multimindz's reviews
45 reviews

Boring listen. I really tried to be engaged with the story but the only interesting bit was the pumpkin head chase. The rest prior was either long driven or eye-rolling. 

This was a great intro book for me when I was learning about Paganism and witchery as a young adult and thus recommend it over and over. It is absolutely wonderful and does not depict itself to be a "tome of darkness" like other books on Paganism and witchery try to be, it's just a bevy of ethical information to the curious and those who want to learn more. I heavily and always recommend this book!

I've read this series before when it first came out. I really liked it because was such so different (and still is) from the average comic:

This work is a classic for me, I really like this over the standard comic.

I usually like stories that I don't don't know which way it is coming or going but many times I went "wtf did I just read?". It was like an Alice in Wonderland that was way off the docks. I listened to an audio version of it (which is about 2 hours 40 min) and it still was a tough one for me. 

Amazing book with adorable story - FINALLY A HAPPY STORY ABOUT A TRANS PERSON BEING HAPPY - and interesting insight about being trans in Japan. 

Read it. You will like it.

Meh at best. Standard White suburban whinging, if you will. Leonard is a unreliable narrator who lives in a depressive world of being caught up in himself because of a trauma that struck him at the hands of a former friend and born into an unloving family. It felt like "Harris/Kebloid Day Out", esp with all the casual racism (no Black ppl in the work but two instances of the n-word, one Iranian kid who is just trying to survive the WASP-y world & school he's been plunked in) and casual sexism. I was hoping for Walt to die, and for the kid to off himself at least sooner so that the story could end faster. 

I suppose it's a good glimpse inside the head & life of the average mass shooter and how they're so caught up and stuck on themselves. It is a good (though overly White) perspective of how trauma can really disrupt a person, how depression can deeply warp your perspective, and how it takes a villiage to fail a child but it isn't one I would recommend. 

Herr Silvermann seemed ok, at least he tried to do his job, which does show a great example of how the actions of one person going on a limb and giving a care can mean the world to someone else, even if they're on the brink. And the ending isn't neat but shows the problems are still ongoing, which makes sense, real life doesn't always have a happy ending, esp if nothing changes where it counts. 

I have DID.

This is the book everyone thinks of when I mention my disorder or they discover it - and then fire/evict/threaten me?

I usually would say "People can be stupid" but this is far beyond the pale. It's sh*tty writing that confused me from start to finish. DID can change your demeanor (doesn't make you trample others, you're thinking of what people without DID do ... and then hunt for an excuse dumb people will believe), even your accent and vocal timbre - but you still have the same body and face. The more concerning people in this story are the ones without the DID, given how coldhearted they are the nanosecond someone shows any sign of mental malady. No compassion, all hate and "should have been born a better person".

Everyone, you're all aware this is a fictional story written by a guy who read the first known case of Dissociative Identity Disorder in the West (some guy in France in the 1800s was discovered to have it) in the newspaper and went "I have a crappy idea, let me share it with the world!" - and not a How-To guide on how to treat people with disorders, especially DID, right? 

If anyone in the work had a shred of compassion - or, better yet, took a minute to think outside their gravely myopic egos - it would have at least been minorly better written.

The book was dreck, long story very short. 

Amazing book with riveting storytelling. Would have been the exact book I would have wanted to read (and nearly shredded a copy of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys in front of White librarians when I was a teen who wanted Black books to read and they gave me that over). 

Brilliant and a perfect book for Black teens, especially boys, who want to read fantasy with a bit of sci-fi (or anything isekai style) with realistic characters and no race pain/Black trauma storylines (because those storylines are made for the White readers that can't get enough of Black suffering, not for Black folks who simply want something fun to read) and is penned by someone Black. The writer handles writing women characters well, also! Great book! Better than most I have read on fantasy, definitely won't put you to sleep like the classics. The chapters are filled with action and awesome