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File this under Everyone loved it but me and Unpopular opinion.
I really didn't like this book. I've wanted to read this for years, I heard how ground-breaking/awesome this book was.
I didn't find it that good at all. The writing was juvenile (he was no George Orwell), and the characters were racist and sexist.
I can see why people like this book and the message of treating the mentally ill better. I get that and I think the mentally ill have been treated terribly through-out history. ...more
File this under Everyone loved it but me and Unpopular opinion.
I really didn't like this book. I've wanted to read this for years, I heard how ground-breaking/awesome this book was.
I didn't find it that good at all. The writing was juvenile (he was no George Orwell), and the characters were racist and sexist.
I can see why people like this book and the message of treating the mentally ill better. I get that and I think the mentally ill have been treated terribly through-out history. ...more
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