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I will be writing a whole post on near-future global crisis books and how the genre is just rough and everyone should stop trying to write it and promote some nonfiction instead (once I actually finish this damn book) but I will say, shout out to the one chapter with the kayaker in SGV. LA does suck and we should rip it out and try all over again, so true.
#i don't understand why the fuck they describe sierra madre as 'between Pasadena and Azusa ' tho#like. no one fucking knows where those are in relation to the mountains anyway#ALSO i do take offense to calling the San Gabriel mountains ugly! they are NOT#I'm a bit biased cuz they were the literal only snow i saw as a child BUT I'm still right#the thing with having grown up around socal is like yes LA as a whole is brown and butt ugly#BUT the mountains are pretty and don't insult them they're all we have#ESPECIALLY in LA. the beaches are trashed and packed and impossible to reach#but the mountains can be seen from anywhere and they are my guiding stars#ALSO there is a big telescope up there! and i love it.#i should go to bed now but ugh#megs is reading
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