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men are so boring

I maintain this is a book motivated by academic resentment (especially towards feminist critiques) and arguably a desire to go cave diving but “Milton’s abyss pre-god or a Nietzchean universe post-god” does kind of go off.

you can (psycho)analyse misogyny all you want it still isn’t interesting to me

horny grad student unable to decide on a topic for his thesis and decided to make it everyone’s problem for 600 pages

all of those references and we’re not gonna throw in baudrillard or sontag? ok

why

surprise gnosticism

Johnny needs to shut up already

So does the Backrooms movie also have a ham fisted copypasta explanation shoved into the middle of it or

Hell being an infinite library: fine, expected
Hell being filled with bored academics: terrifying

Copaganda? In my dark academia speculative fiction novel?

I do not care for the plot being explained to me.

Steven Moffat jump scare. Free me.

is any teacher at this school normal

So is this intentionally about grooming or

annual reread incoming

me @ me read your damn dracula daily emails

Poseidon can you calm the fuck down already

So you’re telling me this wasn’t a deliberately intended friends to lovers romance between Sam and Frodo where Sam has secretly been pining for Frodo for years

“it’s a short book” NOT SHORT ENOUGH! FINISH ALREADY!

absolutely fuck off with this rat hitler shit

Give me back my Haymitch coded rat

When I say this goddamn 11 year old is a better Haymitch than whoever the hell was in SotR I mean it

Not to be annoying but the book is better

“part 3” this 500 page novel could have been an email

This is genuinely physically painful for me to read and it’s still technically better than Sunrise on the Reaping

“nick is gay” nick isn’t anything other than spineless

unfortunately i am struggling to care

Haven’t finished this chapter but feels flawed to say “Sinhalese people were brought together by this”, argue it wasn’t the same in Germany/US, then bring up Charlottesville like that wasn’t almost entirely white men? Also don’t get why he randomly insults people eg “a pipe cleaner in glasses and v-necks”

Weakest chapter so far. It broadly makes an interesting point, but I’m wary of any psychology/anthropology talking about “alpha males” and at its worst the framing of this topic borders on “when they go low we go high”. Yes this is about social media but I think some “real world” consequences are also ignored ie post-backlash gofundme’s.

Reading this feels quite similar to reading my twitter feed c. 2016-2022 and that’s not entirely a compliment

Unsurprisingly, this is a good book to read on a rainy night

very likely that i probably should have consulted the king lear wikipedia page before this point