I’m always a little bit scared that what I’m listening to will start blasting out of my phone speaker because I forgot to turn on my headset or something.

Same. I like Spielberg, but after reading the book I can’t imagine I’d like the movie!

There’s mind-blowingly bad stuff in the world building.

I hope you just coined “ritualistic sewer slide,” because that’s great.

Yeah, I was a third of the way through and realized it kinda sucked. I did stick it out to the end though.

One of the plot points has the main character literally act out scenes from classic movies. It’s never a good idea to remind the reader that there’s better entertainment that they could be enjoying right now.