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Author is coming to UChicago next week! This has been on my reading list for a while, so I'm excited for the oppturnity

Currently reading bc Leiter's book says to read it as a companion.

This is a book for lawyers, so DNF for now

Ive reading this book nonstop for a week and they JUST got to pearl harbor, this is insanity

"Of the 40,000-plus applicants, winnow out those who are unlikely to flourish at Harvard...Rather than engage in the exceedingly difficult and uncertain task of trying to predict who among them are the most surpassingly meritorious, choose the entering class by lottery. In other words, toss the folders of the qualified applicants down the stairs, pick up 2,000 of them, and leave it at that."

“Such a relationship is plausible for several reasons. First comes self-selection. Eighteen-year-olds do not end up at Duke or Yale by accident. They have to try hard to be there. In other words, most of them badly wanted as teenagers to be part of an elite institution, with all the implications that attraction to eliteness carries with it."

"What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself"

This is also for class, stop making fun of me

To the haters and losers; my professor next semester wrote this book, so I am reading it to get a head start and impress him.

First chapter down, very violent and over the top. Haven’t ever read an “action” book like this, let’s see how it goes

The goodreads cover is terrible

Corny, but in a nice way. The foreshadowing is so obvious, its very funny.

Just finished Purgatorio. It was good, lots of pretty and symbolic imagery, but nowhere near as interesting as Inferno. Inferno is just more dramatic, more terrifying, just a lot more interesting. Purgatorio is just a lot more boring, probably because there's a lot less conflict, and all the punishments are kinda lame.

Looking forward to Paradiso, although it's apparently boring.

Just finished the Inferno.

The writing is excellent, and I really enjoy the weird, fucked-up imagery and punishments of hell. Also, the class I'm taking has helped make sense of how detailed a lot of the symbolism is.

However, Dante spends so much time on his contemporaries from Italian history, which is boring. It's very not timeless, I would only be interested if I cared about 13th century Italian politics

So far; like the dialogue, the prose, it’s a very well-written book. Have many thoughts on the characters

I am having a blast but the main character is a demon