YABookgate

[Dom Cruise]

I no want live anymore:
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Remember, in Brave New World there was a disregard for classic literature and even written history, the society even went as far as to brainwash people to have literal phobias of books.

 

[Furina]

Remember, in Brave New World there was a disregard for classic literature and even written history, the society even went as far as to brainwash people to have literal phobias of books.

If I recall correctly, it was only the lower levels of society that were conditioned to be afraid of books when they couldn't be deliberately brain damaged in utero. Your role in society was defined before you were born and you were conditioned or handicapped in specific ways to make you fit that role.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

 

[gata]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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It was almost a "decent" YA summary until the ORANGE MAN BAD DEPORT AYYLIEN shit.
these types can't be subtle can they? What's the next idea for this genius author? "Leed'r Ali Hid'leer"? Ultwhite hate groups? Gromygeit rebels?

 

[Cool kitties club]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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At first I thought it was just gonna be the swiss family robinson in space then I realzied it was just prog jack off fantasy. Do teens even read books like this or is it just jack off material for woke progressives?

 

[SnarkySperg]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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Please tell me this is satire. Please.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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>Chinese name (an alias?)
>Wrote about a white family leaving Earth
>Orange-skinned commander-in-chief

This reads like a cruel joke.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Please tell me this is satire. Please.

You can read the first few chapters here and judge for yourself, but I don't think it is:

The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream Book 1) - Kindle edition by Leung, Chun-Tien. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream Book 1) - Kindle edition by Leung, Chun-Tien. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream Book 1).

www.amazon.com

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Please tell me this is satire. Please.

Maybe it’s so woke that it unintentionally becomes a work of satire. It can be a new genre: naive satire.

 

[HumanHive]

Maybe it’s so woke that it unintentionally becomes a work of satire. It can be a new genre: naive satire.

I understood that reference.

 

[SamTheEagle]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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"Arap-Musoogums" sounds like a slur. Not a good look, Chun-tien. And is that boob plate on the cover? Oof, yikes.

 

[Coelacanth]

I pray for death, but death never comes.

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I took a quick look at it and the first chapter was kinda boring. There's quite a bit of telling and not showing too, mostly saying "Earth has gone to shit and there are waiting lines for clean showers and its terrible, blah, blah blah..." which doesn't give the text any flavour at all. I may take a more in depth peek tomorrow, but I'm doubtful about that.

 

[augment]

So what's the name of that problematic book? Blood Heir?
Asking so I can buy 100 copies.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

Given an unreliable narrator, this premise could actually be spun into an interesting story.

The Smiths are manufactured organisms being used as biological weapons, though they don't know it. Their memories are false, and both their origin and their destination are not what they believe at the beginning of the book. The writer could (and should) drop clues along the way. The main character, having lost those dear to her, could seek out her creators in revenge. Hints of Corona-Chan and the Terminator.

EDIT: Spelling

 

[QuokkaCaptain]

Coming in April, from everyone's favorite gender-fucked author of George, comes ANOTHER story of a middle school-aged child's sexuality being examined in what I'm sure is a 100% appropriate and not at all creepy way:

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From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend.

Rick's never questioned much. He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. And he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out.

But now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. One of them leads to the school's Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, including Melissa, the girl who sits in front of Rick in class and seems to have her life together. Rick wants his own life to be that ... understood. Even if it means breaking some old friendships and making some new ones.

As they did in their groundbreaking novel George, in Rick, award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world ... and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be.

But now Rick's gotten to middle school

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I get that for some districts in the U.S., Middle School starts at 7th grade (12/13 years old), but for most nowadays I'd argue that Middle School starts at 5th (10/11 years old). My suspicion is that much like George (which, iirc, actually took place in elementary school and he was supposed to be about 8/9 years old) this is going to be focusing on the gender/sexuality of a child between the ages of nine and eleven years old.

And if you've heard of George- or at least, if you've heard the criticisms of it (some of the one-star reviews on Goodreads go into it)- then you might know that some people were creeped out by the fact that the author describes nine year old boys constantly looking up the girls skirts, discussions of porn, and a weird and gross fixation on underwear that sends up so many red flags it's a wonder Alex Gino hasn't been visited by the party van yet.

