reading crustacean rated Vernon Subutex: 5 stars

Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes
From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex--short-listed for …
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From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex--short-listed for …
Unfortunately I have read that some people think the author is Problematic because of cultural appropriation. idk it's not my place to judge but I'm sharing the sources
www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/24/the-elizabeth-warren-of-the-scifi-set-au.asp
www.themixedspace.com/sci-fi-writer-rebecca-roanhorses-scrutinized-identity/

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maybe I was expecting too much because I'd heard about it in adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown's podcast and thought this was going to be extremely mind-blowing. I kept expecting the story to go somewhere, to develop in some direction but it just kept being a bleak, lost earth and people trying to just survive on it. seemed to me like the plot just fizzled out.

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