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Here's my #12Booksof2024 pick for May, not because it's such a good book, but because in May the competition was so thin. We're getting into some months where life crowded out my usual reading volume. Still, if I have to post a flawed book, I'm pleased I can post an *interesting* flawed book, which I think this is.
Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 !
so-so(1976) This is a sequel to "Don't Bite the Sun," set in a city where all needs are met by machines, and youth spend their days in sex, drugs, and parties. In this one our narrator is exiled from the city for reviving dueling. But outside the city she thrives, and the city cannot tolerate her success.
Mixed feelings: The writing is engaging and the characters interesting, but the binary city = oppression, rural life = freedom feels false to me.
