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More like The WORST Bad Man, amiright! I’ll see myself out.

January 6, 2016 by expandingbookshelf 2 Comments

According to the Internet, I’m the odd person out when it comes to Miranda July’s The First Bad Man. I scanned reviews that called it “heartbreaking” “brilliant” and one of “the best books of the year.” I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me. Because I hated this book. HATED this book. For me at least, The First Bad Man is some twee hipster nonsense masquerading as something deep that like says stuff man, about our society. It’s too outrageous to be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: First Bad Man, Flames on the side of my face, miranda july

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: First Bad Man, Flames on the side of my face, miranda july ·
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