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The Queer Book of Revelation by Siya Khumalo
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bookshelves: 2024, africa, gay-interest, sf-fantasy

I have no idea how to rate this because I am still unsure as to what the fuck I just read. It’s the book with the kind of audacity and sheer sense of bonkers that you just plunge forward into the reading experience, hoping to submerge … You don’t quite, with this one. I will definitely have to reread it and give it much more thought. The line near the end, ‘the time traveller had been sentenced to death’, reminds me of ‘Behold the Man’ by Michael Moorcock. With lots more AI. And saliva.
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Reading Progress

August 12, 2024 – Started Reading
August 12, 2024 – Shelved
August 12, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
August 12, 2024 –
page 33
12.89% "'We can't live like humans and expect to become machines.'"
August 12, 2024 –
page 33
12.89% "'We can't live like humans and expect to become machines.'"
August 12, 2024 –
page 56
21.88% "'Civilisation is ripe for a system upgrade.'"
August 13, 2024 –
page 92
35.94% "THE FUTURE ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE..."
August 14, 2024 –
page 110
42.97% ""But who's Scotty?" John was asking Zipporah. "What does 'beam me up' mean?""
August 15, 2024 –
page 140
54.69% "They left, crossing the Euphrates and the hills of Gilead, made infamous by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale."
August 18, 2024 –
page 149
58.2% "I am really struggling to get to grips with the deep weirdness of this book."
August 18, 2024 –
page 177
69.14% "'An intermittent delivery in services doesn't make people hate the governing party; it gets them addicted to the little breadcrumbs that occasionally fall from the table. This is everything trickle-down economics intended.'"
August 18, 2024 –
page 188
73.44% "'...Eve was Adam's transgender clone...'

Wtf? By this point, the sexy John / Joshua hookup teased at the outset has been transplanted by an X-Files infused with Erich von Daniken / Illuminati / (Black) Men in Black info-dump. Well-written polemic - but zero emotional investment. I could be reading a weird research paper that would interest Ryan Murphy for AHS."
August 25, 2024 –
page 229
89.45% "'Becoming God is the goal of all technological development, and I want to be on that God's side.'"
August 26, 2024 – Shelved as: 2024
August 26, 2024 – Shelved as: africa
August 26, 2024 – Shelved as: gay-interest
August 26, 2024 – Shelved as: sf-fantasy
August 26, 2024 – Finished Reading

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