Frankenstein
I was supposed to read it in high school and didn’t lol. Thought it was about time I actually go around to it.
It’s freaking good. Like wow it’s good. Lots and stuff to contemplate. Would have been completely lost on 14 y/o me so I don’t regret not reading it back then
Just started the last third of the book so no spoilers please
i didnt like that book when i read it as i think a sophomore in high school but its one id like to check out, my teacher that year was not at all encouraging appreciation of books. last two years i had an amazing teacher though and loved almost everything we read
I’m just about done with it and i’d say it’s a pretty solid 9/10
Granted the themes it deals with are interesting to me so YMMV
I totally vibe with your sentiment that the teacher makes a big difference. Although I never clicked with reading in school having had a string of passionate teachers probably set me up to fall into it now that I’m older
The Sublime Object of Ideology :zizek-joy:
Honestly way more accesible than people make it out to be, if you’ve read Marx & Lukács and are just the tiniest bit familiar with Freud & Lacan he explains all the basics that he’s building upon. Def requires attentive reading, and I’ve been making notes in the sidelines & underlining stuff. It helps. And I look hot doing it.
Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Key
Working my way through Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity with an offline book club. It’s not super complicated, but she references so many other philosophers that it feels like it should have come with a syllabus.
Finished Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis. It’s a must read; Amazing to see so much of today’s right wing discourse rooted all the way back against the fight for suffrage and abolition.
