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One of the hardest books I’ve tried to get through all year. 💀💀💀 ooooomg — not in complexity, but just in that it’s such a slog to get through

Just started section 2 of this sci-fi classic!🥳🥳

Nietzsche mention from Oceania.!! AHHH!😍😍🥰🌈

Things are progressiiiiiiiinggg👀👀😗 — as an aside, I’ve never known anyone to log their self-stimulation happenings within their personal diary entries but to each their own! Haha

The plot thickens!!🔥🔥🩷

WOW!! LOVING this so far!!😍🔥 Edith and Oceania are such icons! Glad to see that Oceania has at LEAST 1 ally in Boston from the beginning! The part where Oceania walked home at night through the snow with her heavy luggage, and the guy sees this and is just so impressed by her strength that he immediately falls in love is so troll haha — love the celebration of strong and independent women in that!

This is the first work by Upton Sinclair that I’ve tried reading, very curious to see how this goes! :) <3

Wittgenstein’s diary started off on a positive/hopeful note (as he felt very encouraged by his interactions with the kind army recruiters), and has quickly veered to be less so while he tries his best to keep a good head on his shoulders while being a negative work environment/very uncomfortable living conditions during his service in the Austrian Army (a position he volunteered for) on the eastern front in WW1.

I love how the author doesn’t make it 100% clear who the protagonist is going to end up with from the beginning. Very happy to see her finally be official with the object of her affection now (despite some miscommunication & maybe a slight lack of experience/maturity from the guy’s side) AND to have a HAPPY new queer couple being revealed in the narrative! LOVE the representation in this book all around!🥰

Chalet 1 - this great rivalry/conflict between Gilgamesh (two-thirds divine and one-third human, born to the mortal king Lugalbanda and the goddess Ninsun) & Enkidu (who is younger but created through mystical means as well) being settled by a quick Pseudo-wrestling match during which they break the architecture around them, and then just hug it out afterward and are friends from then on is quite droll to me.

Absolutely love this book so far. New favorite German author for sure!!😍🔥

Interesting information, but not sold on the delivery so far.

This is the first nonfiction novel I’ve read that was written in the 2010’s in idk how long (I usually stick with classic lit and philosophy), but I’m very much enjoying it so far🥰💕💕

LOVING this so far!!😍😍

So far, this is a more enjoyable read than the works of Goethe, Thomas Mann, Kafka, or any other German classic lit authors I’ve experienced. WOW.!! I’m so impressed! Definitely one for the philosophy lovers💕💕 I can see why Hesse was awarded the Nobel prize in literature.

How I wish I had read this YEARS ago.😭😭 So far this has to be one of the best feminist theory/philosophy primers I’ve ever picked up and I’m only on chapter 3!🩷

I just finished the first chapter and OOOOOOMG I am HOOKED.!! 😍😍🔥 a FAR more enjoyable read than Huck Finn lol wow

I love when classic lit references other works of classic lit within them. Voltaire just name dropped Cicero and Homer, with one character saying that some of the Odyssey was a masterpiece, but the rest, completely boring. The same character also said he didn’t like Cicero because Cicero questioned everything (he was a skeptic) and that if he was going to live in ignorance, he didn’t need Cicero’s help haha