Frankenstein
I was supposed to read it in high school and didn't lol. Thought it was about time I actually go around to it.
It's freaking good. Like wow it's good. Lots and stuff to contemplate. Would have been completely lost on 14 y/o me so I don't regret not reading it back then
Just started the last third of the book so no spoilers please
I think most of the novels I read in middle and high school were like that because they didn't teach us anything about history, politics, or philosophy. So many great texts went right over our heads because the school system couldn't teach us well.
i didnt like that book when i read it as i think a sophomore in high school but its one id like to check out, my teacher that year was not at all encouraging appreciation of books. last two years i had an amazing teacher though and loved almost everything we read
I'm just about done with it and i'd say it's a pretty solid 9/10
Granted the themes it deals with are interesting to me so YMMV
I totally vibe with your sentiment that the teacher makes a big difference. Although I never clicked with reading in school having had a string of passionate teachers probably set me up to fall into it now that I'm older
The Sublime Object of Ideology :zizek-joy:
Honestly way more accesible than people make it out to be, if you've read Marx & Lukács and are just the tiniest bit familiar with Freud & Lacan he explains all the basics that he's building upon. Def requires attentive reading, and I've been making notes in the sidelines & underlining stuff. It helps. And I look hot doing it.
Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Key
Working my way through Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity with an offline book club. It's not super complicated, but she references so many other philosophers that it feels like it should have come with a syllabus.
Finished Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis. It's a must read; Amazing to see so much of today's right wing discourse rooted all the way back against the fight for suffrage and abolition.
I'm about halfway through Stone Butch Blues :leslie-shining: , but I had to take a break from it because I was crying all the time and my family was getting frustrated with me.
Took a break from reading theory stuff and found some slop. All six omnibus volumes for "The Boys" is on archive.org without having to check it out. Just finished the last one today.
Bit of a slog but mostly entertaining, content warning for anything and everything bad and upsetting if anybody tries to work through them.
Trying to figure out which parts of the Preacher series i missed and if they're available as well.
Slowly making my way through National Security Cinema during my commute to work.
Re-reading Stand on Zanzibar. Despite being obsessed with overpopulation (a product of its time), the book is both endearingly dated - there's like 10 very advanced mainframe computers in their world, rented to governments and large companies, that's it - and at the same time weirdly prescient in its description of the future on some stuff, like the impact of social media or the epidemic of mass shootings.
It's really good.
In memory of CPI and Black Hammer I've been reading On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth. So far it's a bunch of basic info about cults and the authors do a good deal of horseshoe theory, but I'm hoping it picks up when we get to the case studies.
The God who riots made it's way to my door and the first few pages have been fun :biblically-accurate-kitty:
