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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
Interesting and funny at times. Not an easy read. There were a lot of references to people and their work, which is a bit difficult to understand when it’s written in the 60’s.
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I loved it!
Anyone who is even remotely interested in modern culture should read these two essays. I don't think I have ever read any text this short which was this jam-packed with meaning: Sontag was extremely insightful.
Anyone who is even remotely interested in modern culture should read these two essays. I don't think I have ever read any text this short which was this jam-packed with meaning: Sontag was extremely insightful.
I picked up this short, small book after reading the last essay in It Came from the Closet, which used this book’s titular essay as its basis. While short, this is a dense read, with passages requiring focus to parse and fully appreciate the ideas presented therein; I’d like to go through it again with a pencil and annotate lines I find particularly striking. The book also features a second essay dissecting the divide between the literary-artistic and the scientific, which was an interesting read following the first essay. This book was also a good example of why I find a page goal much more representative of my reading habits than a book goal; this counted as a whole book read, despite only being 64 smaller-than-average pages.