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Sofie Flowers
is 99% done
Y’all I’m so disappointed! I really wanted to like this book. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it just didn’t happen. Although described as a fictional scenario, there are some generally dubious claims here. Nuclear war (of course) is not ideal, but it feels like the length of this book is arriving to the exact same point repeatedly. There seemed to be no message other than “nuclear war is bad.”
— May 30, 2024 07:11PM
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May 30, 2024 07:22PM
ACTUALLY IM NOT DONE YET. I appreciate what the author is trying to accomplish: a second-by-second account of what nuclear war today might look like and the horror of the situation. However, the author seems to lean into this horror in a weirdly superficial way. She uses dramatic pauses, drops these deep one-liners, etc. But it gets kind of ham-fisted the longer you read. Of course this is my personal preference, but the horrors of nuclear war don’t necessarily need dramatic pauses. It kind of speaks for itself, and this constant use of suspense almost cheapens it.
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We’re told repeatedly, “Wow, nuclear war is so terrifying. Man is one step away from complete annihilation,” and like yeah it’s for sure terrifying! I agree. But the author rarely shows us this terror. There was one part of the book I really enjoyed where she was speaking with a woman from Hiroshima who recounted crawling out from a destroyed building after the bomb had dropped. This kind of detail is something that I would have loved to see more of.
