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i'll also tell you this for free right now: i am interested in this and i find zakia sewell's work rly engaging and thoughtful and interesting BUT all normal non-fiction is so obsessed with making a point that it never makes the point fast enough for me. i have adhd i need at least one monumental event per paragraph and everything moves so slow

i'll tell you this for free right now: this would be 100% more interesting if it was written as specular future fiction, rather than just whatever dry political analysis it is now. i do not actually care about constitutional processes, I WANT TO READ ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NIGEL FARAGE! the snippets of that that i'm getting are interesting and keeping me going but god it is a bit dry.

1: this book is about the internet/tiktok/slop
2: i cant believe dfw wrote this in 1996
3: president gentle is trump, no??? gifts of prophecy!!!
4: i want to watch infinite jest
5: this is the best book i've ever read

i am also like REALLY enjoying the canadian weirdness, the quebecois separatism, the eschaton world building. all the weird things that feel like (???? why is this here???) n then ur like (... OH. !)

i am halfway thru and i think dfw would have loved/had genuine revulsion for tiktok. but this is basically all about how he predicted the netflixification of all entertainment

RE READING! AND ITS JUST AS GOOD!!!!

im so sorry i'm jibbing this, nothing makes sense it is like reading thru soup

look ok yes i am halfway through and i probably will be hlfway thru until the end of tjme. this is the kind of book where i'll mention jt in some kind of critical conceptual conver-- very useful and rich and interesting. but it is just like reading something that is made of mud. it's like soooo heavy going. i cant read this on the tube!!!!!? are u CRAZY?!

have been stuck halfway through for so long, i've forgotten the characters. i can't be fucked to start over again, and it's all sooo slow. HURRY UP. GET TO THE HAUNTING.

my bf got me this for xmas (bc i asked for it!!!) i am still halfway thru and i will never finish it bc -- even tho i get it and i respect it, unfortunately this book is boring

i am losing my patience w this book because it is lowkey a bit smug. like bell hooks is RIGHT and she should SAY IT but do i have to trudge thru it? exhausting! i’m sorry. i feel bad for having this opinion!!! i wish i was the kind of person that could revel in the profundity of this book. but i actually just feel knackered. speed reading to get it over with which is SAD! IM SORRY!!!!

very chic of me to be underlining bits in a copy of this book that i have borrowed (knowingly and brazenly stolen) from a Main Squeeze. vERY CHIC!!! glamorous, even? i wouldn’t go that far. made me cry on the tube tho. bell hooks never misses!!!!!!

this book is so terribly boring. sorry kazuo. i wish it wasn’t! i hate it

i’ve actually been reading this since january but it feels like i’ve been reading it for years. it’s nice but FUCK ME it’s dragging. i’m enjoying it but ALSO FINDING IT REALLY TIRESOME COMPANY.