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Personally, I still think INCEL felt more "real" than The Feminist, just because The Incel is using real arguments you see on the internet, whereas The Feminist hides it under cutesy satire ("narrow shoulders"), and even though the ending isn't satisfying, it's both true and also within the very same incel discourse the book is dealing with (whereas The Feminist is, as the title would suggest, much less about actual incels and much more an intra-feminism argument). ARX-HAN's cowardice is in wrapping things up with a neat bow, but he did tie a neat bow.
What I thought was the weakest part of INCEL is that the protagonist is the least interesting part of the book. He's basically just there narrating what more interesting characters are doing. Felt pretty clear to me that ARX-HAN wanted to write a book about the guy's jacked misanthropic Korean friend and some of the other cast members, but hung it all on the protagonist because that gave it a consistent voice/theme/etc.
Even if you’re cribbing notes off the Internet forums that incels use, you still need to craft a character that is more than just a collection of ripped quotes.
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