Rec | CHAIN GANG ALL STARS

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an excellent novel — it explores the violence and exploitation and treachery within the carceral system, the slippery slope of complacency, queer love, prison abolition, and more. those descriptors may not be very alluring but the right people will still pick it up.

@idfkvictoria

Apr 26, 2024

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chain gang all stars

I started this book 3 days ago and I'm not even halfway in but it's SO good. TW obviously for violence (of literally every kind) but this book is singlehandedly making me excited about reading again

@clara

Feb 5, 2024

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so damn good. currently reading the lady in the lake and man it rips. I love the sense of humor, the descriptions , the storytellin. read some of James Cain earlier this year. even though these works are almost a century old the themes feel v relevant & human.

@maxxxoch1st

Apr 11, 2024

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for people who don't read but want to get into reading

I recommend the book Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco. It's about a girl who gets raped in Medellín, Colombia in the 90's. As payback she cuts the balls of her rapist with scissors and grows up to be a hitwoman and a prostitute. It's a critique to Colombian society in the 90's due to the absurd amounts of violence. The book has everything. Action, a love triangle, a woman doomed by her circumstances. It reads like a movie, really.