Is Dead</a>. ]]> Review7539782912 Thu, 08 May 2025 09:44:20 -0700 <![CDATA[Robin added 'The Big Sleep']]> /review/show/7539782912 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Robin gave 1 star to The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler
Arduous. Zero stars.

Paragraphs of description of every little thing.
Convoluted plot, if you can call it a plot.
Bizarre portrayals of women.
Assault of an unconscious person.
If you think the time period in which this book was written excuses it, read other books from the time period. ]]>
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Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
"This message is for Reese Witherspoon and Reese only. Everyone else can keep scrolling.

Reese- are you safe? What does this author have on you that would force you to recommend this book? Blink twice if you are being held hostage and forced to recommend sub par mild toned literature.

This book sucked- plain and simple. It was incredibly superficial and scratched a few larger themes without allowing the characters or readers to go there. If I survived a plane crash in the rural Canadian Rockies and this was the only thing I had to read for the next 20 years - I would sooner start a camp fire with these pages. Boring is an understatement. I’m concerned that so many people liked it. And to those people I only have one question, a tale as old as time- Have you tried reading anything else?"
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
"This book was so misogynistic it made me want to scream. Not only were the female characters heavily described based on their looks, but they were also overly-sexualized, incapable of carrying on a full conversation, and judged to be stupid, childish, or evil (and in one case, a combination of all three) by the lovely (MALE, of course) protagonist. I could not see the forest for the trees, if the forest was the plot and the trees were EVERYTHING ELSE. An all-around gross novel."
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