“It gave me time to think about my character deficiencies. I didn’t…”

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It gave me time to think about my character deficiencies. I didn’t think of them in those terms, but I did determine not to be any more stupid than was absolutely necessary, which is much the same thing.

Rite of Passage

by Alexei Panshin · published 1968 · read 2023-03-29

★★★★☆

A scifi book from the 60s, with a young black girl as protagonist, written by a white dude from the US, that isn’t terrible? And also isn’t praised and listed on all the reading lists everywhere? Reading this book was a big surprise, I have