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readbyabbi's review against another edition
3.0
read this for uni, hard to rate but i actually quite liked this even though it was essay-based! really really interesting and quite accessible despite it being written so long ago. think it will be very useful for the course and i enjoyed reading it!
cejcarroll's review against another edition
3.0
A bit chaotic and cloudy thesis-wise, but comforting ideas
mattrohn's review against another edition
3.0
This was fine and pretty outside the scope of the form of work I typically read. It moves very quickly over different areas of disease metaphor and wish it had spent longer in places to discuss more deeply how the metaphors actually function and why they take their existing form rather than another one
ohjoyce's review against another edition
4.0
This was brilliant and fascinating and all the good things which I had high expectations for (as Sontag is someone who I'd known to be praised to the high heavens by those including Maria Popova of brainpickings.org), and these were all met.
Toward the very end, her arguments do begin to become slightly repetitive but that might be attributed to the fact that I was very, very exhausted at the time I finished the book.
Toward the very end, her arguments do begin to become slightly repetitive but that might be attributed to the fact that I was very, very exhausted at the time I finished the book.
joshuasklar's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Very relevant to the zeitgeist or whatever anyway it's good
opaque_coucher's review against another edition
4.0
"To describe a phenomenon as a cancer is an incitement to violence. The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justified 'severe' measure-- as well as strongly reinforcing the widespread notion that the disease is necessarily fatal. The concept of disease is never innocent. But it could be argued that the cancer metaphors are in themselves implicitly genocidal. "
..."D.H. Lawrence called masturbation 'the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization.'":p
..."D.H. Lawrence called masturbation 'the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization.'":p
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