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[murderbot, no spoilers, vent] I just...
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if you're reading these books for the Nonstop Action Twisty Shocking Plots, then yes, you're going to be disappointed.
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if you're reading them for the Mindbending Secrets of Science, then yes, you're going to be disappointed.
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I don't know who pitched this series to their friends as anything other than the story of an incredibly smart, brave, weird, cranky person in a world where everything is stacked against it
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but the fact that they're not the books you want them to be doesn't make them not good books
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I've read bad books. I've read bad books that I really enjoyed.
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These are not that.
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and I wish people would stop branding them as "bad" and "overrated" and whatever the fuck else because they went in with expectations
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and I know this is oversensitive of me since they're generally well received and selling like hotcakes but murderbot is so important to me you guys
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and it hurts me when people brush aside its journey and its development as "boring" or "unrealistic"
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OF COURSE IT'S UNREALISTIC, IT IS A SUPERPOWERED CYBORG IN SPACE
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but emotionally it is one of the realest characters I have ever encountered
unoiled snake
sigh
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waves "it's okay to not like things" vid
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I know, it's just--
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we're seven books in! stop reading them if you don't like them!
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I mean, I'm sighing at them because they shouldn't be dicks about it xP
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sometimes a thing is just not for you and that's okay
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right, like there are books that I thought I'd like that I bounced off of!
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same!
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and it's not because there's anything WRONG with them, they just didn't do the specific things that make me happy
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yeah
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sometimes it just doesn't grab you
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there are also books I didn't like because they straight-up sucked, but that's a whole different feel
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and I didn't even start Murderbot for ages after I first heard of it because from the outside it sounded like it might be one of those!
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mutters into hoodie I just have a lot of feelings
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Spazztichero
There is a persistent fallacious logic that if something is popular, it must be bad. But also, some people just enjoy hating things publicly. By setting themselves opposite of a popular sentiment, they are somehow reaffirming their own uniqueness.
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Murderbot is clearly a character driven piece of literature.
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There is action, and a good amount of it! But it's a lot more about how Murderbot thinks about and reacts to what's going on around it than it is about the action itself.
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By its very nature of not being human, Murderbot is neuro-atypical, and that is really interesting to read.
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EXACTLY
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it's a feature not a bug!
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(System Collapse is SO GOOD, Nick, I am looking forward to having people to scream with)
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I need to read the new one!
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I'm in the middle of another book right now so it'll be a bit. But I'm looking forward to it.
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Internet comments that don't make me mad suggest that you may wanna reread Network Effect first, since it follows directly!
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yeah, that one makes sense