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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote 2018-01-09 01:02 am (UTC)

Yeah, I have a complicated relationship with 'who gets to be a person' books. It usually goes like this:

Book: But does x get to be a person? Me: Yes. Moving on. Book: But do they? Me: ...We just did this. It's not hard. Book: But do they? Me: Okay, the fact you have to think this hard about it is pretty gross....

One of the things I actually liked about this book is that Murderbot seemed pretty uninterested in the question. Other people were, but Murderbot didn't really want to engage about that. I appreciated that.


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