Alex Gino, in general, is a godawful author who, aside from being a creepy gender-fucked weirdo that needs to stop fixating on children's sexuality (golly, who does that remind me of?), is a preachy SJW that can't write to save his life.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Coming in April, from everyone's favorite gender-fucked author of George, comes ANOTHER story of a middle school-aged child's sexuality being examined in what I'm sure is a 100% appropriate and not at all creepy way:

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I get that for some districts in the U.S., Middle School starts at 7th grade (12/13 years old), but for most nowadays I'd argue that Middle School starts at 5th (10/11 years old). My suspicion is that much like George (which, iirc, actually took place in elementary school and he was supposed to be about 8/9 years old) this is going to be focusing on the gender/sexuality of a child between the ages of nine and eleven years old.

And if you've heard of George- or at least, if you've heard the criticisms of it (some of the one-star reviews on Goodreads go into it)- then you might know that some people were creeped out by the fact that the author describes nine year old boys constantly looking up the girls skirts, discussions of porn, and a weird and gross fixation on underwear that sends up so many red flags it's a wonder Alex Gino hasn't been visited by the party van yet.

Alex Gino, in general, is a godawful author who, aside from being a creepy gender-fucked weirdo that needs to stop fixating on children's sexuality (golly, who does that remind me of?), is a preachy SJW that can't write to save his life.

Ah, yes. This person.

Some of the best quotes from the "George" book, courtesy of a Tumblr post I found a while ago.

Kelly does a few cartwheels and “half the time her skirt would flip right over her belly, leaving her pink underwear showing.” Meanwhile, “Melissa was looking at her reflection from every angle she could.”

They’re almost ready but Melissa is still wearing boy’s underwear. “No one would be able to see them, but she would know all day that they were there.” Kelly gives Melissa a pair of her own underwear to keep, “light pink, covered in tiny red hearts.”

“She immersed her body in the warm water and tried not to think about what was between her legs, but there it was, bobbing in front of her. "

And he also chimped out when some kid did a letter to the author assignment for him, so decided to put the literal child on blast for making him do "labor" somehow.

I posted about his second book in the Deaf Community thread a while back. Crossposting that here now.

The books are genuinely awful. All tell, no show. The author writes like they've never spoken to a child before in their life. And the one about the Deaf community is literally made up nearly entirely of forum/text message posts written like this:

Spoiler: Actual excerpt from a book published by Scholastic

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Over and over again for the whole book. This isn't good writing. It barely even counts as writing. It's disheartening to know that something so utterly devoid of any substance or value could be published by a major company purely because it ticks some hot-button political issues of this era.

(There were several chapters focusing on how a character was super racist for asking another character for their recipe for sweet potato pie.)

The Sweet Potato thing:
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"As sharp as a point itself."
lol writing is hard.
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I don't know if she has enough online activity to sustain a lolcow thread, but I'm considering a thread for the books in a different subforum.

 

[Mola Ram]

Low-grade creepiness right in Alex Gino's Goodreads bio:

the hole in children’s literature was clear, and they knew how they wanted to fill it.

Yeah, I just bet "they" did.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Alright, I've looked through the Goodreads for Gino's Rick book, and apparently it's about a ten/eleven year old kid realizing they're asexual. I'm not one of the people who thinks asexuality doesn't exist at all, but a kid in that age range that isn't attracted to anyone could just, y'know, not have developed those feelings yet. This should be set in high school with teenagers, not with eleven year olds.

 

[Mola Ram]

Alright, I've looked through the Goodreads for Gino's Rick book, and apparently it's about a ten/eleven year old kid realizing they're asexual. I'm not one of the people who thinks asexuality doesn't exist at all, but a kid in that age range that isn't attracted to anyone could just, y'know, not have developed those feelings yet. This should be set in high school with teenagers, not with eleven year olds.

Asexuality is the default for prepubescent, un-abused children.

Asexuality in sexually mature adults isn't an orientation. It's a symptom.

 

[AnOminous]

Coming in April, from everyone's favorite gender-fucked author of George, comes ANOTHER story of a middle school-aged child's sexuality being examined in what I'm sure is a 100% appropriate and not at all creepy way:

But now Rick's gotten to middle school

gotten to

Fucking burn and die. Pure Islamic content.