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I love how he keeps praising him and calling him “my dear” kahwhcjdbhfhchdhjsshhdlcifbwenhxhchd

Can’t find the time to sit down and read books. However, I’ve been reading a lot of academic papers.

Good intro I guess, I just don't like the fact that the translator says that he certainly believes that some of the poems are inauthentic yet he still included them mmmmmmmm

need to get back into reading, been very distracted and busy

This book is, unironically, really stressing me out. It’s written in chronological order, and even though we all know what happened in Afghanistan, reading about it while knowing what’s to come pains me.

May Allah curse Amreeka.

mmmmmm making me think

I love how everyone she talks to in Afghanistan is fond of Mullah Omar, like she very much fails at presenting him in a bad light because of how clearly he cared for his people even though he failed in many areas.

this is liberal af lmao

I want to try and finish this book today inshallah.
The poetry section is very interesting.

meow meow meow

very well-written

v solid so far

This book is beyond excellent but I’ll stop reading it until I get a physical copy because I’m struggling to focus reading the pdf.

damn

v sad

My Irish professor recommended this to me because I showed him poetry by Palestinian prisoner Nasser Al-Shawish and he said it looks like it could be written by Bobby Sands.

Sartre admits in the preface that this book doesn’t need one, yet he wrote it anyway?? I don’t understand why he felt the need to insert himself into it. While I agree with many of his points, I didn’t need a white man to tell me that. It feels like it defeats the purpose of the book.

I understand now why Shakespeare is Shakespeare.

Deeply interesting and flow v well but the writer is an awful racist.

Feels too fast paced.

It’s very difficult to cram such complex ideas into such a tiny book.

This was the book for my Islamic philosophy course, I’m quite interested in the topic so I decided to read it after the course is done lol

Truly one of the most important works ever written.

I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS.

I genuinely don't understand the purpose of this book, like what's the theme? What's the message? It's experimental in an awful way, the writing doesn't serve a proper purpose. I don't see any brilliance in it, it's like O'Brien is writing for people to call him "smart", there's no depth or substance. I feel like people who enjoy this book are people who like looking like as if they're intellectual and smart.