MsA

I love this version of Wonder woman. I love feeling how powerful and awe inspiring she is! in a world of BS, she this LIGHT and it felt genuine not like after school stay in school kinda good YA know?

Being a lady-nerd reading this was +1 soul healing.

MAN YO if yall thought VOL 1 bought the heat

LET ME SHOW YOU SUMTHIN

TLDR: I loved the book! main protagonist is interesting to follow, story really good! I like the dance of reality and fiction. GOOD TIMES

Notable Moments:

I once had a substitute teacher in third grade who gave us the following art assignment: We were to scribble randomly all over a blank page with a black crayon. When we finished that, we were to color the page in, filling gaps and spaces between the arbitrary lines with whatever color we wanted. We weren’t supposed to be actively drawing or creating anything. She wanted an abstract explosion of shapes and color. The teacher claimed that when we finished, she would be able to see a secret picture emerge from the patternless mess we’d made, and she would be able to get us to see it too. I accepted her assignment as an ultimate challenge, and I scribbled and scratched and colored and made something I thought was as indecipherable as static. When I presented my page, she squinted and looked and looked and I thought I had won, but she said, “Ah, there,” as though disgusted with herself for not seeing the obvious sooner. “A bird sticking its head through a cocoon-shaped nest.” I blinked, unable or unwilling to initially see the image, but then I saw it too. The multicolored bits of shapes, like the digital blobs of an old tube television when your face was inches from the screen, formed a bird with a wide pumpkin-shaped head peeking out from its cavelike nest. It looked too big for its nest and angry at having been discovered or disturbed. I was angry too. I couldn’t articulate this at the time, but the teacher demonstrated that I wouldn’t always be able to see, to really see, what I was looking at.

The memory of that monstrous bird image struck the first chord of fear. Standing alone in the dark classroom of a dead, condemned school, I didn’t want to see the secret within the supply room wall’s slashing pattern. I didn’t want to see that same bird; maybe this time its head would be larger, beak opened wider, and finally free from its nest. I aimed the flashlight beam back to the floor.

I love this description of that fear of the unknown, maybe even more of that, the fear of KNOWING and not wanting to know more. I love this section, really stuck with me and got me kinda on the protagonist side even more than I already was by this point in the story.

talked about how the teens do it because they can and because they’re inexplicably driven to do it and the viewers will be driven to ask why why why and not have a clear, easy answer. That’s what’s scary, that’s why I want to make this movie

I am viewers. BUT yeah good job calling me out. I give points if its earn. HE(the writer) earned it lol

Fifty years old with no career to speak of, I was adrift, and had been so since the last day on-set, if not before then.

this point I was worried the protagonist was gonna do a "imma get back at society" but they did not. Im a sucker for subverting expectations- even when those expectations are personal lived experiences. EASY brownie points from ME.

He’s pitiful. We’re afraid for him, for what might happen to him. But we want to see what the teens will do to him. We need to see it. Maybe we’ve been influenced by the established rules within the movie. Regardless, we agree his transgression should be addressed.

I did appreciate like a direct look in the camera moment of this kinda genre/medium. It extra interesting b/c its HAPPENING IRL too* and I'm the audience within the context of reading this book! seeing how far it would go, why it go that far and wanting to see it. This is a reason I really enjoyed "The fisherman" I live for that feeling but unlike the fisherman where I thought it was a chance it wasn't intentional. in Horror Movie: I think it was one of the main "goals" of the book! and it was successful

LOVE it. Gonna be in the re-read rotation

I enjoyed the commentary on participation in society and how alien it feels when you don't accept the program

its awful that so many people failed her

lol the story was bleak and the ending took a surprising turn that I actually like(don't ask me to explain it, i think about it and update)

Small real specific note: I appreciate they didn't try to have sex with her, as far as the book went i can see lesser writers going ALL the way with the shock...It felt purposeful (lol is that fuck up i think it okay b/c it works for the story? im just glad it didn't go far for no reason IMO)

I felt my time was respected reading this. I felt the frustration, the pain, and the desperation to survive no matter what and how that looks living in a world that doesn't care about who YOU are.

Would I read this again? Yes - if looking for grim telling/view on societal expectations and failures that I personally emphasize with.